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The San Francisco Chronicle reported last month that the new dogcatcher for San Mateo County will be paid $250,000 a year, more than twice what San Francisco’s dogcatcher earns and more than the salaries of California governor Gray Davis and San Francisco mayor Willie Brown.
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In June, Detroit police arrested five suspects in the robbery of a McDonald’s restaurant after one of the men tossed his bandanna out the window of the getaway car, where it snagged on the radio antenna and acted as an identifying flag for police in pursuit….And Elizabeth McDonald, 24, pleaded no contest in June to robbing the VFW hall in Medina County, Ohio, where she used to work; though she had worn a mask, she’d made no attempt to disguise her waist-length red hair, which had been instantly recognized by at least one former coworker.
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