Bad Day to Skip Class

Sarah Minor picked the worst day to skip class.

At 1 p.m. Tuesday, her father, Tech. Sgt. Chuck Minor, stood in the hallway outside her UNO classroom.

He shook his head. He tried to force a smile.

He wore the frustrated look of a man who very much loved his 18-year-old daughter, and who also felt a little like grounding her until she qualified for Social Security.

Minor had just flown for 36 hours, from Iraq to Kuwait to Germany to Baltimore and finally to Omaha.

He had done so in secret — scheming for a week — so he could surprise his youngest child just after she took her seat in professor David Peterson’s freshman-level poetry, drama and film class.

He was home from the Iraq War.

One teensy problem: Sarah wasn’t here.

“She’s at Chipotle,” her stepmom, Sherry Minor, reported after a surreptitious text conversation.

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Nearly half German city to evacuate Sunday for defusing of WWII era bomb

About 45,000 residents of the German city of Koblenz, nearly half of the city’s population, are under evacuation orders Sunday following the discovery of what local officials said was one of the largest unexploded bombs ever found, believed to have been dropped by the British Royal Air Force during World War II.

The nearly 4,000-pound bomb, packed with more than 3,000 pounds of explosives, as well as other unexploded ordnance, were discovered in the Rhine River, where the water levels have dropped significantly due to a lack of rain over the past few weeks, according to local authorities.

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Ex-Sheriff Arrested, Held In Jail That Bears His Name

Patrick Sullivan was such a popular sheriff that Arapahoe County renamed the jail after him when he retired. Sullivan, arrested on drug charges this week, is now an inmate in the the Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. Detention Facility.

The former top cop in Arapahoe County, which includes Littleton, Colo., is facing charges that he planned to distribute methamphetamine after police found him allegedly offering to trade the drug for sex with a man.

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