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HARTFORD, Conn., Oct. 24 (UPI) -- A Connecticut lawmaker says he wants to change the traditional Oct. 31 date of Halloween to the last Saturday of the month for safety and other reasons. The change would make the holiday easier for working parents, safer for trick-or-treaters and would boost the economy as well, state Rep. Tim Larson said. "Halloween is [a] fun night for the whole family, but not so much when you have to race home from work, get the kids ready for trick or treating, welcome the neighborhood children, and then try to get everyone to bed for...

New York police said they had nabbed 13 flashers and gropers in a recent sting operation on the city subway system that used undercover policewomen as bait. "We hope there'll be deterrent value for potential perpetrators who recognise their victim may be a police officer," said Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne. The two-day sting mission, dubbed "Operation Exposure," was actually carried out in May in response to increased complaints from women commuters of men behaving lewdly on the subway network. The sting involved a number of female police officers who posed as businesswomen and rode the trains during rush hour. The...

Church “Brought Up to Speed” by Janitor Peru, Indiana : A 31 year-old church janitor has been arrested on charges of manufacturing methamphetamines , manufacturing drugs within 1000’ of a youth center,possession of drug precursors,possession of stolen property,and maintaining a common nuisance. Unfortunately, the defendant was allegedly using the well-ventilated attic of the church he worked for to brew his batches , and was selling the product out of his basement apartment in (you guessed it) the same church. ( Imagine having to include THAT piece of news in the weekly sermon ! ) Berlin : Police in the city...

A 21-year-old policeman dressed as a high school girl in uniform including a miniskirt has trapped a flasher in Japan, police said yesterday. The unidentified policeman in Ube City, 800km south-west of Tokyo, had been operating in not exactly plain clothes since late October after more than 20 girls were molested or encountered a flasher this year. "As our enhanced patrolling failed to catch the culprit, we decided to arrest him red-handed by disguising a policeman as a woman," a Ube police spokesman said. The young policeman chosen for the task "looked good in the borrowed school uniform without a...

EASTON -- In the end, the prosecution's case didn't measure up to the defense strategy of Robert M. Peters Sr. The 47-year-old locksmith from Bangor was acquitted of indecent exposure after less than an hour of jury deliberations Tuesday. Peters went to great lengths to prove his innocence. His accuser said she was chatting with Peters at her Bethlehem home after he had installed a lock on June 12, 2002. She said Peters made an off-color remark about her beauty as they sat in her living room, and she saw three inches of his erect penis sticking beyond the bottom...