Former Hometown Blues

I used to marvel while I lived there that Phoenix, while the 6th (or 5th depending on who you believed) largest city in the US could at times feel very small, sometimes strangely so. How strangely?

How ‘bout this strangely:

Three years after Shellie White became a fugitive with her two children, the 30-year-old Arizona woman was arrested in North Carolina on kidnapping charges and accused of posing as their father. The real dad, Ernest Karnes of Globe, was reunited Monday with his two youngsters, Erica and Dusty.