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By Peter Parkour · Tribune staff
A reported shortage leads to another collection, amplified music and more figures to reconcile.
Missing church donations have prompted an accounting inquiry by Betty and a separate attempt by private investigator Wong Gai to obtain a confession from the congregation.
Gai insisted the inquiry should take place under the roof where the money disappeared. He then turned to a competitive giving event, saying contributors’ behavior could tell him more than their explanations.
Larry’s surveillance material has not supplied a clear picture. Gai has continued to favor direct observation, including who takes an interest in the money basket.
sports
By Peter Parkour · Tribune staff
A qualifying decision settles a place in the fight, while leaving the cause of Hamill’s condition unsettled.
Matt Hamill has been disqualified from a major qualifying fight after officials took his swollen appearance as an indication of steroid use. The ruling does not, by itself, establish why his condition changed.
Hamill had eaten at Wok N Roll before the fight. The meal is part of the sequence of events, although the public accounts do not establish a cause.
schools
By Peter Parkour · Tribune staff
Submitted questions and displayed replies no longer appear to match.
Fort Vale High’s science symposium, featuring Stephen Hawking, has encountered an unexpected problem: the answer system is producing material that does not correspond to the students’ submitted questions.
Questions were collected on floppy disks. The discrepancy leaves an unresolved interval between a student submitting a file and an answer appearing through the school’s system.
local
By Peter Parkour · Tribune staff
The department is checking a sighting while withholding agreement on what was seen.
A prank that left Wong Gai alone in the woods has led to a police search after the investigator reported seeing a large, hairy figure move between the trees.
The men who arranged the snipe hunt had already left, according to Gai’s account. They were involved in the prank; the later sighting is his report.
