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Student who missed graduation over subway delay gets diploma

NEW YORK

A nursing student who celebrated a makeshift graduation on a New York City subway train after a train breakdown made him miss the actual ceremony has finally received his diploma.

Hunter College President Jennifer Raab and nursing school Dean Gail McCain presented Jerich Alcantara with his diploma Thursday. He says he is enjoying his brief moment in the spotlight and said he was happy to see things end on a positive note.

Alcantara was on his way to commencement May 30 when his subway train stalled. Passengers waited an hour and a half for a rescue train.

Friends, family members and strangers threw Alcantara an impromptu ceremony while they waited.

Alcantara says he still doesn’t have a nursing job lined up, but is preparing for his licensing exam.

Cops: Man upset about onions in food threatens Pittsburgh eatery owner

PITTSBURGH

A Michigan man, apparently upset because his food included onions, is jailed on charges he made drunken threats to shoot the owner of a Pittsburgh restaurant before exposing himself.

Forty-three-year-old Yuba Sharma, of Rochester, remained in the Allegheny County Jail on Thursday on charges of terroristic threats, indecent exposure, public drunkenness and resisting arrest.

Police say Sharma ate at All Indiana restaurant Monday night and then returned Tuesday to rant and complain about the onions.

The owner told police Sharma threatened to shoot him, so he called police. That’s when Sharma – confronted by the restaurant owner and another employee – pulled down his pants and exposed himself.

Police say Sharma resisted arrest and had to be lifted and carried to a police cruiser.

Book returned more than 50 years overdue

WEST HARTFORD, Conn.

A book has found its way back to a Connecticut library – more than 50 years overdue.

Staff members at the Noah Webster Library in West Hartford say they don’t know who returned the copy of W.O. Mitchell’s “Who Has Seen The Wind.”

The book was returned with a yellow sticky note reading, “Sorry it has taken so long.” It originally was due back Sept. 29, 1965.

Associated Press