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| California town moves against Sriracha hot sauce plant Thursday, Apr 10, 2014 04:12 PM PDT  The small Southern California town of Irwindale has opened a new front in its battle against what it says is a pungent, tear-inducing odor from a chili processing factory owned by the makers of Sriracha-brand hot pepper sauce. The City Council voted 4-0 at a meeting on Wednesday night to authorize staff to prepare a resolution to declare the plant's peppery fumes a public nuisance, and giving Huy Fong Foods 90 days to remedy the situation. A fifth council member who lives within 500 feet of the plant abstained to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest. Huy Fong's red-colored Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce, sold in clear squeeze bottles with a green cap and trademark rooster logo, is one the top-selling condiments in the United States. Full Story | Top |
| Ohio man who harassed disabled kids to tote 'BULLY!' sign -judge Thursday, Apr 10, 2014 01:45 PM PDT By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - An Ohio man who called his neighbor "Monkey Mama" as she held her adopted, disabled African-American children, and has smeared dog feces on their wheelchair ramp, was ordered by a judge to carry an "I AM A BULLY!" sign on a busy street this weekend. Edmond Aviv, 62, who was accused of harassing his neighbor in the Cleveland suburb of South Euclid for more than a decade, pleaded no contest to fourth-degree disorderly conduct in March. Meting out his punishment, South Euclid Municipal Court Judge Gayle Williams-Byers sentenced Aviv to spend Sunday, April 13, on a heavily trafficked intersection with the placard, which must be "large enough for a normal person to see the sign from 25 feet away." The judge also sentenced Aviv to 15 days in jail, seven months' probation, 100 hours of community service, anger management classes and mental-health counseling, according to court records. Finally, he must publish in a local newspaper a letter of apology to Sandra Prugh, his neighbor of 15 years, the documents show. Full Story | Top |
| West Germany's Cold War ransoming of prisoners encouraged fraud: research Thursday, Apr 10, 2014 01:45 PM PDT By Monica Raymunt BERLIN (Reuters) - Former West Germany's decision to buy the freedom of political prisoners in the communist East during the early years of the Cold War may have encouraged fake ransoms demands and more arrests, according to new research. Between 1963 and 1989, West Germany paid to free more than 33,000 political prisoners from the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in exchange for around 3 billion deutsche marks' worth of goods that the East badly needed such as food and petroleum. But the ransom payments did not have the humanitarian effect the West had hoped, especially in the early years, author Jan Philipp Woelbern told Reuters in a telephone interview on Thursday. "On the one hand, of course the West Germans helped those prisoners," said Woelbern, who has just published a book on "Human trafficking or humanitarian actions? Full Story | Top |
| Father of Michigan sextuplets dies at 39 Thursday, Apr 10, 2014 10:05 AM PDT The father of Michigan sextuplets whose birth made headlines 10 years ago died of a heart attack after setting up a backyard trampoline, a relative said on Thursday. Ben Van Houten suffered a heart attack on Wednesday night in back of the family's home in Hamilton, Michigan, about 90 miles west of Lansing, his father-in-law Calvin Reimink said. Van Houten died in the hospital, he said. "He thought the sun rose and set on those kids," said Reimink, whose daughter, Amy, was married to Van Houten. Full Story | Top |
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