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GOOD MORNING Farm boss charged with theft of crops PERU (AP) — Police say the manager of a northern Indiana farm has been charged with stealing more than $63,000 in crop profits. State police say the owner of the Miami County farm had promoted the 33-year-old Peru man to manager after her husband died earlier this year. He and his girlfriend are then charged with going on a spending spree, buying furniture, a vehicle, guns and hunting equipment. Both face felony theft charges.
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Owner of wandering cattle found BY MATT GETTS mgetts@kpcmedia.com
WATERLOO — The owner of two “on-the-lamb” DeKalb County cattle has come forward, but it won’t exactly lead to a happy ending for the animals themselves. Since the first of November, the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department had been chasing down
reports of two loose black Angus cattle — one of them a steer with horns — in the area of C.R. 61 between C.R. 4 and C.R. 12 and near the intersection of C.R. 35 and C.R. 12. A story about the search for the animals’ owner appeared in our Thanksgiving/Friday combined special edition.
Shortly after the story hit the streets, the owner of the animals contacted a property owner where the animals had been spotted in the area of C.R. 14 and C.R. 35. “The owner came by his house and gave permission to harvest them,” said Capt. Michael Keesler of the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department. The property owner
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Officials say three tried to dig out of jail MARTINSVILLE (AP) — Authorities say three inmates tried to escape from a central Indiana jail by digging a hole through the wall of their cell. Morgan County Jail officers say they heard noise coming from the cell and found a shallow 6-inch diameter hole in a wall next to an unsecured administration area of the jail in Martinsville.
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Roxie Barron and MacKenzie Davis, employees at Legacy’s Hallmark Gold Crown store in Auburn, assist a customer with a purchase Friday
afternoon. The store reported more traffic Friday than on Black Friday in 2012.
Local stores report strong sales FROM STAFF REPORTS
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AUBURN — DeKalb County retailers are optimistic for a busy holiday shopping season, judging by business they experienced on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. “It’s been kind of crazy,” said Karen Butler, owner of Legacy’s Hallmark Gold Crown store in Auburn Plaza. “We’re not the typical Black Friday store. We’re kind of the last-minute store, but today has been a little different. We’ve had more traffic than last year.” Butler said the store’s
Christmas ornaments always are popular. Shoppers also focused on gift purchases Friday, Butler said. “It’s like somebody turned the lights on,” Butler added. Lori Miller, manager at Glick’s in Auburn, also reported brisk trade. “It’s been extremely busy all week,” Miller said. Special sales began Wednesday, and the store opened at 6 a.m. Friday. Glick sent a 50-percent-off coupon to preferred customers Monday, in addition to offering the coupon, valid for Friday only, in Thursday’s edition of The Star
“It’s like somebody turned the lights on.” Karen Butler Auburn store owner
• newspaper. The store will continue to offer coupons throughout the holiday shopping season. “It’s been a very good start,” SEE STORES, PAGE A7
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The holiday shopping season started as a marathon, not a sprint. More than a dozen major U.S. retailers stayed open for 24 hours or more on Thanksgiving Day through Black Friday, and crowds formed early and often over the two days. About 15,000 people waited for the flagship Macy’s in New York to open at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving. Long checkout lines formed at the Target in Colma, Calif., on Friday morning. And by the time Jessica Astalos was leaving North Point Mall in Alpharetta, Ga., after a six-hour buying binge that started on Thanksgiving, another wave of shoppers was coming in about 5:30 a.m. on Friday. “You just have to be out in the midst of all of it,” said Ricki Moss, who hit stores near Portland, Ore., at 5:30 a.m. on Friday. “It’s exciting.” This year may cement the transformation of the start of the holiday shopping season into a two-day affair. For nearly a decade, Black Friday had been the official start of the shopping season between Thanksgiving and Christmas. It was originally named Black Friday because it was when retailers turned a profit, or moved out of the red and into the black.
U.S. commander apologizes for Afghan airstrike
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notified Keesler at 10:57 a.m. Thursday. Keesler did not know if the cattle were still at large Friday. The cattle are a potential safety hazard, Keesler said. They have been reported in roadways by motorists, and a run-in with the large animals could seriously damage a car and perhaps injure the occupants.
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Waterloo charity’s Thanksgiving meal Chloe Rayle, 11, of Garrett helps serve a Thanksgiving meal Thursday at the Waterloo Depot. To her right are her mother, Tricia, sister, Claire, and father, Chad. The Rayles were among 25 volunteers who prepared and served the first community Thanksgiving meal by Warm A Heart, a Waterloo-based
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charity formed earlier this year. Warm A Heart operates a food pantry at 265 N. Wayne St. in downtown Waterloo that is open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30-7 p.m. It provides food to 80 families each week and serves 150-170 meals each week, said its president, Diane Reynolds.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan apologized to President Hamid Karzai for a drone strike that killed a child and NATO promised an investigation Friday as rising tensions threatened efforts to persuade the Afghan leader to sign a long-delayed security agreement. Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford called Karzai late Thursday to express “deep regrets for the incident and any civilian casualties,” the commander’s spokesman said. Karzai condemned the attack, which also wounded two women earlier Thursday, and said all airstrikes and foreign raids on Afghan homes must stop if the United States expects him to sign the pact that would allow thousands of Americans to stay in the country beyond a 2014 withdrawal deadline. “This attack shows that American forces do not respect the safety of the Afghan people in their homes,” Karzai said in a Dari-language statement on his website. The two governments have agreed on a draft bilateral security agreement and it was approved by a consultative Afghan council known as a Loya Jirga. But Karzai shocked the assembly and the Americans when he announced he would not sign the deal but would instead leave that up to his successor following April 5 elections.
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