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Son drinks vodka from sippy cupCONNEAUT, Ohio — An Ohio woman has been charged with child endangerment after she sneaked a sippy cup of vodka into a high-school football game and her toddler son drank from it and became ill.Thirty-year-old Andrea Mucciarone pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor charge Tuesday in Conneaut Municipal Court.The public defender assigned to represent Mucciarone said Wednesday he had no comment.Police say Mucciarone brought the sippy cup and her 23-month-old son to a Conneaut High School football game Oct. 28 and a relative later noticed something wrong with the boy when he couldn’t stand up. Police were called to a hospital where the toddler was treated.Conneaut’s police chief says the toddler has been placed in the custody of a relative.

Men caught after not paying for taxiDEAL, N.J. — Authorities say two men took a taxi to a home they planned to rob but then stiffed the driver on the fare, leading him to report them to police.Deal police say 46-year-old Kenneth Burke and 38-year-old Timothy Foote are charged with burglary, conspiracy, theft and criminal trespass.Authorities say the men told the driver to wait outside the home Friday, and they soon returned with a television and liquor bottles. The driver then took them to an apartment in Asbury Park, but they didn’t pay the fare.The driver called Asbury Park police, who soon notified Deal police about the burglary.

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