Battle of the Beach: When Gales Blew Sand into His Garden, This Pensioner Planned to Shovel It Back - Until He Was Threatened With Jail
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By LIZ HULL A PENSIONER has been threatened with prison or a Pounds 50,000 fine if he takes windblown sand back to the beach where it came from. Arthur Bulmer's seafront garden became carpeted after a week of storms swept tons of sand from the beach across the road.
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The 17th century punishment for sex   crimes was public humiliation and 1930s Britons pretended to be   drunk so they could get away with sex on the beach.
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By AMELIA A. HART and MARY HURST  FERNANDINA BEACH - The sun had risen only an hour earlier June 13, but Paul Clark already was hard at work on his hands and knees digging in the sand while his wife, Loretta, stood watching carefully.
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Magistrates allowed Garry Weddell to keep his freedom in spite of a judge's warning, papers reveal
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DAVENPORT, Iowa - Testimony began Tuesday against a 76-year-old man accused of beating his 81-year-old neighbor with a hammer after she refused to give him gambling money.  Richard Edison Johnson is charged with attempted murder and willful injury.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. - A Savannah man went to jail this weekend for impersonating a sheriff's deputy so he could go bowling. Jeffrey Eugene Ferguson, 46, pulled up to a gate at Hunter Army Airfield on Saturday and showed a guard a driver's license that was cracked in half, police said.
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By ANN SANNER  WASHINGTON - A 59-year-old man was sentenced Monday to 8 1/2 years in prison on charges stemming from his use of stolen identities in an attempt to acquire more than $100,000 in payments intended for victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
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SAN ANTONIO, Angola -- As Antonio Cambanda dug into the dry, red dirt before him, he had the look of an unusually intense and wary gardener. He clipped weeds, softened the soil with water, and then, with a short-handled shovel, delicately scraped.
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STAMFORD, Conn. - Perhaps it's just a seasonal affliction, but a man has been arrested in what was described as a "leaf rage" incident.  Michael Peters, 67, became angry when city employees told him they would not remove leaves from his property, police said.
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Failed state plus expertise plus insurgency equals... As soon as 63-year old Russell Defreitas was arrested in early June for an alleged plot to destroy JFK through fuel explosions, terror beat journalists couldn't resist their favorite hobby: telling stories about how everything in the US is at risk. The description "elderly patsy" immediately came to mind when eyeballing Defreitas, but AP described him, with no apparent sense of humor, as an "accused mastermind." "Unthinkable devastation" would have resulted, had his plan not been nipped in the bud.â¦
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By Martin Shipton  An end to offshore sand dredging could lead to quarrying in some of Wales's most beautiful landscapes, environmentalists have been warned.
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Waves and sharks aren't the only dangers at the beach. More than two dozen young people have been killed over the last decade when sand holes collapsed on them, report father-and-son doctors who have made warning of the risk their personal campaign.
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British man held in GuantÃ¡namo Bay launches civil action over tactics used to gather intelligence.
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By CAMILLE BAINS  VANCOUVER (CP) - An elderly environmentalist who has already spent more than two years in jail for anti-logging protests was handed a 10-month sentence for criminal contempt of court Monday.
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Two friends of detained Orioles pitcher Sidney Ponson who escaped jail last week have been recaptured, and police are continuing an investigation into allegations that Ponson punched a judge on Christmas Day at an Aruba beach.
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DAVENPORT, Iowa - An elderly man was convicted Wednesday of trying to kill his 81-year-old neighbor with a hammer. Richard Edison Johnson, 76, faces a mandatory 25-year prison sentence after a jury took less than an hour to find him guilty of attempted murder and willful injury.
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The 17th century punishment for sex crimes was public humiliation and 1930s Britons pretended to be drunk so they could get away with sex on the beach.