The Oakland Police Department reported the following activity April 25:
April 2012
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Fake inspection sticker leads to drug arrest
Having pulled over a car for a suspicious inspections sticker, a South Portland officer notices a passenger in the car hiding something in his mouth. That something, police say, was crack cocaine.
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LePage vetos deed registry fee increase
The governor called the bill a tax increase that he cannot support.
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N. Korea military brags of ‘powerful modern weapons’
Washington worries about the possibility that North Korea might develop a reliable intercontinental ballistic missile and a nuclear bomb small enough to use as a payload.
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Ex-student sues Maine Job Corps over dismissal
The Connecticut man alleges he was assaulted by three other students at the Limestone school when he was 17, then expelled because of alleged gang activity.
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Charities seek a few good baby boomers
Boomers are attractive volunteers, and it’s not just the sheer strength of their numbers – 77 million. They bring well-honed skills and years of real-world work and life experience.
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Supreme Court questions Arizona’s tough immigration law
The court’s review of the Arizona law includes a provision that requires police, while enforcing other laws, to question a person’s immigration status if officers suspect he is in the country illegally.
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Discovery of mad cow in US was stroke of luck
Tests are performed on only a small portion of dead animals brought to the transfer facility near Hanford in central California, and “this just happened to be one that we randomly sampled.”
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Auburn teen to serve 3 years for severe beating
Nineteen-year-old Jacob Estes must also pay more than $3,500 in medical expenses that weren’t covered by his victim’s health insurance.