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Man calls ambulance 50 times a year, demands ride home TAKAMATSU -- An unemployed man who often called for an ambulance to take him home after he went drinking has been found guilty of obstruction of duties and sentenced to three and a half years in prison. Judge Hidenaga Manabe at the Takamatsu District Court called the wrongdoing of Satoshi Nakagawa "selfish." "He committed a selfish crime by obstructing the highly urgent duties of ambulances," the judge said when he handed down the ruling on Monday. On the night of June 8 last year, Nakagawa, 55, was sitting down on...

Mayor John Street was inaugurated for a second term today after winning over Sam Katz in last November's election. Perhaps the real news, though, was that Governor Ed Rendell, Street's predecessor and mentor, was absent from the ceremony, supposedly "on vacation". City council members were also sworn in; noteworthy was a power play by the newly installed members who, in an eleven to seven vote, stripped many of the powers from council president Ann Verna and transferred them to the mayor's office.