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  Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:53:00 +0200
An Asian elephant once addicted to heroin has been cured after three years of detoxification, Chinese animal-protection authorities said.
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  Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:26:14 +0200

The Idaho Vandals football team is dumping the letter "I" from the buttocks region of players' new pants following a season-opening 70-0 loss to the Arizona Wildcats.

  Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:05:22 +0200

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  Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:48:22 +0200

BELLEVILLE, Ill. - Look out Tiger Woods, 5-year-old Drew Gray's got game. The kindergartner had a hole-in-one _ though it doesn't count because it was on par-3 course _ last week on the 75-yard, fifth hole at ...

A Norwegian BASE jumper said he learned a hard lesson about tempting fate after surviving a spine-chilling crash from a mile-high mountain.

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  Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:57:11 +0200

It may not be a best-seller, but "Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers" has won a literary accolade: oddest book title of the past 30 years.

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A gang of unruly teenage bush parrots have wrought havoc at a bird sanctuary in New Zealand by using their powerful beaks to destroy nesting boxes.

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  Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:01:38 +0200

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A robber rolled into a Dallas convenience store came armed with a bat and a knife.

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Evelyn DeLeon watches as her umbrella cockatoo Luna keeps a eye on the neighborhood's coming and goings in Trenton, N.J.,Thursday, Sept.

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  Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:10:22 +0200

People calling a federal phone number to order duck stamps are instead greeted by a phone-sex line, due to a printing error the government says would be too expensive to correct.

Chattanooga firefighters rescued several cats during a house fire that investigators say was probably caused by the cats themselves.

  Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:06:11 +0200

After being shot five times, a western Nebraska man had to go to court to get his prosthetic leg back from prosecutors.

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  Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:36:03 +0200
No, no one at the ISP was arrested, so strike that from your mind. In this case, it was Carol Sinclair, a 53-year-old Halifax actress and playwright. Not your typical criminal, mind you.
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  Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:40:27 +0200
A California brewer has won the battle against the U.S. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau to put the slogan "Try Legal Weed" on its beer caps.
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  Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:34:30 +0200

A man was arrested after he allegedly responded to someone telling him to get a job by picking up a folding chair and striking another man with it three times.

  Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:33:25 +0200

It took five Canadian men working in rotation nearly three hours to land a mammoth 700-pound sturgeon from British Columbia's Fraser River.

  Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:32:12 +0200

GILBERT, Ariz. - A cat survived a 2 1/2-hour trip on a spare tire under her owner's truck.

  Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:31:13 +0200

A New York man is charged with selling $80,000 worth of stolen Victoria's Secret bras online.

  Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:07:59 +0200
You have probably heard of some rather strange locations to plan a wedding, but this gives the phrase "till death do us part" a whole new meaning... a funeral home!
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