News digest
Friday, October 10, 2008 11:25 AM PDT
GOOD AFTERNOON
OREGON
Stolen truck recovered after 22 years
SALEM (AP) — The owner of a pickup truck stolen in 1986 is finally getting his customized black, low-rider Chevy back.
Jack Nunnellee says it was the first vehicle he ever bought.
And he says he’ll gladly paid for it again. Right now, it’s the property of the insurance company that paid a claim at the time.
The truck is valued at about $5,000 — about what Nunnellee paid for it 1977 Chevy when he was 18. Inflation would make it considerably cheaper this time around.
Ore. man dies after roommate brawl,
officials say
PORTLAND (AP) — Law enforcement officials say a Hood River County man died after he and his roommate stabbed each other.
The roommate was hospitalized with multiple wounds.
The names were not immediately released.
Investigators describe the man who died as middle-age and from Odell.
IDAHO
N. Idaho conductor sues railroad company
COEUR d’ALENE (AP) — The conductor of a train that killed a northern Idaho man last year is suing the railroad company and the Idaho Transportation Department for negligence that he says contributed to the accident.
Gabriel Giraud says the train crossing where 61-year-old Gary Gibson was struck by the locomotive and killed instantly did not meet industry or federal standards.
STRANGE AMERICA
Drunken man finds his way home — just not his home
GAITHERSBURG, Md. (AP) — Unlike Goldilocks, a man who stumbled into the wrong suburban Washington, D.C., home after drinking too much found the bed there just right.
Bob and Joanne Breiner returned home from a night out to find a man with a white beard nestled in their bed, sound asleep.
Once police showed up and the drunken stranger realized what had happened, he apologized profusely and complimented the couple on their comfortable bed.
