Four Christian missionaries trying to convert Muslims were arrested and jailed Friday for disorderly conduct at an Arab festival in Dearborn, police said.
“We did make four arrests for disorderly conduct,” Dearborn Police Chief Ron Haddad said Saturday. “They did cause a stir.”
Nabeel Qureshi of Virginia and David Wood of New York, both with a Christian group called Acts 17 Apologetics, were arrested with two others after they were said to be causing disruptive behavior, police said.
Jason Cottle lost his high school class ring 27 years ago while swimming in a quarry on Granite Hill in Hallowell.
He never thought he’d ever see it again. Then he read in the Kennebec Journal the quarry was being drained.
Thursday morning, to his surprise, Cottle found the lost treasure.
“We found it on a ledge that would have been 35 feet under the waterline, where we used to swim,” Cottle said Thursday. “As soon as I saw the picture in the paper, I realized the waterline was below the ledge where I lost the ring. I went right up there and started looking for it.”
The owner of Stinchfield Quarry, Lenny Nason, is draining the quarry, which has been closed for 80 years, to restart a granite mining operation.
Cottle, a 45-year-old carpenter from Gardiner, said he and a friend had to claw through dirt and pieces of granite that had slid into the water.
While searching for the engraved ring, they found jewelry, shoes, clothing, four pairs of glasses, three sets of keys on rings, unexploded blasting caps, clothing, about $3 in change, four cases of soda and beer bottles, and a safe that someone had cut a hole in the side with a blowtorch.
“I found the diving mask I lost when looking for the ring back in 1983,” he said.
“The ring is in unbelievably good condition,” he said. “It probably would look worse if I wore it for 27 years.”
I’m fortunate to still have 20/20 vision at the ripe old age of 34, and this may be a common feature on other websites that sell eye glasses, but I found that Warby Parker allows you to either upload a picture or take one with your webcam so you can virtually try on different styles of glasses.
Perhaps he just couldn’t take the sound of all those vuvuzelas.
A South African man is still alive despite shooting himself in the head and then being hit by a lorry.
The man, from Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal, was in a car when he shot himself, an emergency worker told the BBC.
The bullet got lodged in his skull without hitting his brain. He then got out of the car to seek help and was hit by a heavy lorry.
He is only alive “by some miracle” the emergency worker said. He is now being treated in a Durban hospital.
I’ll be honest, I had to look up lorry.