BEAVERTON, Ore.
- A homeless man who called 911 from the hot tub of a suburban Portland home and asked for towels, hot chocolate and a hug got arrested for trespassing instead.

Beaverton police say Mark Eskelsen called 911 from his cell phone, identified himself as “the sheriff of Washington County,” and asked for medical help. He later admitted he wasn’t the sheriff but informed the dispatcher he’d been “yelling for about an hour and a half.”

The man said in his Sunday morning call that he’d been in the water about 10 hours and his towels had gotten wet. As he put it, “I just need a hug and a warm cup of hot chocolate with marshmallows in it.”

The Oregonian newspaper says arriving officers arrested Eskelsen for investigation of second-degree criminal trespass and improper use of 911.

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Information from: The Oregonian, http://www.oregonlive.com

SEOUL, South Korea
- South Korea and the United States will hold joint anti-submarine exercises in another show of force against North Korea, officials said Friday, as Pyongyang renewed threats against the drills.

The exercises will be the second in a series of joint maneuvers the allies planned to conduct in response to the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship in March that they blame on the North. The two sides staged large-scale joint naval drills in July followed by South Korea’s own naval drills last month.

The drills, set to run from Sunday through Thursday off the Korean peninsula’s west coast, will involve about 17,000 U.S. and South Korean troops, seven ships and two submarines as well as aircraft, according to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff and the U.S. military in Seoul.

The exercises are “designed to send a clear message of deterrence to North Korea, while improving overall alliance anti-submarine warfare capabilities,” the U.S. military in Seoul said in a statement.

The announcement of the planned drills comes as China reportedly holds live-ammunition exercises in the Yellow Sea.

An international team of investigators concluded in May that a North Korean torpedo sank the 1,200-ton South Korean warship Cheonan in late March near the Koreas’ western maritime border, killing 46 South Korean sailors.

North Korea, which denies any involvement in the sinking, has threatened to retaliate against South Korea and the U.S. over the drills, which Pyongyang sees as a rehearsal for an invasion.

The U.S. keeps 28,500 troops in South Korea in what it says is a deterrent against any possible aggression from North Korea and says it has no intention of invading the North.

“Our military and people will deal a merciless blow if warmongers stage reckless provocation,” North Korea’s government-run website, Uriminzokkiri, said in a commentary Friday.

For example, the Great Minneapolis Crisis Nursery needed cash-flow financing beyond what it could obtain from banks in 2009. The nursery had been trying to sell or lease its former building in south Minneapolis but ran into the frozen commercial real estate market. It leased to a charter school that faced its own cash flow problems because of declining state funding. More families, stressed by job losses and foreclosures, required more services. Donations were down. Nonprofit Assistance helped bridge the short-term gap.

The Treasury awarded $105 million to 179 non-traditional and community lenders from among 408 applicants nationwide.

Meanwhile, the Community Reinvestment Fund USA (CRF), a nonprofit financial intermediary that connects community development lenders with Wall Street, has received a $100,000 grant from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation, the latest in a series of investments by the big bank.

Since 1988, Minneapolis-based CRF has helped drive more than $1.1 billion in private capital to inner cities and small towns, leading to the creation or retention of nearly 45,000 jobs, said CRF Chief Executive Frank Altman.

CRF helps grow businesses that one day can be banked by commercial lenders.

Future jobs exhibit at fair

The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development is showcasing future jobs at an exhibit in the Eco Experience building at the Minnesota State Fair.

This includes:

¢MinnesotaWorks.net, through which job seekers can view thousands of job listings from private employers, upload resumes and apply for work.

¢The iSeek energy careers website for jobs in renewable energy, utilities, distribution and energy-efficient construction. ISeek is Minnesota’s comprehensive career, education and job resource.

¢Three “green-oriented” growth companies, including Entropy Solutions, which creates temperature-controlled packaging solutions from vegetable oils for the transportation, construction, healthcare and food industries.

¢Pure Soap Flake Co. of Pine River, which manufactures cleaning and washing products that use natural ingredients, including soybean oil.

¢Red River Coatings of Argyle, which makes environmentally friendly animal and bird deterrents.