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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- Dentist Frank Illuzzi was stunned when Vermont tax collectors began demanding a 6 percent sales tax on the value of toothbrushes and floss he hands out to patients. Senior care facility operator Jay Grimes was similarly surprised to get a $350,000 bill slapping a 9 percent restaurant tax on the meals served to residents in the dining room. Landscaper Richard "Buckwheat" Lowe got $18,000 in bills taxing him for the first time ever on the mulch he sells....

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- Dentist Frank Illuzzi was stunned when Vermont tax collectors began demanding a 6 percent sales tax on the value of toothbrushes and floss he hands out to patients. Senior care facility operator Jay Grimes was similarly surprised to get a $350,000 bill slapping a 9 percent restaurant tax on the meals served to residents in the dining room. Landscaper Richard "Buckwheat" Lowe got $18,000 in bills taxing him for the first time ever on the mulch he sells....

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- Dentist Frank Illuzzi was stunned when Vermont tax collectors began demanding a 6 percent sales tax on the value of toothbrushes and floss he hands out to patients. Senior care facility operator Jay Grimes was similarly surprised to get a $350,000 bill slapping a 9 percent restaurant tax on the meals served to residents in the dining room. Landscaper Richard "Buckwheat" Lowe got $18,000 in bills taxing him for the first time ever on the mulch he sells....

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- Dentist Frank Illuzzi was stunned when Vermont tax collectors began demanding a 6 percent sales tax on the value of toothbrushes and floss he hands out to patients. Senior care facility operator Jay Grimes was similarly surprised to get a $350,000 bill slapping a 9 percent restaurant tax on the meals served to residents in the dining room. Landscaper Richard "Buckwheat" Lowe got $18,000 in bills taxing him for the first time ever on the mulch he sells....

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- Dentist Frank Illuzzi was stunned when Vermont tax collectors began demanding a 6 percent sales tax on the value of toothbrushes and floss he hands out to patients. Senior care facility operator Jay Grimes was similarly surprised to get a $350,000 bill slapping a 9 percent restaurant tax on the meals served to residents in the dining room. Landscaper Richard "Buckwheat" Lowe got $18,000 in bills taxing him for the first time ever on the mulch he sells....

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- Dentist Frank Illuzzi was stunned when Vermont tax collectors began demanding a 6 percent sales tax on the value of toothbrushes and floss he hands out to patients. Senior care facility operator Jay Grimes was similarly surprised to get a $350,000 bill slapping a 9 percent restaurant tax on the meals served to residents in the dining room. Landscaper Richard "Buckwheat" Lowe got $18,000 in bills taxing him for the first time ever on the mulch he sells....

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- Dentist Frank Illuzzi was stunned when Vermont tax collectors began demanding a 6 percent sales tax on the value of toothbrushes and floss he hands out to patients. Senior care facility operator Jay Grimes was similarly surprised to get a $350,000 bill slapping a 9 percent restaurant tax on the meals served to residents in the dining room. Landscaper Richard "Buckwheat" Lowe got $18,000 in bills taxing him for the first time ever on the mulch he sells....

Britain's Jessica Ennis sets a new national heptathlon record in winning the Hypo event in Gotzis, Austria.

Kurt Nimmo | Baghdad talk undermined as the U.S. and Israel sabotage the diplomatic avenue and prepare for war.

A Bosnian couple kept a German girl as a slave and subjected her to inhumane treatment for eight years, reports from Bosnia say.

Political parties in Greece criticise IMF head Christine Lagarde for suggesting that Greeks were avoiding paying taxes.

A man dies on a beach in West Sussex after going to the aid of two children in the sea.

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BEIJING (AP) -- Every workday at 7:20 a.m., colleagues pick up Yao Lifa from his second-floor apartment and drive him to the elementary school where he taught for years....

BEIJING (AP) -- Every workday at 7:20 a.m., colleagues pick up Yao Lifa from his second-floor apartment and drive him to the elementary school where he taught for years....

SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia State Police said late Saturday they had found four bodies in a wooded area and believe they are those of a missing man, his girlfriend and his two young children.

Police said in a news release that the bodies were found about a mile ...

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) -- Campaign banners from an election that was violently interrupted still hang in the main thoroughfare of this steamy capital, a reminder that a stable government is far from the country's grasp....

A man in his 40s and a woman in her 30s are killed and several others injured in an accident at a motor rally in County Cavan.

Two rebel groups that seized northern Mali two months ago agree to merge and turn their territory into an Islamist state, both sides say.

Relying on a tip of men selling drugs in Cleveland, the officers approached defendant and he admitted smoking PCP earlier. That was reasonable suspicion to pat him down for officer safety. State v. Hunter, 2012 Ohio 2302, 2012 Ohio App. LEXIS 2023 (8th Dist. May 24, 2012)*:

[*P19] In our view, the record establishes that the officers proceeded to investigate the area in good faith reliance upon the tip of men selling drugs. During their conversation with the men, defendant was sluggish, appeared dazed and confused, and repeatedly failed to answer the officers' questions. Although the officers demanded that defendant take his hands from his pockets, the record demonstrates that as the officer took a few steps closer to defendant, he quickly detected the distinct odor of PCP from defendant. Defendant then told the officers that he had smoked PCP earlier, and this created a reasonable suspicion, based upon specific and articulable facts, that an individual is or has been engaged in criminal activity such to justify a search of defendant's outer clothing under Terry. Accord State v. Wilson, 8th Dist. No. 94097, 2010 Ohio 5478 (patdown permissible where officers detected odor of PCP); State v. Dunn, 8th Dist. No. 85435, 2005 Ohio 3477.

Hunter is here. What’s this gratuitous use of “good faith” for an encounter? Sloppy appellate court writing--completely unnecessary, and a prosecutor will later use this case to argue the good faith exception applies to warrantless searches.