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Animals offer finals week stress relief at Montana State

BOZEMAN, Mont.

A donkey named Oliver joined several therapy dogs offering stress relief during finals week at Montana State University in Bozeman.

The 8-year-old brown and white donkey was standing inside the front entrance of the university library last week. Owner Stephanie Bar tells the Bozeman Daily Chronicle that since it was Oliver’s first time at MSU, she wanted to make sure he got a lot of attention.

Students petted Oliver, hugged him and took selfies.

In another part of the library, students sat on the floor and played with dogs provided by volunteers with Intermountain Therapy Animals.

Sierra Bosley says she looks forward to seeing the dogs at the end of each semester.

Foul-smelling water floods Penn Station concourse

NEW YORK

Commuters were holding their noses when foul-smelling water rained from the ceiling at New York’s Penn Station.

Witness video May 3 showed water overflowing from trash receptacles arranged in a roped-off area in the Long Island Rail Road concourse. Workers outside a restaurant feverishly mopped against the encroaching flood.

WNBC reports the liquid contained sewage from a skyscraper above the station.

The management company said only that a pipe had leaked and the situation was under control in the afternoon. Vornado Realty Trust apologized and said the mess would be cleaned up before the evening rush hour. Service was not affected.

Deputies help barefoot man who ends up being runaway inmate

SANTA FE, N.M.

Sheriff’s deputies had spotted a man walking barefoot down a New Mexico road with his feet full of cactus needles, so they offered him a ride.

Turns out, the man had escaped from the state penitentiary by walking out the front door. So instead of a homeless shelter, the deputies put him back behind bars. The deputies found 30-year-old Raymond Lopez to be the runaway inmate pictured in manhunt flyers.

Lopez was booked at the county jail on charges of escape and concealing identity.

Associated Press