The country is already famous for its generous welfare state, now the northern town of Overtornea is considering another benefit. A local official in Sweden has a novel proposal to improve work-life balance and lift the local birthrate: give municipal employees an hourlong paid break each week to go home and have sex.
The Death of Cochise. Cochise established a stronghold in the Dragoon Mountains west of Fort Bowie in what is now part of the Coronado National Forest [in southeastern Arizona]. The enemy were never able to dislodge him from this high, rocky fastness. At length, however, he died...I cannot give particulars.
He was, for 21 months of a two-year term (Feb. 1881 to Nov. 1882), the sheriff of Cochise County in the Arizona Territory. This newly-created county, of which Behan was the first sheriff, included the mining boom city of Tombstone, which served as the new county seat and Behan's headquarters.