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Cases heard at Coventry Magistrates Court on Wednesday, November 26, included:

Elizabeth Dunn, 26, of Roosevelt Drive, Tile Hill North, admitted assault. She was jailed for 12 weeks - suspended for 12 months - with activity and supervision requirements, and told to pay 180 compensation.

Kay Jones, 26, of Winceby Place, Tile Hill North, admitted stealing a CD worth 11 from Asda and breaching a community order. She was given a 12-month community order with a four-week curfew and activity and supervision requirements, and told to pay a 60 victim surcharge.

Vladimirs Maksimenko, 24, of St Michaels Road, Stoke, admitted driving with the wrong licence, no insurance and no MOT, and drink-driving (131mg of alcohol in 100ml of blood. Legal limit is 80mg). He was banned from driving for 12 months and told to pay a 365 fine, a 35 victim surcharge and 85 costs.

Terry Vaughan, 51, of Woodlands Road, Binley Woods, breached a community order by failing to attend supervision. He was given a 10-day activity requirement and told to pay 85 costs.

Philip Curley, 60, of Dulverton Avenue, Chapelfields, admitted breaching a breach of the peace. He was bound over for 200 for 24 months.

James Russell, 22, of Binley Road, Stoke, admitted damaging a car, and a gate and a fence. He was told to pay a 200 fine, 125 compensation, a 20 victim surcharge and 85 costs.

Mark Hamilton, 45, of Laneside, Willenhall, admitted two counts of benefit fraud. He was given a 12-month community order with 200 hours unpaid work, and told to pay a 60 victim surcharge and 85 costs.

Cases heard at Coventry Magistrates Court on Thursday, November 27, included:

Nikara Beech, 28, of Roseberry Avenue, Bell Green, admitted stealing 38 cans of Lynx worth 95.20 from Sainsburys. She was given a four-week curfew and told to pay a 60 victim surcharge.

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CRESCO | An Osage company has been ordered to pay a rural Elma man $118,900 in damages after a jury found the mans farmland was damaged and trespassed on when the company removed trees and fencing.

After two days of hearing witnesses, on Dec. 12 theHoward County District Court jury found defendants Mayers Digging Co. of Osage and part-owner Mark Wagner liable for damage to the farmland of plaintiff Melroy Dean Buhr at 13727 Howard Ave., rural Elma.

The jury awarded Buhr, represented by attorney Ted Sporer of Des Moines, $118,900 damages plus interest, which includes $55,000 for loss of use and enjoyment, $40,000 for trees and shrubs, $18,900 for a fence and $5,000 for drain tile repair.

A claim for lost profits from crop production from 2012 through 2014 caused by failure of field drain tile to work properly was not awarded.

The land adjoining Buhrsis owned by Samuel and Marilyn Hasapopoulos of Clear Lake and farmed byJames Koenigs, the primary owner of Pinicon Farms Inc. In fall 2011, Hasapopoulos and Koenigs discussed the removal of trees, rocks and brush along the fence line bordering the Buhr property, court documents state. The vegetation was said to be plugging field drain tile lines and causing other problems in connection with farming.

Koenigs contacted Mayers Digging, and he and Mark Wagner drove to the fence line Nov. 14, 2011, to discuss the removal of problem items, documents state.

Wagner was told by Koenigs he had the permission of all landowners to perform the work, the defendants trial brief states. Wagner removed the tree, rock and brush with a bulldozer Nov. 21-22, 2011.

When the work was complete, Buhr approached Wagner.

Wagner then learned for the first time that no express permission was obtained by Koenigs from Buhr, documents state. Buhr demanded payment.

Koenigs offered Buhr, by letter dated Feb. 21, 2012, to re-establish the property line, grade the soil and perform other work required to restore the productivity of the land affected.

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Perhaps as early as May, certainly by June, the Leland Town Council will meet in new council chambers at the new town hall. At least that is the hope after Thursday's vote to accept a $457,300 bid to complete unfinished repairs to the troubled structure.

Four companies expressed interest in taking on the job, Town Manager David Hollis told the board, with three companies attending a pre-bid meeting and one ultimately submitting a bid.

The council could accept the lone bid, readvertise the job, or, perhaps, remove some of the aesthetic repairs, a temporary savings of about $45,000, Hollis explained. The board opted for the first, with a wearied acceptance of the belief that it was time to put problems in the rearview mirror and move forward.

Progressive Contracting Co. has promised the repairs including major tile work, glass replacement, leveling floors, replacing carpet and necessary electrical repairs can be completed in 150 days, and Hollis vowed that the work would start "tomorrow."

The tab can be covered without dipping into general fund reserves, he told council, using about $258,000 in cash on hand, and another $200,000 or so from uncommitted cash acquired in drug arrest forfeitures, which, if carefully done, can be spent on this project.

Moving forward on town hall was the third of three positive developments deep into the Thursday agenda. Just prior to that vote, council got a positive update on both the new Cultural Arts Center, which is set to open early in 2015, and the Westgate Nature Park, for which it approved the master plan.

Council also gave final approvals for a pilot park and ride program in Leland, which will have three locations in town at Brunswick Forest, Food Lion and on Mt. Misery Road. The program is scheduled to roll out Jan. 5 in conjunction with a North Carolina Rideshare program.

"We will now become the first area in the Wilmington Metropolitan Planning Organization that will launch these park and ride locations," said Council Member Pat Batleman, who has worked with the organization on the project. "People will be able to go onto the website, get partnered with other people who are traveling to the same location."

The council also honored Daniel Teachey, owner/manager of the town's Piggly Wiggly, as the Mayor's Citizen of the Year.

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Posted: Thursday, December 18, 2014 4:36 pm | Updated: 5:27 pm, Thu Dec 18, 2014.

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A sprinkler system had mostly extinguished a fire in a commercial building in Yuma Wednesday night by the time firefighters arrived on scene.

Yuma Fire Department spokesman Mike Erfert said that shortly after 10 p.m., a water flow alarm was received, indicating a fire sprinkler system had activated in a commercial building located at 475 W. 32nd St.

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Sprinkler system nearly puts out fire before firefighters arrive By James Gilbert, Yuma Sun staff writer Yumasun.com

A sprinkler system had mostly extinguished a fire in a commercial building in Yuma Wednesday night by the time firefighters arrived on scene.

Yuma Fire Department spokesman Mike Erfert said that shortly after 10 p.m., a water flow alarm was received, indicating a fire sprinkler system had activated in a commercial building located at 475 W. 32nd St.

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Winter will officially begin at 6:03 p.m. New York time on Dec. 21.

That marks the point at which the least amount of sun falls across the northern half of the globe, and dark means cold.

Obviously with daylight pretty much absent in the northern latitudes, the days are getting very short and that is the nursery for our polar and arctic air masses, said Michael Schlacter, a meteorologist with Weather 2000 Inc. in New York.

In New York City, Dec. 21 will have 9 hours, 15 minutes and 16 seconds of daylight, according to Timeanddate.com. When the new work week begins, things will already be looking up because daylight will have increased by a second.

In Boston, the daylight on the 21st will be about 10 minutes shorter than in New York, while Chicago will have about seven minutes less. As depressing is that sounds to people who like sunshine, Torontos daylight only lasts 8 hours, 55 minutes and 43 seconds, which is still more than an hour of what will fall on London.

Well refrain from using the colloquial shortest day of the year because even Dec. 21 will have 24 hours.

The cold will wax and wane through the course of the winter for a variety of reasons. One is that after truly frigid air drops out of the Arctic into the more temperate latitudes of North America, it takes time to rebuild the supply.

Schlacter said for the U.S. to have a winter that lasts, cold snaps have to be interspersed with milder periods.

You dont want every week to be freezing cold if you want to have a long winter, he said. You have to recharge that Canadian freezer.

Snow on the ground can also influence temperatures. The suns energy is used up melting the frozen crust rather than heating the air.

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This pup underwent quite the transformation.

Obie the dachshund, from Portland, Oregon, first made headlines in 2012 when heweighed a startling 77 pounds and his new owner set out on a quest to help him lose more than half of that. Nora Vanatta, a certified veterinary technician who rescued him from his previous owners, put him on a strict diet and exercise regimen. It worked and Obie now clocks in at a healthy 23 pounds. To celebrate, Vanetta has released a 2015 calendar chronicling the pups journey.

I feel blessed to be involved in Obies rehab and hope he can be an inspiration to any person or animal trying to lose weight, Vanetta told the Telegraph. It is so important to introduce pups and kids to a healthy lifestyle and food choices as early as possible.

Getting Obie down to a healthy size was no easy task. The pups previous owners, an elderly couple, fed him human food with the intention of spoiling the dog, The Oregonian reported. When Vanetta rescued him, Obie had a great deal of adjusting to do.

He was eating only people food before, so it took a little bit of a transition to get him on dog food, Vanatta told the Today show in June. Now [he has] two meals a day, a couple snacks and lots of exercise.

In addition to a revised diet, which now includes vegetables, and an exercise regimen, the dachshund also underwent surgery last April to remove the excess skin that was leftover from slimming down.

He is a star representation of a perfect body condition, Dr. Leilani Alvarez, a veterinarian and director of a rehabilitation and fitness service told the Today show.

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LONDON, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Energy power Shell said Thursday it was shedding some of its business interests in Norway to better focus on competitive downstream operations in Europe.

Finnish fuels company ST1 acquires parts of the Norwegian downstream operations from Shell for an undisclosed sum. The company also takes a joint interest in Shell's aviation business in Norway.

Shell said the measure includes a special retail license agreement to ensure the brand remains "highly visible" in the Norwegian market.

"The deal will have no impact on Shell's other businesses in Norway," the Dutch company said in a statement.

The decline in crude oil prices, nearly half of their June value, has forced some energy companies to streamline their portfolios to cope with the market stress. In October, Shell Chief Executive Officer Ben van Beurden said "the volatility in our industry" underlined the importance of keeping a tight hold on costs and spending.

The Finnish company operates Shell's retail fuel stations in Finland and Sweden. Shell said the sale to ST1 follows divestments elsewhere in the European and Scandinavian markets as it tries to cut costs in the bear market for crude oil.

"The sale is consistent with Shell's strategy to concentrate its downstream footprint on a smaller number of assets and markets where it can be most competitive," it said.

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