Going hunting for drones
Deer Trail, Colo., is considering legislation that would create drone-hunting licenses and offer $100 bounties for each downed unmanned aerial vehicle. “We do not want drones in town,” said Philip Steel, who proposed the ordinance. “I do not believe in the idea of a surveillance society.” Steel says that even if his bill fails to pass the town board, he knows what he’ll do the first time he spots an unmanned aircraft hovering over Deer Trail. “I’m gonna shoot it down,” he said. “Ordinance or no.”
Tom Cruise's search for a girlfriend
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Tom Cruise is on the hunt for a young new girlfriend, said the National Enquirer. The 51-year-old actor has been feeling very lonely since his high-profile divorce from Katie Holmes last year, said a source, and is now seeking a 20-something looker who “will make him more relevant with younger audiences.” Cruise has recruited his 18-year-old son, Connor, a club DJ, to help him meet model types in trendy nightspots. But Cruise has failed to find any takers. “Tom’s stock as a great catch has plummeted,” said the source. “[Women] see Tom as controlling and, with his Scientology connection, just downright creepy.”
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A Tennessee man was arrested after he allegedly stole a box full of human ashes, thinking the powder was cocaine. Police said William “Billy” Cantrell, 28, snatched the box from a neighbor’s home. “He thought he’d done found him a box of cocaine is what he thought,” said Cantrell’s grandmother, Wanda Allen. Cantrell’s mother, Kathy, said he had not snorted the ashes, and hoped police would go easy on her son. “I’m not saying he’s not guilty,” she said, “but he didn’t know what he was stealing.”
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