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What We've Found: Tsunami warnings, sewage pits, produce strike, church thieves, etc.

POSTED: Monday, March 1, 2010, 3:58 PM
Filed Under: What We've Found

Lara Coleman here with your morning fix:

The Chilean Navy is under fire for not issuing a tsunami warning after the earthquake, which could have allowed villagers to relocate and dodge the disaster that as claimed over 600 lives so far.

A teenage Dunkin' Donuts worker, Amiri Zeqiri, fell into a sewage pit behind a Smithtown, N.Y., restaurant and died Sunday night. Look for this on an upcoming episode of 1,000 Ways to Die.

A young Temple dance team captain and student, Kammini Rajoopath, was killed in a car accident at 2:30 a.m. Saturday when her tired teammate drove off the road on the way to a dance competition in North Carolina. The seven other team members in the van survived.

Workers at the Philadelphia Regional Produce Market are on strike as of this morning, halting the distribution of produce to many local restaurants and retailers.

Prudential Insurance of Britain announced that it will buy American International Group's life insurance company for an estimated $35.5 billon. Also, fuck you, AIG.

Advocates for openly carrying guns have found a new friend in Starbucks, after Dale Welch walked into a Starbucks with a handgun at his waist and caused no alarm.

In a ski mask and sunglasses, a robber stole the collection plate from an altar boy walking the aisles at St. Andrew's Catholic Church in Drexel Hill at an early Sunday morning mass.

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