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Police K-9 Ranger following in father Jozek’s paw prints

ELLWOOD CITY, Pa.

A Pennsylvania police officer is following in his retired father’s footsteps – all four of them.

The New Castle News says a 3-year-old German shepherd named Ranger is picking up where his father, 11-year-old Jozek, left off. Ranger will be a K-9 officer with the police department in Ellwood City, a borough 35 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.

Jozek retired his badge Monday. He has assisted in 64 apprehensions, 43 building searches, 174 drug searches and dozens of other tasks and demonstrations since joining the police force in 2007. The dog is responsible for seizing illegal drugs, nearly $30,000 in cash, five vehicles and 14 illegal guns.

K-9 handler Sgt. Michael McBride bred Jozek to keep the K-9 program alive and to get a free replacement for him.

Ranger was born in July 2012.

Nobody hurt when turkey crashes through bus window

PITTSBURGH

Nobody was hurt when a transit bus stuffed with Pittsburgh-bound commuters was rammed by a wild turkey, which smashed through the windshield.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports the Port Authority of Allegheny County bus was coming from Plum, a suburb east of the city, when the turkey crashed into the vehicle on the city’s Martin Luther King Jr. East Busway about 6:40 a.m. Wednesday.

Transit spokesman Adam Brandolph says the bus driver kept the passengers calm and opened the door so the turkey could walk off the bus.

Passengers were put on another bus, and the damaged vehicle was taken in for repairs.

Gator foot proves to be unlucky charm for Florida driver

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.

Hanging an alligator foot from a dashboard apparently is not a good-luck charm.

A Florida driver learned that the hard way when he recently was stopped in a Palm Beach County wildlife management area by two Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers who were checking for permits.

The commission says in a news release the officers noticed alligator parts scattered throughout the truck, including a foot sticking out of the dashboard.

After first denying it, the driver admitted that he had killed the gator a few days earlier out of season and without a permit. He was cited. His name was not released.

Associated Press