California:

SACRAMENTO,

Ethan Dean will be dream on Tuesday.

The six-year-old has a garbage truck bedspread and pillow. He has garbage truck toys. He’s had a garbage truck birthday party.

Now, thanks to the Make-AWish Foundation, he’s going to experience what it’s like to be a garbage truck driver. The boy who has cystic fibrosis will ride in a real garbage truck through downtown Sacramento, collecting trash and recyclables, just like he’s always wanted.

When Ethan visited the MakeA-Wish Foundation in February, he was asked a series of questions: What do you want to be? Who do you want to meet? What do you want to have? Where do you want to go?

Almost all of his answers were garbage truck-related, said Jennifer Stolo, CEO of the local chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation. He really, really wants to be a garbage man when he grows up.

It meant the wish he’d be granted wasn’t too mysterious.

“We pretty much knew it was going to be about garbage trucks,” said Ethan’s dad, Ken Dean, laughing. He’s been watching them come down the street since he first learned how to crawl, his dad said. (AP)

ROME:

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OLYMPIA, Washington:

Sheriff’s officials say a Washington state man led police on a chase across two counties because he was bored.

The News Tribune reports that the 30-year-old man had no warrants or prior convictions and had a valid driver’s license when he took off through an intersection near Olympia late Saturday. After burning rubber, a sheriff’s deputy tried to pull him over. The suspect did not comply.

The pursuit lasted for more than an hour and crossed two counties and 49 miles (79 kilometers) before the suspect hit a fence and was apprehended. Sheriff’s officials say there was no evidence that the driver was impaired by drugs or alcohol.

Sgt. Dave Odegaard says the man appears to have instigated the pursuit for fun. The suspect has been charged with three counts of attempting to elude a police vehicle. (AP)

Cooling off with a midnight dip in Rome’s famous Trevi Fountain may sound like a dream “Roman Holiday”, but an Italian police crackdown has landed a series of splash-happy tourists with fat fines.

Police said Monday two young Californians were ordered this weekend to pay a 450-euro ($500) fine each after being caught trying to emulate Swedish star Anita Ekberg, who wades through the fountain’s pristine waters in Federico Fellini’s film “La Dolce Vita”. (AFP)