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LA County girl, 13, freed after getting stuck in chimney

SANTA CLARITA, Calif.

Los Angeles County firefighters freed a 13-year-old girl who was stuck in a chimney at a home.

Officials say crews responded Tuesday night and freed the girl in about 15 minutes. She was taken to a hospital to be examined.

There was no immediate word on her condition or how she got stuck in the chimney of the suburban LA home.

City News Service says it was the second time in less than a week that someone became stuck in a chimney in LA County.

A woman who locked herself out of her Pomona home Friday decided to use the chimney to get inside. She ended up stuck for about five hours before a neighbor heard her cries.

She eventually was freed by firefighters and suffered only dehydration.

Pennsylvania ‘street singer’ pleads to disorderly conduct

ALLENTOWN, Pa.

A man known to police for singing the Beach Boys’ song “Barbara Ann” loudly as he walks through an eastern Pennsylvania city has pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct for two other alleged instances of nuisance behavior.

The (Allentown) Morning Call reports 61-year-old James Ochse disputes the charges. But he entered the pleas Tuesday anyway, hoping to shorten his probation for five previous citations and leave Allentown, where he says police have a “vendetta.”

In February, police say Ochse jumped on the hood of a moving car while jaywalking and banged on the windshield with a flashlight. Oches denies that, but police say it was captured by surveillance video. In April, he purportedly yelled obscenities at people waiting to buy tickets to an Elton John concert at PPL Center.

Huge peach, scorned by some, is plucked from Atlanta skyline

ATLANTA

To some, the metal tower supporting a giant peach atop an Atlanta building was about as popular as a freeway-snarling ice storm.

It was so unpopular that when it was removed recently, employees at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers building celebrated by drinking champagne.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the peach was erected in 1994, shortly before Atlanta hosted the 1996 Olympic Games.

Max Mount Jr., the local IBEW president, tells WABE Radio that employees hated the ugly peach.

Mount said the peach tower belonged to an ad agency, which leased the space. He said that when that lease expired recently, the IBEW wasted no time in plucking it from its perch.

Mount tells WSB-TV that IBEW employees even celebrated its removal by drinking champagne.

Associated Press