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The harsh reality of the decreasing number of cemetery plots in the United States can be especially painful for those looking to plan a burial in or near their hometown.

“All cemeteries are running out of land,” said Don Molzon, president of the association that maintains the Berry Lawn-Charlestown Cemetery in Carlstadt. “They are using whatever land they can, including former pathways.”

Currently, Berry Lawn-Charlestown, located near Seventh and Eighth streets, has approximately 3,700 deceased. However, that number is an estimate since some records have been lost by past cemetery administrations .

How many plots are left to purchase at Berry Lawn-Charlestown?

Nine — that’s it.

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For more than two years, Sydney Davis’s house has been under siege from youths throwing stones.

After two hours of bombardment in the latest attack and no sign of the police, the 65-year-old retired builder decided enough was enough.

As a particularly large missile landed in his kitchen, he grabbed a plank of wood from the garden and ran towards the gang to scare them away.

The police arrived just in time - to arrest Mr Davis for possession of an offensive weapon.

He now faces up to six months in prison. Yesterday Mr Davis said he was bewildered by the decision to prosecute him.

He claims objects have been thrown at his house on 700 separate occasions.
His windows have been smashed five times in eight months.

‘Something needs to be done to stop these kids. They are out there every night,’ he said.

‘One of my neighbours even had a seven-month-old in their kitchen when a brick came through the window.

‘It showered glass across the baby’s face. When these kids see the police they are off through the alleyways. The police have got no chance of catching them.’
Mr Davis’s 42-year- old wife Pauline dialled 999 when their home came under attack yet again last week, but two and a half hours later officers had failed to arrive.

The couple’s two sons, five and seven, were cowering behind the sofa when their father ran at the gang.

He recalled: ‘My wife called the police at 6 o’clock. But [the youths] just kept on throwing stones.

‘I have two kids and if one of those stones hit them it could have caused some really nasty damage.

‘I left the back door open to stop them smashing it.’

When officers arrived outside his home in Swindon, Wiltshire, Mr Davis was handcuffed and led away to the cells, where he was later charged.

The youths ran off. ‘What in the world is this country coming to that the police arrest people like me for protecting their own property?’ he said yesterday.

‘The police say they want to reduce crime, yet they let evil little toe-rags like this off. Then they prosecute hard-working, upstanding residents like me.

The law is, quite simply, a colossal ass.’

Wiltshire police claim to have increased their patrols after two houses in the region were attacked by arsonists.

Officers’ shift patterns were also changed so they would be in the neighbourhood after dark, while the local council is considering blocking-off some of the alleyways.

Yesterday a spokesman confirmed that no youths were arrested in relation to the incident.

Local councillor Justin Tomlinson said homeowners in the area were ‘living in fear’ of unruly youths.

‘We have sympathy with frustrated local residents - the Government continues to ignore a broken society, and therefore it is little wonder that frustrations boil over.’

Tiger Woods’ wife Elin Nordegren and Luke Donald’s Fiancee Diane Antonopoulos

Tiger Woods’ wife Elin

Girlfriend of Henrik Stenson Emma Loferen, girlfriend of Luke Donald Diane Antonopoulos, girlfriend of Paul Casey Jocelyn Hefner, wife of Padraig Harington Caroline Harrington, wife of Lee Westwood Laurie Westwood and wife of Paul McGinley Alison McGinley

Chad Campbell and his wife Amy

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana —  Guyanese authorities say a first-class airline passenger was so angry at seeing economy passengers leave a jetliner before him that he yanked open an emergency hatch and slid down the chute.

Police spokesman Sealall Persaud says the Guyanese man identified as Satyanand Christopher appeared to be intoxicated after the Delta Airlines flight from New York.

Persaud said Sunday that local police arrested Christoper, who was quickly released on bail after the Friday incident.

Delta spokesman Junior Horatio says the U.S. carrier plans to file charges against the man for interfering with flight crew members.

A 41-year-old man has died after falling off a golf cart near Hoy’s Resort in Rice County.

Sheriff’s officials say that Randy Dean Ronquist suffered a severe head injury and was unresponsive after falling off the golf cart on Friday night. He could not be revived at the scene.

According to Sgt. Dan Silkey with the Rice County Sheriff’s Department, Ronquist was a passenger of the golf cart. The driver of the cart owned it as well. The driver was arrested and booked on 4th degree driving under the influence and criminal vehicular operation involving a death.

Silkey said there were four people on the cart at the time of the accident; one driver, one passenger and two people standing on the back bumper. The cart was on its way back to a camp site at Hoy’s Resort after watching fireworks.

Authorities believe alcohol was a factor and that all four people on the cart had been drinking. Toxicology reports on Ronquist are pending as well as charges against the driver.

A disabled man in an electric wheelchair was refused a third beer by pub bar staff – because of drink-driving laws.

Lee Cook, 33, was told that his limit was two bottles of Budweiser at the Stick or Twist pub in Leeds.

The cerebral palsy sufferer, whose wheelchair has a top speed of 4mph, said: ‘I was flabbergasted and upset. I’m angry and I want an apology.

‘If I was going to go out and get behind the wheel of a car, then obviously I could understand it, but the fact is, I wasn’t.

‘I had only had two bottles of beer. It’s not as if I was steaming drunk.’