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BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – Two men in a pickup truck with “stolen tag” written on a piece of cardboard to serve as a license plate were arrested in connection with multiple burglaries in Brevard County, according to sheriff’s officials. Anthony Sosa, 31, and Chad Doulette, 36, were taken into custody Thursday and face multiple charges of grand theft and burglary. According to a probable cause affidavit, the pickup was spotted Wednesday at several houses on Tropical Trail on Merritt Island, where the burglaries occurred. The Brevard County Sheriff’s Office said jewelry worth thousands of dollars and a handgun were stolen...

The infamous "anti-sex" cardboard beds Olympic athletes slept on in the Games village will find a new home. Osaka governor Hirofumi Yoshimura told media on Saturday (Sept11) that about 800 "high quality beds" built for Olympians will be reused at a temporary facility in the Japanese prefecture for Covid-19 patients. According to media reports in Japan, the beds were designed to support people up to 200 kilograms in weight. A Japanese company, Airweave, created the beds with cardboard material so as to be able to recycle them in the future. Prior to the Olympics, rumours were swirling on social media...

Mets fans may not be able to attend any games this year, but they can still have a presence once the season kicks off next Friday at Citi Field. The team is selling cardboard cutouts of fans in the stands for $86 each, and a significant amount of them have taken the Mets up on the offer. “Obviously, we want to be there in person,” Michael Ammirabile, a season-ticket holder who attends roughly 10 games a year, said in a phone interview. “I got me and my 7-year-old son in there. I guess this is the best thing at this...

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Jeremy Trentelman’s cardboard fort for his kids came with windows, trap doors and a green slide. Then the city of Ogden, Utah, gave him 15 days to take it down. With the help of their kids Max, 3, and Story, 2, Trentelman and his wife, Dee, cut and taped the cardboard to build two towers, trap doors, tunnels, and a slide. They built the whole thing last week with the help of their friend, Byron Owens, and his two kids Satoria and Oliver in Ogden, Utah. His friend’s daughter also wrote a sign on the door of the fort reading,...

Sbarro has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization for the second time in just three years as the pizza chain struggles to turn its business around amid a drop in traffic at shopping mall food courts. The bankruptcy filing on Monday comes after the company shuttered 155 of its U.S. locations last month. The Melville, N.Y., company still has about 800 locations globally, half of those in North America. The pizza chain isn’t alone in hurting from the decline in traffic at shopping malls. Earlier this year, the owner of Hot Dot on a Stick also filed for bankruptcy protection,...

Cop cardboard cutout used to cut crime at Massachusetts transportation hub Published August 06, 2013 | Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The burly officer watching over the bike racks at a Boston-area transportation hub is a real stiff. As part of an effort to cut crime at the Alewife MBTA subway and bus station in Cambridge, transit police placed a cardboard cutout of a police officer in the bicycle cage. Hundreds of people use the racks daily. Deputy Chief Robert Lenehan says the fake cop, along with video cameras and a new lock, has cut bike thefts by 67 percent.

This is a 6 minute video that highlights Izhar Gafni, 50, an expert in designing automated mass-production lines, and a cycling enthusiast who for years toyed with an idea of making a bicycle from cardboard. He told Reuters during a recent demonstration that after much trial and error, his latest prototype has now proven itself and mass production will begin in a few months. The projected price is $20 and no metal parts will be used. More info: http://www.technologicvehicles.com/en/actualite-mobilite-verte/1948/video-un-...

Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama skipped a "Save the Children" benefit concert in Oslo, Norway, Thursday, and a cardboard cutout of the American president was placed on stage in his absence.

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He is said to work 16 hours a day and and was unable to get a date during the presidential campaign. But now Barack Obama's 27-year-old speechwriter, Jon Favreau, is dating a former Maxim model and actress who is working with him at the White House. Ali Campoverdi stripped off for Maxim in 2004 - and told the men's magazine that she was looking for a man who was 'passionate' about something. Ms Campoverdi is now an aide to a White House deputy chief of staff, American media outlets said. But she has previously appeared American reality shows - including...

ABC News' Matthew Jaffe Reports: In an unexpected face-to-face encounter, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, Sunday boarded the press plane of Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., leading to a hostile mid-air confrontation between the two rivals. "Hey John," said Biden when he encountered a life-size cardboard cut-out of the Republican nominee late in his flight from Wilmington, Del., to Kalispell, Mont.

<p>McDonald's french fries are now trans-fat-free in all its restaurants in the United States and Canada, the fast-food restaurant chain said Thursday.</p> <p>McDonald's has lagged other restaurant operators in switching over to a zero-trans-fat cooking oil out of worries it would compromise the taste of its trademark fries. It has been under increasing pressure from consumer advocates and some public officials to make the change.</p>

Chinese reporter accused of fabricating story held on unclear charges By CPJ Jul 23, 2007 - 11:28:22 PM New York, July 23, 2007―The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for greater transparency in the arrest of a Chinese reporter accused of fabricating news. Police arrested Beijing TV reporter Zi Beijia last week and are holding him in criminal custody following accusations that he faked a report on contaminated steamed buns, according to state news reports. "Whether or not Zi Beijia was guilty of fabricating the report, authorities owe it to him and to the public to deal transparently with this case...

BEIJING - A freelance reporter for a Beijing television station has been detained for faking a hidden camera report about street vendors who used chemical-soaked cardboard to fill meat buns, local media said. The report came amid real food scares involving toxic fish, tainted pork and egg yolks colored with a cancer-causing dye that have harmed China's reputation as an exporter and alarmed people at home. The story, allegedly shot with a hidden camera, was first broadcast on Beijing Television's Life Channel on July 8 and then again on China Central Television last week. It created a buzz on the...

China reporter held for fake cardboard-in-buns story 19 Jul 2007 01:57:16 GMT Source: Reuters BEIJING, July 19 (Reuters) - Beijing police have detained a television reporter for fabricating an investigative story about steamed buns stuffed with cardboard at a time when China's food safety is under intense international scrutiny. A report directed by Beijing TV and played on state-run national broadcaster China Central Television last Thursday said an unlicensed snack vendor in eastern Beijing was selling steamed dumplings stuffed with cardboard soaked in caustic soda and seasoned with pork flavouring. Beijing authorities said investigations had found that an employee surnamed...

Chopped cardboard, softened in an industrial chemical and made tasty with pork flavoring, is a main ingredient in batches of steamed buns sold in a Beijing neighborhood, state television said. The report, aired late Wednesday on China Central Television, highlights the country's perennial problems with food safety despite continuing government efforts to improve the situation. Countless small, often illegally run operations exist across China and make money cutting corners by using inexpensive ingredients or unsavory substitutes. They are almost impossible to regulate. China Central Television's undercover investigation report features the shirtless, shorts-clad maker of the buns - called baozi -...

Eatery closed for selling cardboard-stuffed buns Created: 2007-7-12 12:00:26 Author:Alice Gu BEIJING authorities yesterday closed a dim-sum restaurant that sold steamed cardboard-stuffed buns, Beijing Times reported today. The cardboard was a substitute for pork. The restaurant owner fled and is wanted for questioning. The raid came after the restaurant in Beijing's Chaoyang District was reviewed by a local TV station a few days earlier. The stuffing of the bun was made of cardboard and pork fat, said the TV program. The recipe went like this: Cardboard was soaked in water and an industrial-use caustic soda, a poisonous chemical, was added....

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ATLANTA, March 30 (Reuters) - The chief executive of home improvement retailer Lowe's Cos. (nyse: LOW - news - people) said on Tuesday that he does not expect plywood prices, which are up more than 100 percent in the past year, to decrease. "I don't think you'll see plywood prices come back down," Robert Tillman told a New York consumer conference in remarks carried over the Internet. "The supply is now pretty well managed. There's not an oversupply. There are fewer manufacturers." Tillman said prices of other wood may fluctuate. Lumber prices, specifically plywood and other structural panels used in...