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Twin cops save jogger's life

CHESAPEAKE, Va., Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Twin brothers who serve as police officers in adjoining Virginia towns joined forces to save the life of a jogger who collapsed on the city line.

The brothers were on the phone with each other Monday morning when Justin Bowman got a call about a medical emergency in Chesapeake, the Newport News Daily Press reported. When the location was changed to Virginia Beach, he alerted his brother, Brandon, and the two officers both went to the scene, where they found a man unconscious and not breathing.

Dorienne Boykin, a Chesapeake police spokeswoman, said Justin performed CPR and Brandon used an external defibrillator. By the time an ambulance arrived, the man had a pulse and was breathing.

Both brothers have been police officers for three years.

"What are the chances that we'd be 30 seconds away from where it happened, have the right equipment and know what we're doing?" Justin Bowman told The Virginian-Pilot. "And I handled the situation with my bro."

Tomato mania takes over yard

WINNETKA, Calif., Sept. 16 (UPI) -- A Southern California man who harvested almost 11,000 pounds of tomatoes last year is going for 15,000 this year.

Bill Anderson and his wife, Christine Griego, grow their plants on less than a quarter acre in Winnetka, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday. Most of the yard is devoted to tomatoes, although they also have a few roses.

Anderson keeps meticulous track of his harvest with daily records of how many tomatoes he picks and what varieties they are.

Scott Daigre, a landscape designer, runs the Tomatomania seedling sales, where Anderson volunteered this year.

"If you think that growing backyard tomatoes is just that, you're missing the point," he told the Times. "It's a search for the past, a romantic search for a memory, a hope of reliving a childhood experience, a great dinner."

McCain 'laughed' at BlackBerry comment

MIAMI, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- John McCain's presidential campaign has quickly backed away from an adviser's statement that seemed to indicate the Republican helped "create" the BlackBerry.

Douglas Holtz-Eakin, one of the Arizona lawmaker's top economic advisers, cited McCain's tenure as chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee during a briefing with reporters on the GOP candidate's plans for the Wall Street crisis, The New York Times reported Tuesday.

"He didn't have jurisdiction over financial markets, first and foremost,'' Holtz-Eakin said of McCain's experience on the committee.

"But he did this,'' he said while holding up what appeared to be a BlackBerry device. "The telecommunications of the United States, the premier innovation of the past 15 years, comes right through the Commerce Committee. So you're looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create. And that's what he did.''

Matt McDonald, a senior aide to McCain, said the candidate "laughed" when he heard the comment.

"He would not claim to be the inventor of anything, much less the BlackBerry,'' he said. "This was obviously a boneheaded joke by a staffer."

The BlackBerry was created by Research in Motion, a Canadian company.

Sheik: Mickey Mouse 'should be killed'

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- A Saudi sheik has declared Disney animated icon Mickey Mouse "a soldier of Satan" who "should be killed in all cases."

Islamic cleric Muhammad al-Munajid, a former diplomat who once served at the Saudi Embassy in Washington, said during an interview with al-Majd Television that Islamic law declares the mouse as "a repulsive, corrupting creature" and he condemned cartoons that glorify rodents, including Mickey Mouse, Ynetnews reported Tuesday.

"Mickey Mouse has become an awesome character, even though according to Islamic law, Mickey Mouse should be killed in all cases," al-Munajid said.

"The shari'a (Islamic religious law) refers to the mouse as 'little corrupter,' and says it is permissible to kill it in all cases. It says that mice set fire to the house, and are steered by Satan. The mouse is one of Satan's soldiers," he said.