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Mexicans have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic in many ways, including beer lovers finding it particularly difficult to quench their thirst as supplies run dry due to reduced production. Fernando Rodriguez wanted to have a beer while taking part in a virtual party, one of the only ways to celebrate under containment measures. After searching several stores in his Mexico City neighborhood, he eventually had to pay almost double. "In one shop... it was hidden away. They told me they could sell it to me at a much higher price. It was among the last supplies," the 33-year-old told...

Security cameras were rolling when Jeffrey Robert Sabiel, 50, and Santa Marie Walters, 32, stole a motorized shopping cart from a Walmart located on Missouri Avenue in Largo, according to an affidavit. Shortly after the theft was reported, the cart was spotted outside Jimmy's Sports Bar in Largo and an officer found the couple at the bar... After denying the theft, the couple admitted to taking the cart and was arrested on charges of grand theft. They were both booked into the Pinellas County Jail.

Adorable news crawled in from Canada this week: At Beertown, a bar and restaurant in Waterloo, Ontario, bar staff faced a sweet little scare on Sunday when a beaver tried to sneak into the bar. It took seven people, including two police officers, to capture the thirsty beast and return it to safety, CBC news reports. A staff member at Beertown stepped out for air and saw a “strange animal” approaching, the report says. Thinking it was a skunk, he went inside to get help. When he returned with backup, the beast had gotten closer. “[He was walking] through the...

President Donald Trump had his own water bottle moment. Trump, fresh from his marathon trip to Asia, paused during his address to the nation on Wednesday to take a swig of water — twice. […] At first, he couldn’t find any in his presidential lectern. “They don’t have water? That’s OK,” he said. When he was informed it was sitting on a small table to his right, the president unscrewed the cap, took a drink and then resumed his speech. He took another swig later in the speech. Trump’s water break drew instant comparisons to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s 2013...

Steve Bannon warned Friday evening that California might pose a "problem" to the U.S. by attempting to secede. Couching his statement on California's status as a "sanctuary state," Bannon, President Trump's former chief strategist, contended that California's Democrats and "the lords of Silicon Valley" would attempt to flee like states did in the run-up to the Civil War if the policy isn't turned around. "You are a sanctuary state," he told a crowd in Anaheim at the California Republican Party convention. "If you do not roll this back, 10 or 15 years from now the folks in Silicon Valley and...

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Police: Suspect thirsty for hairsprayPublished: Nov. 14, 2007 at 6:00 PM FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla., Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Police in Okaloosa County, Fla., arrested a man on shoplifting charges after he allegedly drank two bottles of hairspray while inside a store. An official at the Wal-Mart where the alleged theft occurred said the unidentified suspect routinely came into the store for his hairspray fix, but store security had been unable to catch him in the act until last week, the Northwest Florida Daily News reported Wednesday. Loss Prevention Officer Christopher White said he saw the man drink two bottles...

Man Calls 911 To Demand Beer DeliveryLast Update: 11/07 3:10 pm (NBC News) From NBC News It may have seemed like an emergency at the time, but a Connecticut man is now regretting his call to 911. The man, 35-year-old Brian Poulin of Hebron, was arrested Sunday after police said he called 911 several times and asked them to bring him beer. Hebron was charged with disorderly conduct. Police said he called 911 numerous times and told the dispatcher he was out of beer and asked them to pick up more for him. Poulin was transported to Windham Community Memorial...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A U.S. soldier serving in Baghdad died after collapsing while on guard duty, the American military said Monday. The soldier in the 1st Cavalry Division lost consciousness and stopped breathing around 11 a.m on Sunday. Medics attempted to resuscitate him and took him to a military hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The soldier's death is under investigation. Daytime temperatures are already over 100 degrees in Iraq.

A Sicilian man who had been pronounced dead by doctors startled relatives by sitting up just before he was to be put into his coffin and demanding a glass of water. Minutes later 79-year-old Roberto De Simone, from Palermo, was rushed back to the Vincenzo Cervello hospital in the Sicilian capital, where 12 hours earlier doctors said he had died. His wife and children, who had been praying over what they believed to be his corpse, declared his recovery to be a miracle. Hospital staff admit that they are baffled by his revival. Mr De Simone himself was more enigmatic....

<p>Michael Patrick George, chairman of Western Water Co., holds a binder of government paperwork concerning water sale attempts.</p> <p>POINT RICHMOND -- A Wall Street pedigree in hand, Michael Patrick George set out four years ago to conquer the California water frontier.</p>