Tested positive, 756,046; died, 13,822.
                                                                [courtesy N.Y. Times]

An epidemic was killing songbirds in 15 Indiana counties, and
natural resources officials recommended that people get rid of
their bird feeders.
                                                    [courtesy Columbus Republic]

taraditz.jpg South Bend's most wanted: Kortnee Gross-Payton, WF, 5'3", 140 lbs; Dustin Dokey, WM, 5'9", 175 lbs, parole absconders; Tara Dietz, WF, 5'9", 150 lbs, Theft (Michiana Crime Stoppers)

Tested positive, 465,232; died, 7,252.
                                                                [courtesy N.Y. Times]

Fourteen persons were arrested, 34 more were criminally char-
ged and a number were injured, including a man impaled by a
log  that  pierced the  floorboard of his vehicle,  at  a  five-day
"Redneck  Rave"  in Blue Holler OffRoad Park  in Edmonson
County. . . .

"If Elizabethtown is the backbutt of Kentucky, Bowling Green is
 the frontbutt.  And Louisville is the shit."
                                                                    [courtesy Hairy Times]
                   

floyd01.jpg Wanted in Floyd County: Patricia Morgan, 28,  Coke (Spotcrime)

Dog of the week:  Dalmatian Like the Great Dane,  this one gets capitalized, since it refers to a place.   But the dang Danes insist that it is a misspelling of "damnation."  Whatever. You should be able to find one on your local fire truck.

Colorado issued its first excessive heat warning ever, expecting temper-
atures up to 110° on the Western Slope. . . . West Virginia Congressman
Alex Mooney was reported to have spent $1,900 in campaign funds  for
53 meals at Chick-fil-A  . . . The Emmys decided to allow contestants to
substitute "gender neutral" terms,  such as  "performers,"  for such terms
as "actors" and "actresses." . . .  A herd of 30 to 40 cattle escaped from a
slaughterhouse in Los Angeles County, California, and roamed the neigh-
borhood,  and songwriter Diane Warren stepped in to save one cow,  that
she had sent to a sanctuary.  . . . Two Hoosiers were charged with animal
cruelty  after a dead monkey was found in their hot car parked at a water
park in Sevierville, Tennessee.
                                                                [courtesy Harper's, LEX18, AP]

natashad.jpg Wanted in Wichita (Kansas, not Wichita Falls, Texas): Justin Wayne Belcher, WM, 33, 5'10", 200 lbs, probation violation (burglary); Natasha Denise Peters, BF, 38, 5'3", 170 lbs, forgery; Mariah Marie Swank, BF, 26, 5'2", 175 lbs, probation violation (false inf.); Derek Michael Johnson, WM, 25, 6'4", 160 lbs, probation violation (burglary) (Sedgwick County Sheriff)

A man from La Mesa, California, who has been playing
golf for 50 years  vowed to play  50 rounds  in 50 states
in 50 days.

katelynn.jpg Locked up in San Angelo (by the Tom Green County, Texas, Sheriff): Mitchell Vitale, 36, no driv. lic., ctl. substances; Debra Trevino, 46, burglary; Crystal Helfrich, 40, bad check; Katelynn Crawford, 29, marij.; Julisma Reyna, 18, mj.; April Rodriguez, 31, credit card abuse; Lisa Manis, 31, harassment, family assault, marijuana; Jesus Martinez, 26, intox.in publ.

lifekitc.jpg kitchen door at Doug's Motor City bar & grill, Bowling Green,Ky. "Keep this door locked"; Life Saver Dude: "I locked it behind me as I left"

Tested positive, 754,043; died, 13,766.
                                                                [courtesy N.Y. Times]

De'Joure  Mercer,  a black Indianapolis cop  famous for killing
Dreasjon Reed last year, sued the National Football League for
martyring Reed (along with George Floyd).
                                                                        [courtesy LEX18]

branross.jpg South Bend's most wanted: (Michiana Crime Stoppers) Oliver Cooper, WM, 6'1", 150 lbs, upside down ears, auto theft, paraphernalia; Brrandon Ross, BM, 5'9"", 175 lbs, marijuana; Jeffery Vladic, WM, 5'11", 175 lbs, DUI; Krystina Rippberger, WF, 5'11", 150 lbs,meth; Danny Kirksey, WM, 5'7", 160 lbs, fraud; Miguel Perez, HM, 5'5", 130 lbs, coke; Glen Manda, BM, 6'1", 165 lbs, upside down ears, FTA

Tested positive, 464,308; died, 7,225.
                                                                [courtesy N.Y. Times]

Thousands of Kentuckians were still waiting for unemployment
checks for claims filed more than a year ago when the coronavi-
rus pandemic  laid  them  off,  including  a  75-year-old  woman
who got only one check.
                                                                           [courtesy WFPL]

humphrey.jpg Lexington's most wanted: Walter Humphries, WM, 55, 5'11", 185 lbs, persistent felony offender; Darmohne D. Glenn, BM, 30, 6'2",220 lbs, narcotics, paraphernalia (Bluegrass Crime Stoppers)

Summer cancer strikes winter firewood trove:

[Edmonson County,

Tabloid Headlines photos]

                                Ned Beatty, 83
                                Bobby Unser, 87 (May 1)
                                Bobby Unser Jr., 65 (June 15)
                              

The White House press corps jet to the G-7 conference in Cornwallis, Wales,
was delayed 6½ hours by an invasion of cicadas. . . . Brazilian President Joal
Bolsonaro was fined $110 for violating Sao Paulo's mask mandate. .  .  . A re-
port from ProPublica revealed that the 25 richest Americans paid  an  average
income tax rate of 15.8 per cent  from 2014 to 2018,  lower   than  the average
rate of Americans making $45,000 a year.. . . El Salvador became the first na-
tion to recognize Bitcoin as legal tender. .  .  . A recent study suggested laugh-
ing gas as a treatment for depression.
                                                                          [courtesy Harper's, LEX18, AP]

matteoal.jpg Arrested in Abilene: Matteo Alejandro Gamboa, HM, 19, 5'11", 150 lbs, aggrav. robbery; Wanted in Wichita (Kansas, not Wichita Falls, Texas): Jessica Lee Cartere, WF, 34, 5'4", 150 lbs, prob. viol. (opiates); Melissa Gilford, WF, 35, 5'3", 160 lbs, p.v. (credit card (ab.) (Abilene Crime Stoppers, Sedgwick County (Kansas) Sheriff)

Dog of the week:  Siberian husky It is said that Siberian huskies get lonesome  if  left alone  too  long; that is why we have pictured  two. Asian, not Alaskan, in origin.

jerimiah.jpg Locked up in San Angelo (by the Tom Green County, Texas, Sheriff): Jerimiah Delatorre, 37, threat to publish; Courtney Proctor, 27, publ. intox.; Alice Rodriguez, 38, parole viol.; Jana Thompson, 35, mob.; Venetta Young, 61, DUI; Littlesnow Garcia, 34, ag. assault; Rosy Bryant, 42, mobery; Shanda Cruz, 38, ctl. subs.

lifesalu.jpg "Oooh, it says here you graduated as salutatorian. Very impressive. Where did you  attend?" "I was home-schooled" Life Saver Dude: That's my brother! I came in third!

:

Jeremy Durbin wrote 6/7/21 @08:15 CDT:

Interesting headline on Frontier Airlines.  I was sitting on
a Frontier jet waiting to go to the runway when  I  read  it.
Jiggling.

Tested positive, 751,991; died, 13,714.
                                                                [courtesy N.Y. Times]

chismray.jpg South Bend's most wanted: Joshua Chism, BM, 5'6", 160 lbs, meth, auto theft; Sander Ray, BM, 5' 9", 140 lbs, armed robbery (Michiana Crime Stoppers)

A fence was built around a post office in Bloomington to pro-
tect postal workers from the homeless. . . .

A 47-year-old woman  passed out on a roller coaster in Santa
Claus and died.
                                                  [courtesy Columbus Republic]

Eighty dogs were rescued from a woman's home in Munford-
ville.
                                                [courtesy Hart County Herald]

Danville police asked for public help to stop SplatRBall Blas-
ter attacks on people and vehicles. . . .

Nine motor vehicles piled up in a single accident between Be-
rea and Mount Ver non. . . .

A wrong-way driver killed six people in another car, including
five children, on I-75 in Lexington.  In another crash  the  next
day,  on New Circle Road,  the wrong-way driver was killed.

                                                                        [courtesy LEX18]

rainwalk.jpg Rainbow crosswalks unveiled in downtown Lexington LEX18

                                                                               

brownbry.jpg Lexington's most wanted: Bryan Dee Brown, BM, 24, 5'9", 200 lbs, narcotics (Bluegrass Crime Stoppers)

Dog of the week:  chow chow Originally a Chinese breed,  that some consider too aggressive for home pets. But your editor's Polish wife once had a perfectly behaved chow chow named Ma/a (pronounced "MOW-uh"), which is Polish for  "little."    And Ma/a had a daughter named Whiskey.

Prince Harry and "Duchess" Meghan welcomed their second child, Lilibet
Diana. . . . Ex-President Trump's new internet blog was shut down for lack
of readership. . . . A motorist in Indian River County,  Florida,  stopped af-
ter a high-speed chase,  threw his 2-month old baby  at  the  police. .  .  . A
merry-go-round horse with an  Indian  head  in its saddlebag was removed
from an amusement park in Thornton, Colorado. .  .  .  Two sisters were ar-
rested for driving around Cincinnati,Ohio, shooting sleeping homeless peo-
ple with BB guns. . . . Nevada has prohibited certain "nonfunctional" grass
lawns to conserve water. . . . A woman  was  bitten  by  an  alligator  while
walking her dog in Palm Harbor, Florida. .  .  .The state of Washington ap-
proved marijuana bonuses for Covid-19 vaccinations  ("Joints  for  Jabs").

                                                                    [courtesy Harper's, LEX18, AP]

dandavid.jpg Locked up in San Angelo (by the Tom Green County,Texas,Sheriff): Daniel David, 39, marijuana; Tasha Rose, 34, marijuana; Marie Guajardo, 51, DUI; Janet Cuellar, 52, fraud; Alicia Diaz, 38, DUI; Rebecca Bricken, 39, trespass; Tiffany Wilson, 40, ctl. subs.; John Brown, 29, pub. intox.

People who invited us to be their "friends" on Clutterbook Facebook in the last week included
        Wiktoria Dąbczyńska: 

DISCUSSION GROUP:     Don't  forget!  Readers interested in intellectu- al dissection of important current events are invi- ted to attend the  Weekly World News Round Ta- ble at the offices of Borf  Books outside Browns- ville,  Kentucky,  just after church every  Sunday. Guest speakers lined up for meetings in the  near future include Shilpa Shetty.

lifeside.jpg Sidewalk closed Life Saver Dude Damn, what the hell are we gonna do now?

J. Ewing wrote Sun 5/30/21 @13:34 EDT re Alabama's continued
prohibition of the  greeting "namaste":

What happens if someone asks if you are going to leave before
the yoga class begins and you reply, "Naw, ima stay"?

Tested positive, 749,471; died, 13,661.
                                                              [courtesy N.Y. Times]

State education officials asked South Bend schools to repay
more than $620,000 after an audit found they claimed mon-
ey for dozens of students who never logged in to alternative
classes on line.
                                                [courtesy Columbus Republic]
 

pullmann.jpg Wanted for parole violation (Michiana Crime Stoppers): Russell Pullman, WM, 6', 190 lbs; Victoria Daniels, WF, 5'1", 140 lbs; Cora Hayes, WF, 5'3", 160 lbs; Savon Peak, BM, 5'6", 140 lbs; Michael Winston, WM, 6'2", 185 lbs; Markeese Hunter, BM, 5'7", 145 lbs; Robert Maxie, BM, 5'10", 215 lbs; Nate Sappington, WM, 5'6", 170 lbs; Todd Debroka, WM, 6', 190 lbs

Tested positive, 461,450; died, 7,136.
                                                                [courtesy N.Y. Times]

Our favorite tree  (and a certain cow's): About half a mile west  of  the  Liberty Hill Missionary Baptist Church on U.S. Highway 31-W,  Edmonson County.                      [Tabloid Headlines photo]

gonzalez.jpg South Bend's most wanted (Indiana): Frank Gonzalez, HM, 5'10", 175 lbs, crim mischief, resisting; Ankoma Kirk, BM, 5'9", 160 lbs, U.S. release viol.

An Eiffel Tower was under construction in Paris, Kentucky.

                                                                   [courtesy LEX18]

maullerj.jpg Lexington's most wanted: David Edelstein, WM, 31, 6'1",200 lbs, parole viol. (narcs); Christopher Strunk, WM, 34, 5'10", 140 lbs, theft; Cecil Slone, WM, 53, 5'8", 160 lbs, upside down ears, theft; Elizabethtown's: Jenny Mauller, WF, 49, 5'1", 119 lbs, parole violation; Paul Earl Watkins, WM, 47, 5'8", 160 lbs, bail bond violation (Bluegrass Crime Stoppers, Hardin County Sheriff)

"A writer writes; a speaker speaks.  So, does a grocer gross, an usher ush,
  and a haberdasher haberdash?"
                                                            – Richard Lederer

Dog of the week:  basset hound Short-legged hound with sense of smell said to be second only to the bloodhound's.  The name is de- rived from the French word bas,  for "low."  Your editor once personally (doggedly?)  knew a basset hound in Sunfish, Ky., named Buford.

monicaho.jpg Locked up in San Angelo (by the Tom Green County, Texas, Sheriff): Monica Hodega, 40, abusive language; Stephanie Sambrano, 35, c.s.; Stephanie Howe, 45, trespass; BAILED OUT or ESCAPED; Rachel Hudgins, 28, DUI; Elyssa Niedzielski, 22, mobery; Stacy Rodriguez, 35, mj, paraph

The publisher of the National Enquirer, American Media,was fined $187,-
500 by the Federal Election Commission for a $150,000  paid  agreement
in 2016 to suppress a story about Playboy model Karen McDougal's affair
with Donald Trump (CEO David Pecker was a friend of Trump). .  .  . An-
heuser-Busch joined President Biden's goal of  70 per cent  vaccination  in
an offer of free beer if it happens. . . . The federal Food & Drug administra-
tion warned people not to eat cicadas if they are allergic to sea food. . . . A
hat shop in Nashville, Tennessee, Hatwrks,  announced via Instantspam In-
stagram that it was selling $5 Star of David patches reading  "not  vaccin-
ated." . . .OSHA reported that Amazon, the second-largest private employ-
er in the United States, has the highest amount of workplace accidents in its
warehouses, nearly double the rate of non-Amazon warehouse workers. . . .
Seven Tasmanian devils were said to have been born in a nature preserve in
Australia 3,000 years after the animals were said to have gone extinct. .  .  .
The bride collapsed and died at her wedding in  Uttar  Pradesh,  India,  and
the groom married her younger sister. . . . A man accused of animal cruelty
in beating an iguana to death in West Palm Beach, Florida,  was denied the
"stand your ground" defense.
                                                                       [courtesy Harper's, LEX18, AP]

rogscott.jpg Arrested in Abilene (Texas, not Kansas): Roger Scott Wilson, WM, 50, 5'9", 165 lbs, ag. kidnapping; Richard Michael Nieves, HM, 38, 5'8", 240 lbs, fail. to reg.; Ashley Renée Alaniz, WF, 36, 5'4", 140 lbs, aggravated kidnapping; Wanted in Wichita (Kansas, not Wichita Falls, Texas): Marlon Terelle Hardy Jr., BM, 28, 5'9", 176 lbs, aggravated battery; Christopher E. Stephen Jr., WM, 44, 6', 240 lbs, ag. ass. (Abilene Crime Stoppers, Sedgwick County (Kans.) Sheriff)

Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka was fined $15,000 for skipping a press conference after winning her first-round match at  the  French Open tennis tournament  (she said she's dod- ging the press for her mental health)   –  and she withdrew from the tournament.

Russian player Yana Siziko- va  was  arrested  for match- fixing. . . . Essential  Quality   became the third separate winner of a leg  of this year's horse ra- cing "Triple Crown" by win- ning   yesterday's   Belmont Stakes,  as Bob Baffert,  the trainer  of  Kentucky  Derby winner  Medina Spirit,  was suspended for two years  by Derby host Churchill Downs for  drugs found in his horse after the race.

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