Barry’s Surplus closes its doors: President Barack Obama on Monday halted transfers of combat-style hardware to local law enforcement. The president said battlefield equipment should not be a tool of American criminal justice.
The news is expected to have little effect on police in the sleepy Southern town of Mayberry, where Sheriff Andy Taylor will continue to restrict Deputy Barney Fife to one grenade launcher firing mechanism, kept in his shirt pocket.
You should have enough money left to play the lottery: Whole Foods on Monday denied a report that it plans to launch its new line of value-price stores in the Pacific Northwest.
What has been decided is that the stores will be nicknamed “Not Quite Whole Paycheck, But Pretty Close.”
Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1536, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England’s King Henry VIII, was beheaded after being convicted of adultery.
A terrible fate, to be sure, but the women on “Game of Thrones” have seen worse.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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