ARIZONA
Card draw decides Council election
PHOENIX — The election came down to the high card.
With the final Town Council seat in the small Phoenix-area town of Cave Creek on the line, two candidates who tied with 660 votes apiece in a May runoff cut cards to decide the race.
The winner was Adam Trenk, 25, whose king of hearts beat out former Council member Thomas McGuire’s six of hearts.
An obscure Arizona law dating to 1925 says election ties should be broken “by lot.” It applies to all elected offices but the governor, secretary of state, attorney general, treasurer and superintendent for public instruction. Ties in those seats are determined by the Legislature.
While a first for Cave Creek and relatively rare, such events do happen from time to time in Arizona. Last year, two local school-board candidates rolled dice to decide a winner. In 1992, a game of poker resolved a stalemate in the primary for a state legislative seat.
CALIFORNIA
9/11 search dog cloned for ex-cop
LOS ANGELES — Scientists in California said they have cloned a dog that helped with search-and-rescue after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York.
Five German shepherd puppies cloned from a dog named Trakr have been delivered to owner James Symington, a former police officer in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who now lives in Los Angeles.
Before Trakr died in April at age 16, Mr. Symington entered a contest sponsored by the California company BioArts International that offered to clone a pet dog for free.
Mr. Symington took Trakr to New York after the World Trade Center collapsed and said Trakr helped find one woman who was alive.
CONNECTICUT
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