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Ghost rides shotgun at NASCAR race
FROM STAFF AND WIRf REPORTS
After Oregon resident Big George Helms died from a heart attack, his loved
ones decided to fulfill the 54-year-old’s dream of participating in a NASCAR
race, arranging for the former loggers ashes to be driven around the track.
Driver Mike Harmon taped Helms’ urn to the fire extinguisher of his
Nationwide Series car during practice last Friday. He told ESPN he could hear someone
squealing when he went through a couple of turns. “I swear I did,” Hannon said. “I heard
a noise I’ve never heard before. It happened just one time, through turns 1 and 2."
NOTED. Police jailed a 34-year-old Florida
man accused of punching his wife and threaten
ing to kill her with a gun and a Voodoo curse
The woman, a strong believer in Voodoo, said
her husband is "more than capable’ of casting a
Voodoo curse, an arrest report stated.
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■ Larceny from a vehicle was
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