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Boy, 12, charged with police crash

RIPLEY, W.Va., April 3 (UPI) -- Police in West Virginia said a 12-year-old Wood County boy was arrested after he allegedly crashed his mother's car into a police vehicle.

West Virginia State Police Sgt. S.E. Wolfe said the boy's mother reported the car stolen from her Mineral Wells home Wednesday at 7:54 a.m. and Jackson County sheriff's deputies and a Ripley police officer gave pursuit after spotting the car on Interstate 77, WCSH-TV, Charleston, W.Va., reported.

Authorities said the car, which was being driven by the 12-year-old, caused minor damage when it struck the driver's side of the police cruiser before crashing into a median guard rail and cable barriers.

The boy, who has been charged with fleeing, joyriding and destruction of property, was released Wednesday into the custody of his parents.

Al Capone's home for sale in Chicago

CHICAGO, April 3 (UPI) -- A South Side Chicago home that once housed mobster Al Capone and his family is being put on the market with an asking price of $450,000.

Patrice Brazil, the Coldwell Banker agent who's listing the Park Manor neighborhood building, said that while the price is higher than the $180,000 to $230,000 that similar houses in the area have been selling for, the home is likely to appeal to those interested in its history, the Chicago Tribune reported.

"I'm looking for people who would be interested in the historical value of this home," Brazil said. "It's an excellent home, and it's in great shape."

The two-story brick home, which has had only two owners since Capone's mother died in 1952, has been owned since 1963 by Barbara Hogsette, 71. She said she is selling the house so she can move to California and be closer to her son.

"The time is right for me to move on and let someone else in," she said.

Man coughs up nail, doctors stunned

COLORADO SPRINGS, April 3 (UPI) -- Doctors at a Colorado clinic said a nail coughed up by a patient may have been lodged up the man's nose for 30 years.

The Old Colorado City family clinic said Prax Sanchez arrived complaining of a sharp pain in his face under his right eye, KKTV, Colorado Springs, reported.

Doctors and staff at the clinic said they were shocked when, after a magnetic resonance imaging test, Sanchez began coughing and a 1-inch nail fell out of his nose.

"To us, he's a medical miracle. It's amazing. We've never seen anything like this," medical receptionist Cheryl Paterson said.

Doctors said the nail may have been lodged in Sanchez's nose for up to 30 years.

"Once it's in the nasal cavity like that, a little membrane forms around it and it becomes a foreign object," one doctor said.

Sanchez told the television station is didn't know how the nail got into his nose.

Steam-powered car aims at speed record

WEST THORNEY, England, April 3 (UPI) -- The British builders of a steam-powered car say they are targeting 127.7 mph, the speed record for steam-power set in 1906.

The team said the car, nicknamed the world's "fastest kettle," made it up to 80 mph Wednesday during a test run on a Ministry of Defense runway at the Thorney Island airfield in West Sussex, England, The Times of London reported.

Don Wales, 48, who drove the car during the test run, said all appears on track for the record attempt in June at the Edwards Air Force Base in California.

"The car really did handle beautifully. As it was building up steam, you could hear it gurgling," he said.

The steam-powered car contains 12 boilers that are made from nearly 2 miles of tubing. The water, which is used by the car at a rate of 13.2 gallons per minute, is superheated to 750 degrees and injected into the vehicle's turbine at more than two times the speed of sound.