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Editor's note: AP earlier misstated the name of the construction company performing the work. It is the Joseph A. Natoli Construction Corp., not the Joseph Construction Corp.NEW YORK — The Statue of Liberty will close for a year at the end of October as it undergoes a $27.25 million renovation that will make the interior safer and more accessible, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced Wednesday.The renovations, however, are limited to the monument and Liberty Island will remain open and the statue itself will be mostly unobstructed from view, officials said in a statement.Tegan Firth, a spokeswoman for Statue Cruises, which on an average Saturday during the summer ferries about 18,000 people to Liberty Island, said the renovation won't have a significant impact on visitation."The entire experience of visiting these national landmarks of the United States remains absolutely the same," she said. [Read the full article] A Berlin police spokesman said a 20-year-old German man had forgotten the bag on an in-bound train from the airport after returning from a trip to Mali and Mozambique.When the man went to retrieve his bag from the station's lost and found department he reached in to pull out some identification and a hairy scary tarantula crawled out.The spokesman said the spider was poisonous. Police turned the tarantula over to a police animal care unitA Berlin police spokesman said a 20-year-old German man had forgotten the bag on an in-bound train from the airport after returning from a trip to Mali and Mozambique.When the man went to retrieve his bag from the station's lost and found department he reached in to pull out some identification and a hairy scary tarantula crawled out.The spokesman said the spider was poisonous. Police turned the tarantula over to a police animal care unit [Read the full article] An 18-year-old man allegedly urinated on a sleeping 11-year-old girl on a cross-country flight Tuesday, the New York Post reports.The girl was traveling with her sister and father aboard Flight 166 from Portland, Ore., to New York's John F. Kennedy airport when fellow passenger Robert Vietze, 18, stumbled down the aisle to empty his bladder."I was drunk, and I did not realize I was pissing on her leg," Vietze, who told authorities that he had consumed eight drinks, was quoted as saying in the Post.Meanwhile, the girl's father − who had taken his other daughter to use the lavatory − returned to his seat and caught Vietze in the act.The father was enraged, according to the newspaper, and flight attendants had to separate the two and move Vietze, of Warren, Vt., to the back of the plane. [Read the full article] 
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