PORTLAND, Ore. — Police arrested a man Tuesday they say tried to bite an officer, jumped on a police car and licked a man’s face.
According to police, they were called to Southeast 9th Avenue and Sandy Boulevard a little after 3:30 p.m. on a report a man was assaulting a woman.
When police arrived, the man took off, climbed a tree, jumped on a police car and then fled into a restaurant. Read More...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal marshals fugitive task force has recaptured the second of two inmates who escaped from a Philadelphia prison earlier this month, a man who had been held on charges in four slayings, authorities said.
Ameen Hurst, 18, was taken into custody at about 8:30 a.m. Wednesday in west Philadelphia, according to Robert Clark, supervisory deputy of the U.S. Marshals Service in the eastern district of Pennsylvania. Authorities had been working with the family since Tuesday evening to have Hurst surrender, but several deadlines for that to happen had come and gone, Clark said. Read More...
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Officials say a grocery store in Pennsylvania has become the first supermarket since Prohibition to sell wine in the state.
A Giant Eagle store in suburban Pittsburgh began selling wine Friday. Only state-owned liquor stores or kiosks had been allowed to sell wine since the nationwide constitutional ban on alcohol that lasted from 1920 to 1933.
Under a new law, customers can buy up to 3 liters of wine to go from businesses that hold restaurant or hotel liquor licenses. Read More...
