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Dad's ashes stolen from car

OMAHA, May 26 (UPI) -- An Omaha woman who carried her father's ashes as she went about her daily business says someone stole the urn from her car.

"Definitely, my heart sank when I saw that he was missing," Diamond Frye told WETV-TV, Omaha. "It's sort of all I have left. Of course, I have the pictures, I have his mementos, but actually having him with me -- I feel like he was with me when I had that. And he's not with me now."

Frye said her father died of a heart attack in March and likes to keep his ashes near her.

"He comes with me in my purse sometimes, sometimes in my car, sometimes he was in the house," she said. "I like to have with me."

Frye said she was hopeful the person who took the black egg-shaped urn Monday night will look inside and turn it over to police.

She said the thief probably thought the urn was worth something.

Mating elk sculpture unveiled

INDIANAPOLIS, May 26 (UPI) -- A sculpture of two elk mating is eliciting criticism about the mode of intercourse shown outside the recently remodeled Herron School of Art in Indianapolis.

That's because the elk are depicted in a sexual position more suited for humans than animals, WISH-TV, Indianapolis, reports. The sculpture -- called "Trophy" -- was designed by contemporary artist Wim Delvoye of Belgium.

"I've been to Montana, Wyoming, Idaho and I've actually hunted their elk," Jimmy Kincaid told the TV station. "If I see two elk doing that, I'm running, that's all I can say. 'Cause it's not right."

Art student Lindsey Martin said it's a big deal about nothing.

"It's taking nature and putting it into a human element. It's an every day thing," she said. "It's nothing as bad as everybody thinks."

Antique sex toys taken from brothel

BUTTE, Mont., May 26 (UPI) -- Thieves who took antique sex toys from a famous Montana brothel-turned-museum might have been scared away by a ghost, the museum's curator says.

Rudy Giecek discovered the burglary when he opened the Dumas Brothel in Butte Tuesday for a New York Times reporter who was doing a story on its history, The Butte Montana Standard reported Wednesday.

"I was sick," Giecek told the Standard. The stolen items were "not too valuable of stuff, but invaluable for this piece of history."

The burglars looted the first floor, but left many items in a pile on the second floor - as if they had hurriedly fled.

"I think they got scared out as they were in the process," Giecek said. "I do think a ghost scared them off."

He said thieves who were caught breaking into the brothel in 1992 said they were scared by a ghost on the second floor.

The Dumas brothel was in business for 92 years, closing in 1982.

But there might be a silver lining to the incident. Giecek said the break-in made the New York Times reporter "more interested" in telling the story.