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Schoolgirls Excluded from Dallas Movie Screening
Last Updated: 7:51 AM 02/11/12 - A field trip for 5,700 fifth-grade boys in Dallas to see a movie about black fighter pilots in World War II has some questioning why the girls weren't included.
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Inmate Adds Pig Image to Vermont Police Cruiser Decals
Last Updated: 3:58 PM 02/02/12 - A Vermont prison inmate who makes stationery and license plates has gotten the best of the state police by adding the image of a pig to the state decal on their cruisers.
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Toothless Pa. Bank Robber Suspect Needed Dentures
Last Updated: 11:00 AM 02/01/12 - Police in southwestern Pennsylvania say a woman who appeared to not have any teeth in surveillance photos from a bank robbery last month has confessed, apologized and said she planned the heist because she needed the money for dentures.
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Nearly 14-Pound Baby Boy Born in Des Moines
Last Updated: 9:37 AM 01/30/12 - An Iowa woman has given birth to a boy weighing 13 pounds and 13 ounces, without the aid of surgery.
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'Milk' Truck Promotes Breast Feeding
Artist Jill Miller is taking her pro-breast feeding message on the road.
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Thousands Take Polar Bear Plunge in Chesapeake Bay
Last Updated: 7:02 PM 01/29/12 - Thousands of people clad in bathing trunks, bikinis and even some woolly winter hats have taken the Polar Bear Plunge into the Chesapeake Bay for charity.
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Wyoming 19-year-old fined $200 for doughnut theft
Last Updated: 12:45 AM 01/26/12 - A 19-year-old college student accused of swiping a doughnut in Powell, Wyoming is going to be paying a pretty penny for that pastry.
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Embarrassing 'SHCOOL' Sign Replaced in NYC
Last Updated: 12:46 PM 01/25/12 - An embarrassing misspelling of "school" is gone from the street outside a New York City school building.
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Michigan University Cop Faces Prison for Convincing Girls to Flash
Last Updated: 6:24 AM 01/25/12 - It's a case of an officer-gone-wild. A former campus cop in Mount Pleasant Michigan, faces up to five years in prison, after getting two Central Michigan University coeds to flash their breasts.
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Cops: Mass. Woman Stole Soda Just for Can Deposit
Last Updated: 11:43 AM 01/24/12 - Authorities say a Massachusetts woman bought $64 worth of soda using a stolen welfare benefits card, then immediately fed the full cans into the supermarket's automated redemption machine for the nickel deposit.
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NYC Officials Dodge Blame Over 'SHCOOL X-NG' Sign
Last Updated: 11:27 AM 01/24/12 - Everyone who's ever gone to school should know how to spell "school."
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Alaska Woman, 85, Uses Shovel to Fend Off Moose
Last Updated: 8:15 AM 01/24/12 - An 85-year-old Alaska woman used a grain shovel to fend off an agitated moose that was stomping her husband.
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No Smoking Allowed on Planes Rule- Includes Pot
Last Updated: 6:09 AM 01/24/12 - Man arrested for smoking pot on airplane.
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Purported Bonnie and Clyde Guns Sell for $210K
Last Updated: 9:17 AM 01/23/12 - Two guns thought to have been used by bank-robbing fugitives Bonnie and Clyde have been snatched up $210,000 at an auction in Kansas City, Mo.
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Police Search Home of Man Whose Head Was in Park
Last Updated: 9:16 PM 01/22/12 - Police have removed more evidence from the Los Angeles apartment of a man whose head, hands and feet were found last week in a hillside park near the famed "Hollywood" sign.
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12 Girls Form Tics That Doc Calls Psychological
Last Updated: 6:13 AM 01/21/12 - A dozen western New York high school girls have developed involuntary tics and other symptoms, and a doctor says at least 10 of them are suffering from a psychological condition usually brought on by stress or a frightening condition.
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Man Didn't Know He'd Shot Nail into His Brain
Last Updated: 11:27 AM 01/20/12 - A suburban Chicago man thought the errant nail that discharged from the gun he was working with had whizzed by his head. Instead, it was lodged in his brain.
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Goat Missing from Minnesota Nativity Found Safe
Last Updated: 9:10 AM 01/20/12 - A goat that escaped a Minnesota Nativity scene is safe after 25 days on the loose.
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Couple Can Use Awning to Shade Son
Last Updated: 9:11 AM 01/19/12 - The parents of a Pittsburgh boy who has health aversions to sunlight can add a retractable awning to the front of their home.
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That's No Rat! Opossum Takes Ride on NYC Subway
Last Updated: 12:06 PM 01/18/12 - A suspicious passenger of the four-legged variety led to the evacuation of a New York City subway car.
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Nebraskan Sues Over 'Total Idiot' Description
Last Updated: 5:41 PM 01/17/12 - A housing inspector has sued a Seward real estate agent and her company over an email that he says she sent to more than 400 people, calling him a "total idiot."
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NJ Mom Gives Birth to Child on Train to NYC
Last Updated: 11:20 AM 01/17/12 - A New Jersey woman got the morning commute of her life when she gave birth to her first child on a commuter train to New York City.
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Check Lincoln Wrote Day Before Being Shot Is Found
Last Updated: 7:26 AM 01/15/12 - A personal check that Abraham Lincoln wrote the day before he was assassinated is among those that were rediscovered by an Ohio bank.
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Out of Room, Man Gives Up 94 Hamsters
Last Updated: 7:25 AM 01/15/12 - A Massachusetts man has turned over 94 hamsters to a local animal shelter, telling officials he was running out of room in his apartment.
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Oregon Farmer's Stolen Rabbits Returned
Last Updated: 8:20 AM 01/14/12 - Portland police say more than a dozen rabbits reported stolen the night before a rabbit-cooking class have been returned by bunny advocates who had been caring for them.
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Man Arrested for Playing Too Much Cowbell
Last Updated: 8:14 AM 01/14/12 - Demonstrators calling for the recall of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker learned there really is such a thing as too much cowbell.
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After Cancer Hit, Women Lobbied for A Bald Barbie
Last Updated: 4:40 PM 01/11/12 - Barbie has been an astronaut, an architect, a Nascar driver, and a news anchor.
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NJ Mini Terrier named Smallest Working Dog
Last Updated: 3:23 PM 01/11/12 - A mini Yorkshire terrier from New Jersey is now in the Guinness Book of World Records.
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Stolen New Mexico Meteorite Worth $20K-$40K Found
Last Updated: 11:08 AM 01/10/12 - A meteorite that landed in Russia in the 1940s and was recently stolen from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque has been located.
Bear Spray Empties Baptist Church in Anchorage
Last Updated: 2:41 PM 01/09/12 - Authorities in Alaska say a church congregation in Anchorage evacuated Sunday morning services because of a carbon monoxide scare that turned out to be bear spray someone shot off in the basement.
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Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop Arrested in Wis.
Last Updated: 5:44 AM 01/09/12 - Authorities in southern Wisconsin are facing a tongue twister thanks to the arrest of Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop.
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Horse Left at Ohio Amish-Area Walmart Needs Home
Last Updated: 5:54 AM 01/08/12 - Wally the Walmart horse is looking for a new home.
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Couple Finds $4,500 Wedding Ring in Dog's Stomach
Last Updated: 11:34 AM 01/05/12 - A couple has found a suspect in the disappearance of their $4,500 wedding ring -- their 10-month old basset hound.
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Jan. 4 Birthday Runs in the Family in Ohio
Last Updated: 2:59 PM 01/04/12 - Jan. 4 birthdays have been running in one Ohio family for four generations.
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Security Camera Shows Man Stealing Security Camera
Last Updated: 6:34 PM 01/04/12 - In an effort to steal more than $10,000 in equipment from a local landscaping business, a thief disabled a security camera - but not all of them.
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Run Ends for Ohio Man's Secret Santa Bearing Pies
Last Updated: 6:40 AM 01/04/12 - A Secret Santa has told an Ohio man not to expect any more pecan pies, which arrived mysteriously for 35 years.
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California Prisoner Steals Fire Engine to Escape
Last Updated: 10:58 AM 01/03/12 - An official says an inmate escaped from a state prison in San Diego County by stealing the prison fire engine on New Year's Day.
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PETA Seeks Memorials to Cows Killed on Illinois Roads
Last Updated: 7:35 AM 12/31/11 - An animal rights group wants Illinois to install highway signs in memory of cattle killed when trucks hauling them flipped in two separate wrecks.
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Police Say Thief Proposed with Stolen Ring
Last Updated: 3:40 PM 12/28/11 - A diamond engagement ring didn't have the outcome a Vermont man had hoped for. His girlfriend said yes, but the ring landed him in jail.
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Proposed Bill Would Ban Cheery SC Greeting Mandate
Last Updated: 12:11 PM 12/28/11 - Two South Carolina legislators say state employees shouldn't have to answer the phone with Gov. Nikki Haley's mandated cheery greeting unless it's truly a great day in South Carolina.
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Massachusetts Woman Says TSA Confiscated Frosted Cupcake
Last Updated: 8:35 PM 12/23/11 - A Massachusetts woman says an airport security officer in Las Vegas confiscated her frosted cupcake because he thought the icing on it could be a security risk.
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1941 Fruitcake in Ohio Sells for $525
Last Updated: 8:33 PM 12/23/11 - A 1941 fruitcake has sold for $525 to an Arizona man in an Ohio company's online auction, and the money will go to the homeless in southwest Ohio.
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Runaway Cat Found 2,000 Miles Away
Last Updated: 12:22 PM 12/23/11 - An orange striped tabby cat that ran away from its home in Florida has been found -- more than 2,000 miles away on a snowy street in Colorado.
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Man Returned to Beer after Bank Robbery
Last Updated: 12:20 PM 12/23/11 - Authorities say a Tampa Bay area man ordered a beer at a bar, left to rob a nearby bank then came back to finish his beer.
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Scrapbook Tells How Rudolph Went Down in History
Last Updated: 12:17 PM 12/23/11 - Curious about how Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer really went down in history? It's all in the pages of a long-overlooked scrapbook compiled by Rudolph's creator and housed at his alma mater, Dartmouth College.
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More Developments In The Case Of The Stolen Fish
Last Updated: 9:39 AM 12/21/11 - Something fishy happened over the weekend - nearly 60 exotic fish stolen from a store. But things just keep getting worse for the business owner.
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NY OK's Burying Human Ashes in Pet Cemeteries
Last Updated: 11:50 AM 12/20/11 - New York is once again allowing animal lovers to rest in peace with their pets in pet cemeteries.
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56 Tropical Fish Go Missing
Last Updated: 8:34 AM 12/20/11 - 56 tropical fish are missing from a Lincoln pet shop.
Feds Issue Warning to Unconventional Sperm Donor
Last Updated: 8:38 AM 12/19/11 - Federal officials have issued a warning to a California man who has been donating cups of his sperm to women who want kids.
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2 Cited for Shoplifting Become Crime Victims
Last Updated: 5:43 AM 12/18/11 - Police in Utah say a vehicle was burglarized outside an Ogden store while its owners were being accused of shoplifting from the business.
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