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Sheriff: Family cremated mom on BBQ, kept benefits
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Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:42:50 GMT |
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Thou Shalt Not Steal may have been a better topic
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Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:42:07 GMT |
| AP - Authorities are looking for two people who allegedly stole a preacher's wallet and went on a shopping spree while he was giving a sermon about showing mercy to others. |
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Note to self: Taser no good on wild boars
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Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:42:03 GMT |
| AP - While normally effective on people, a Hernando deputy learned the hard way that Taser stun guns do not work very well on wild boars. |
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Suit against God thrown out over lack of address
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Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:42:03 GMT |
| AP - A judge has thrown out a Nebraska legislator's lawsuit against God, saying the Almighty wasn't properly served due to his unlisted home address. State Sen. Ernie Chambers filed the lawsuit last year seeking a permanent injunction against God. |
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Dozens get gas in Wis. for 35 cents after mistake
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Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:48:48 GMT |
| AP - Sure, gas prices have come down lately. But to 34.9 cents a gallon? That's what Kelly Joosten and dozens of other motorists paid at a Citgo station Monday. The sign advertised $3.43 for a gallon of premium fuel, but the pump cost read $0.349 a gallon. |
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Boxer soothes fists with son's wet diapers
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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:51:59 GMT |
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"Gomorra" author to flee Italy after death threat
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Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:22:54 GMT |
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Warning: turn your MP3 players down!
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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:50:58 GMT |
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More than 100 sick as too many cooks spoil broth
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Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:54:33 GMT |
| Reuters - Some 170 wedding banquet guests were rushed to hospital in north China when powdered rust remover was added to the pot instead of salt after they all decided it needed added flavor, Chinese media said. |
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Official undone by tight trouser crackdown
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Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:54:01 GMT |
| Reuters - A senior official in South Sudan who ordered a crackdown on young women wearing tight trousers has been sacked, officials said Saturday. |
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Women ride Vienna dancing horses after 436 years
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Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:49:57 GMT |
| Reuters - An Austrian and a Briton have made history at Vienna's Spanish Riding School by becoming the first female riders to pass the entrance exam and trial period in 436 years. |
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Watch who you shake hands with up North
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Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:14:19 GMT |
| Reuters - People in the north of Britain are three times as likely to have hands contaminated with faecal bacteria than their compatriots in the south, scientists studying toilet hygiene said on Wednesday. |
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Paris gold changers busy as crisis spooks savers
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Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:20:47 GMT |
| Reuters - A few steps away from the Paris stock exchange and its see-sawing share prices, gold changers have seen a sharp rise in the number of customers walking in the door in search of profits or just of a safe haven. |
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Man making kebab next to corpse hit by ban
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Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:49:19 GMT |
| Reuters - A man discovered making kebabs near a corpse has been banned from managing food businesses and fined 3,800 pounds, Wolverhampton City Council said on Tuesday. |
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Three face court over kangaroo T-shirts
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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:20:24 GMT |
| Reuters - Three people who showed up at Singapore's supreme court in T-shirts printed with a kangaroo dressed in a judge's gown will be brought to court for contempt, Singapore's attorney general said on Tuesday. |
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32 cats, note from ill owner left with Ala. vets
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Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:17:40 GMT |
| AP - Five veterinary clinics in eastern Alabama received 32 surprises in the last week: Healthy cats in containers and carriers, along with notes from an anonymous donor saying she is dying from cancer. |
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Rabbit invasion shuts Mandela museum
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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:22:43 GMT |
| Reuters - South African's Robben Island museum will be closed while authorities cull a colony of rabbits that has invaded the site where Nelson Mandela was jailed. |
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Prosthetic eye gives horse a shot at show career
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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:15:24 GMT |
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Sons of Russian and U.S. astronauts unite in orbit
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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:20:49 GMT |
| Reuters - The sons of a Russian cosmonaut and a U.S. astronaut met in space Tuesday when spaceman Sergei Volkov welcomed American Richard Garriott on board the International Space Station. |
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Missouri grandmother's curiosity squashes scam
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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:15:04 GMT |
| AP - Delpha Speak has 13 grandchildren and she didn't think it was completely implausible that one of her grandsons-in-law would call her to say he was in trouble. The 72-year-old retiree could tell something was wrong, and she wanted to do whatever she could to help. |
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