News You Can Use: Missing for 26 years

Are tacos sandwiches?

Martin Quintana, 53, has hoped to open a second The Famous Taco location in Fort Wayne, Indiana, for a few years. However, businesses in the development he was eyeing are limited to “sandwich bar-style restaurants whose primary business is to sell ‘made-to-order’ or ‘subway-style’ sandwiches” -so Quintana was shut out. He sued, the Associated Press reported, and on May 15, Superior Court Judge Craig Bobay laid down the law: “(T)acos and burritos are Mexican-style sandwiches.” Quintana said the new location should be open in two to three months.

Inexplicable

A 45-year-old man identified as Omar B. was located in a neighbor’s house in Djelfa, Algeria, after being missing for 26 years, Gulf News reported. Omar disappeared in 1998 during the Algerian Civil War; his family assumed he had been kidnapped or killed. His captor, a 61-year-old doorman, was taken into custody after he tried to flee; Omar told officials on May 14 that he couldn’t call out for help “because of a spell that his captor had cast on him.” Omar is receiving medical and psychological help.

Recent Alarming Headline

“Priest Accused of Biting Woman During Communion,” Click Orlando announced on May 23. On May 19, an unnamed woman attended Mass at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in St. Cloud, Florida, where she attempted to take Communion. Father Fidel, however, allegedly refused to give her Communion bread because he said she had not confessed her sins. The priest said the woman pushed him and grabbed the tray of Communion bread, which is a no-no, and “the only way he thought to extract her from it was to bite her arm,” according to police. The priest has not yet been charged.