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Police in Albany, Ga., were alerted to a burglary by a newspaper delivery man at 4:30 a.m. July 7. The delivery man saw that a store had been broken into. Police found that the glass front door had been smashed with a rock, and only toothpaste and deodorant stolen. Video tape shows the burglary occurred at about 2:30 a.m.
The Daily News Tribune, Needham, Mass., will redesign and convert to a twice-weekly publication as of Aug. 31, renaming itself the Waltham News Tribune and focusing coverage on that city, but remaining based in Needham. Now a five-day paper, the GateHouse Media publication will reach homes and news stands on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Having just made an early-morning delivery on July 4, a newspaper van left the road between Napier and Wairoa, New Zealand, and plunged down a 100-foot a bank. Police were called when the driver failed to make subsequent deliveries. In fact, he had walked away from the accident and made his way home to Napier without notifying emergency services.
Police charged a Charlotte, N.C., man in connection with a shooting that targeted a carrier for The Charlotte Observer, according to a July 7 report in the Salisbury (N.C.) Post. Salisbury Deputy Police Chief Steve Whitley said a woman delivering newspapers was fired at around 2:00 Tuesday morning. The carrier, not immediately identified, was not injured but her vehicle was struck four times, with one bullet knocking out the rear window.
Auburn, Calif., Police Chief Valerie Harris credited a local newspaper carrier making her deliveries with reporting a fire just before 4 a.m. Sunday. Authorities believe the burned front deck was the work of an arsonist using fireworks, according to a report by News10/KXTV, in Sacramento. Firefighters and police quickly extinguished the fire. The residents were not at home and there were no injuries.
The Evansville Courier & Press reported that a newspaper carrier alerted police one of two almost identical early-morning burglaries of stores in the Indiana city.
Groupon, a shopping Website that offers daily deals on local goods, services and events across the Americas and Europe, signed an agreement to distribute exclusive content to McClatchy Co. Websites in 28 markets. Visitors to McClatchy websites will see exclusive Groupon deals not available on Groupon.com. Daily Groupon deals will launch first in McClatchy's Sacramento and Kansas City markets, with others following over the next few months.
The ?1 For All? advertising campaign promoting the value of First Amendment freedoms launched Thursday -- and if organizers get their wish it won?t end for literally decades to come.
Suffolk, Va., police say a grand jury indicted 19-year-old Christopher Jonta Artis last week in the fatal shooting of a Virginian-Pilot newspaper carrier.
Things took a strange turn for a newspaper carrier for the Kitsap Sun in Bremerton, Wash., early Tuesday when her van was stolen and the driver led police on a 14-mile chase.
Local police told the Lincoln (Neb.) Journal Star that one of its carriers tipped them to a ring of thieves. Four days later, Janesville, Wis., police were investigating two early-morning burglaries thanks to an observant carrier on the city's west side.
Physical media is supposed to be O-V-E-R in both music and information -- and here comes Prince deciding to release his upcoming CD, ?Something Big 4 20ten,? through the printed Belgium newspaper Het Nieuwsblad on July 10.
The Cuyahoga Falls (Ohio) News-Press reported June 27 that a local 20-year-old man has pled guilty to charges related to an accident that fractured a newspaper carrier's spine and leg bones in February. John C. Lees is to be sentenced July 19 for aggravated vehicular assault, a felony, and Operating a Vehicle under Influence, a misdemeanor, according to a county prosecutor's spokesperson.
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