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Painting bought for $10 sells for $34,375

CONCORD, N.C., Oct. 2 (UPI) -- A North Carolina woman who bought a painting for $10 at a Goodwill store said the artwork fetched $34,375 at a New York auction.

Beth Feeback of Concord said she bought the painting, Ilya Bolotowsky's "Vertical Diamonds," because she planned to paint over it with her own art, but a friend encouraged her to look up the name of the artist on the back of the painting and have it appraised by experts, WCNC-TV, Charlotte, reported Tuesday,

The painting sold for $34,375 at Sotheby's New York, meaning Feeback will receive $27,000. She said the money will go toward paying off debts and improving her home.

Ring back after several decades

TONAWANDA, N.Y., Oct. 2 (UPI) -- The family of a New York state man who lost his class ring more than 65 years ago said the item has been returned to them.

Elaine Kalpin of Tonawanda said her late husband, Tom, lost his 1944 class ring while swimming at a Canadian beach shortly after his graduation and she was recently contacted by Elmer Covelli, who said he found the ring buried in the sand at a beach in the 1950s, The Buffalo (N.Y.) News reported Tuesday.

Covelli said his son was recently able to find Tom Kalpin's name from the "TGK" initials on the ring by partnering with a friend at the Pentagon.

Covelli said he did a Google search and obtained contact information for Elaine Kalpin, whose husband died in 1991.

Kalpin said she immediately contacted her three daughters, who said they were ecstatic to receive the memento of their father last week.

"Happiness, just happiness," daughter Karen Vollmer said of her feelings about having the ring back in the family. "He didn't have a lot of possessions, especially from his youth."

Ky. restaurant closed due to roadkill

WILLIAMSBURG, Ky., Oct. 2 (UPI) -- A Kentucky health inspector said a Chinese food restaurant was ordered to shut down after he discovered a roadkill deer in the eatery's kitchen.

Paul Lawson, the Whitley County environmental health inspector, said a patron at the Red Flower Chinese Restaurant in Williamsburg called his office Thursday afternoon and reported workers at the restaurant had brought a dead deer through the dining area in a garbage bin, WYMT-TV, Hazard, reported Tuesday.

Witness Katie Hopkins said a tail, foot and leg could be seen sticking out of the garbage can as two workers wheeled it by. She said they were "trying to be real quick with it ... so nobody could see it" as they took it "straight back into the kitchen."

Lawson said he arrived at the restaurant and discovered the roadkill deer carcass in the kitchen. He said the owner's son admitted to picking up the deer from the side of the road.

"They said they didn't know that they weren't allowed to. So that makes me concerned. But maybe they could have before. They didn't admit to doing it before," Lawson said.

He said the man told him he was planning to serve the deer to his family, not to restaurant patrons.

Lawson said the eatery can reopen if it passes a secondary inspection and prove is provided it has been washed and sanitized.

He said the owners of business will not face any fines.

Police: Suspect tried to eat pot plant

SCRANTON, Pa., Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Police in Pennsylvania said they caught an alleged marijuana dealer trying to destroy a plant by eating it while officers searched his home.

Scranton and South Abington Township police officers said they served a search warrant Monday on the Scranton home of Jeremiah Carmody, 33, and the suspect attempted to eat a marijuana plant to prevent it from being logged as evidence by officers, the Scranton Times-Tribune reported Tuesday.

Police said they seized the plant along with 4 pounds of marijuana, $2,600 in cash, four digital scales and drug paraphernalia found in the home.

Carmody was charged with manufacturing, delivery and possession with the intent to deliver marijuana, criminal use of a communication facility, possession of body armor and other drug-related offenses.