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Now its time for News now from the Paraquat file

Dateline Soldotna, Alaska. 73 year old Della Miller crashed her car through the front of Tina's Hair Pros. Two large plate-glass windows were destroyed, walls damaged and the stonework outside the hair salon was smashed. Not to mention one patron was taken to the hospital for a check up Good news Miller stayed and kept her appointment.

And how about the sighting in Baker County Florida described as a large, hairy primate running loose in the woods. According to animal control officer Tina Thomas We got this call and a man says, you are just not going to believe this and I'm not crazy. I have a monkey in my tree. Thomas asked, Are you sure He replied, I'm telling you I'm not on drugs and I ain't been drinking.

Finally, hundreds of bottles of Jack Daniel's whiskey, some of it almost 100 years old, might be unceremoniously poured down a drain because authorities suspect it was being sold by someone without a license.

Officials seized 2,400 bottles late last month during warehouse raids in Nashville and Lynchburg, the southern Tennessee town where the whiskey is distilledprompting an outraged Kyle MacDonald, a Jack drinker from British Columbia to say; the whiskey itself is innocent punish the person, not the whiskey

Yep, pk reporting...