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4700 Nelson Brogdon Blvd, Ste 210 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities in South Florida say a man is facing charges after he was seen in a photo on Facebook holding a judge’s stolen nameplate.

Twenty-one-year-old Steven Mulhall was arrested Thurs-day on violation of probation charges.

Broward County Sheriff Al Lamberti told the South Flor-ida Sun-Sentinel (http://sun-sent.nl/w4aQxO ) Mulhall pried the $40 nameplate from the courtroom door of Bro-ward Circuit Judge Michael Orlando. He says Mulhall has multiple petty theft convic-tions and now faces felony charges.

Arrest reports show the name-plate was stolen last month. Authorities received a tip that Mulhall took the nameplate and that the picture could be found on his girlfriend’s Face-book page.

The nameplate will be re-turned to the judge.

A phone number wasn’t avail-able for Mulhall.___

Information from: South Flor-ida Sun Sentinel, http://www.sun sentinel.com

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COMMERCE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — An Oakland County wom-an says she’s become a prisoner on her own property, stalked and ha-rassed by a 25-pound turkey.

Edna Geisler calls the foul bird “Godzilla.” The 69-year-old told the Detroit Free Press (http://on.freep.com/xzbbJI ) that the turkey wanders near her Commerce Township prop-erty each day from nearby woods. She recently couldn’t get to her front door after a trip to the grocery store.

“I have to go to the post office at 6 o’clock in the morning to avoid him,” said Geisler, who has been bumped and clawed.

She has tried changing her sched-ule but this turkey is no dummy. A friend, Rick Reid, said the turkey went after him, too, when he opened the door on his minivan.

“He tried to come right in the door,” Reid said. “He bit me on the elbow.”

Indeed, a video posted online by the Free Press shows Godzilla roam-ing the grounds like they’re his own. State wildlife expert Tim Payne said adult turkeys are known to ag-gressively defend their territory, al-though most fear people.

“This bird has probably attacked, and the person retreats,” said Payne of the Department of Natural Re-sources. “What it tells the bird is, ‘What I’m doing is good.’ It reinforces the ag-gressive behavior.”

Payne suggested Geisler open a large umbrella to drive the turkey back to the woods.

“Make some runs at the bird and become the aggressor,” he said. “The bird needs to learn who’s the boss.”

Geisler wants the turkey gone by summer so she can work in her gar-den. The hunting season opens in April.

“Every time I eat turkey I smile,” she said. “I’d like to do that to him.”

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MANUEL VALDES,Associated PressSEATTLE (AP) — Facebook’s automatic efforts to connect users through “friends” they may know recently led two Washing-ton women to find out they were married to the same man, at the same time.

That led to the man, corrections officer Alan L. O’Neill, being slapped with big-amy charges.

According to charging documents filed Thursday, O’Neill married a woman in 2001, moved out in 2009, changed his name and remarried without divorcing her. The first wife first noticed O’Neill had moved on to another woman when Facebook suggested the friendship con-nection to wife No. 2 under the “People You May Know” feature.

“Wife No. 1 went to wife No. 2’s page and saw a picture of her and her husband with a wedding cake,” Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist told The As-sociated Press.

Wife No. 1 then called the defendant’s mother.

“An hour later the defendant arrived at (Wife No. 1’s) apartment, and she asked

him several times if they were divorced,” court records show. “The defendant said, ‘No, we are still married.’”

Neither O’Neill nor his first wife had filed for divorce, according to charging docu-ments. The name change came in Decem-ber, and later that month he married his second wife.

O’Neill allegedly told wife No. 1 not to tell anybody about his dual marriages, that he would fix it, the documents state. But wife No. 1 alerted authorities.

“Facebook is now a place where people discover things about each other they end up reporting to law enforcement,” Lindquist said.

Athima Chansanchai, a freelance jour-nalist who writes about social media, said Facebook over the years has played a role in both creating relationships and destroying them.

“It’s just the latest vessel by which people can stray if they want to,” she said.

O’Neill, 41, was previously known as Alan Fulk. He has worked as a Pierce County corrections officer for five years,

sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said.

He was placed on administrative leave af-ter prosecutors charged him Thursday. He could face up to a year in jail if convicted.

O’Neill and his first wife had issues that went back to 2009. In 2010, his first wife was arrested after an altercation with the woman who later became the second wife.

A Facebook message to wife No. 1 was not immediately returned. There was no immediate phone number available for O’Neill and his second wife.

Lindquist said it’s unclear why O’Neill and wife No. 1 didn’t go through the di-vorce.

“Every few years we see one of these (big-amy) cases,” he added.

O’Neill is free, but due in court later this month, which is standard procedure for non-violent crimes, Lindquist said.

“About the only danger he would pose is marrying a third woman,” he said.


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PIGLET FOUND RUNNING AROUND HAWAII HOTEL LOBBY HONOLULU (AP) — Guests at a hotel near Honolulu’s airport found a suckling pig in the lobby, but it wasn’t on the menu of the luau.

They called the Hawaiian Humane Society last week, when a 5-week-old female pig was found running around the lobby. It was unclear how the piglet ended up there.

Humane society spokeswoman Tasha Tanimoto says the pig is healthy and has been named Pukalani. She will be available for adoption once she’s a little older. Tanimoto says the piglet is being bottle-fed by a volunteer.

Humane society officials aren’t sure of the pig’s breed, but a veterinarian sus-pects she will grow to be quite large.

Pukalani has been getting attention on the humane society’s Facebook page, where a duck is also advertised for adoption.


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zz PHOENIX (AP) — A large, fleet-ing flash of light that appeared in the darkened skies over the northwestern edge of metropolitan Phoenix remains a mystery.

The ball of light that looked like an ex-plosion was captured by a traffic cam-era on Interstate 17 around 4:45 a.m. Thursday and happened to be broad-cast by KSAZ-TV when the station showed footage of the roadway during a report on the morning’s commute.

The two electric utilities that serve met-ro Phoenix say they didn’t have any re-ports of electric transformer explosions that might explain the flash.

Damon Gross, a spokesman for Arizo-na Public Service, says a blown fuse on a transformer can produce a flash, but he said the utility had no such report Thursday morning.

“It’s a mystery to us as well. I can’t even offer a guess,” said Doug Nintzel, a spokesman for the Arizona Depart-ment of Transportation.

Charlotte Dewey, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Phoe-nix, says there was no weather activity that might explain the flash.

Messages left for officials at nearby Luke Air Force Base weren’t immedi-ately returned Friday afternoon.

KSAZ is asking viewers to come for-ward if they have any information about the mysterious flash.

In 1997, dozens of people saw lights in a V-formation over Phoenix, a mystery that was captured on videotape and spurred calls for a government investi-gation.


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