GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) – You can call Claudette Osborn double-lucky.

Last week she won her second brand-new car in nine months while gambling in a casino.

In June, she drove home in a $30,000 silver Saturn Sky convertible from Spirit Mountain Casino after playing the penny slots.

Last week it was a $20,000 shiny-red Volkswagen Beetle she won in a drawing at Seven Feathers Casino in Canyonville.

“I must be living right or something,” said Osborn, a retired state revenue agent who works part-time inspecting rental properties.

Osborn and her husband, Dale, had driven to Seven Feathers for a Valentine’s Day dinner and to do a little gambling.

Her name was called as one of five finalists in the car giveaway.

“I was playing poker in the poker room, and I had gotten a full house when I heard my name,” Osborn said. “I thought, “Oh no, I can’t leave. This is the first good hand I’ve had.”‘

A friend encouraged Osborn to leave the game, pointing out that the most she could win in the poker game was less than $100. Osborn left and won the car.

“You can’t believe how many people gave me hugs and kisses,” she said.

“It’s the first time on Valentine’s Day I got a decent present!”

She traded in the Saturn Sky for a 2005 Toyota Camry plus cash. And the VW? She’s not sure.

‘Mr. Bones’ used as crime evidence

BEDFORD, Pa. (AP) – “Mr. Bones” died nearly a half-century ago, but he’s still not resting in peace.

The unidentified skeletal remains won’t be buried anytime soon because prosecutors here contend that they contain evidence of an unsolved crime.

The remains were found in October 1958 in a marshy area near a turnpike plaza in Bedford Township, about 85 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.

Authorities believe he was shot in the head in 1956. Police found a large sum of cash with the body, leading them to believe robbery was not a motive.

Mr. Bones, a nickname given by police, was nearly buried in 2001. The sheriff and his employees found a donated cemetery plot, gravestone and casket. A preacher had been lined up.

But the then-district attorney got a court order to stop the burial, and the remains were handed over to the state police.

“It’s really an unusual case,” prosecutor William Higgins said. “But the bottom-line is that you really have to preserve any evidence you have, just in case someone would come forward.”

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DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) – If you lose your class ring swimming in the Pacific Ocean, the odds of finding it aren’t exactly high – especially more than 20 years later.

Apparently, suburban Philadelphia resident James Costantini has some kind of luck.

His parents recently presented him with his long-lost 1984 class ring from William Tenant High School. He had lost it swimming off the coast of Hawaii while on vacation with his family when he was 18 – more than 20 years ago.

A California man found it a year later while snorkeling off Maui and kept it as a souvenir. The finder, Phil Winter, says the topaz ring sat in his wife’s jewelry box until recently, when his daughter saw it and wanted to wear it.

Winter decided that he should try to track down the owner and did so with the help of one of his daughter’s teachers. The ring was returned in a box from a Maui jeweler, arriving at the Upper Southampton Township home of Costantini’s parents on Saturday.

“I thought a fish ate it,” said Costantini, now 41.

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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) – The idea of a nap club at Indiana University South Bend started out as a joke. Then some people slept on it.

Students Michael Duttlinger and Joe Spencer, president and vice president, respectively, point to studies that say napping can heighten creativity, boost memory and increase alertness.

The Nap Club consists of a quiet room with the shades drawn, a few desks and chairs, and six air mattresses, purchased through a small sum allotted to campus clubs.

Up to 15 people can come in to doze. A moderator wakes them up at the appropriate time and “makes sure no one messes with you or your stuff,” Duttlinger says.

The room is open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday.

So far, the club has attracted a steady stream of nappers, and there are 30 to 35 people on its e-mail list.

The club started simply enough. “We were being funny and talking about starting a club, and I’m, like, ‘What should we do?”‘ recalls Duttlinger. Spencer suggested Duttlinger do something he liked, and napping came to mind.

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