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NORTH PLATTE, Neb. - Washing his horses at a car wash didn't seem like a bad idea to Jess Yager until it turned out to be illegal.Yager took his four horses to the car wash Monday afternoon to clean them, saying it's hard to clip and trim horses when their hair is caked with mud.But animal control officer John Pettit was ready to ticket Yager. Pettit told Yager it was against the law to wash his animals at the car wash and let him off with a warning.Yager said that's news to him since he's been doing it for years....

NEW BRITAIN -- City police Wednesday continued to investigate a shootout at a Corbin Avenue carwash Monday night that ended with one man dead and another seriously wounded. Police said they are still seeking one suspect, and have not made any further arrests. Norman Moore, 24, Rashad Williams, 27, and the unidentified suspect drove into the carwash about 8:30 p.m. Monday intending to rob two men who were standing by an Oldsmobile, police said. But one of the men pulled a gun, and Moore was killed in the gunfire that erupted. During the gunfire, one of the intended robbery victims...

Women Who Run Topless Car Wash in Liberal Idaho College City Are Evicted From Communal Home The Associated PressPublished: Jul 11, 2002 MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) - A topless car wash held to raise rent money was drained when some of the bare-breasted businesswomen were kicked out of their communal home. City officers served trespassing notices on five of the 11 residents Wednesday, threatening arrest if they returned, Police Chief Dan Weaver said. The residents do not have a lease and not subject to formal eviction procedures, he said. The action came at the behest of landlords David and Sis Clift,...

A topless car wash is raising eyebrows and questions in Moscow, Idaho. Is it a case of indecency, or women exercising their civil rights? That's a question Moscow's City Council will answer this week. "We had about four days to come up with four hundred dollars," said Daisy Mace, one of the topless car washers. Mace and some of her roommates needed to earn rent money, and they had to earn it fast. The out of work roommates looked around for ideas and landed on a plan for a topless car wash. The gimmick worked. "We were washing cars nonstop...