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‘Dumbest criminal’ nabbed in cop convention holdup
HARRISBURG, Pa. – A retired police chief said he was robbed by “probably the dumbest criminal in Pennsylvania,” at a police officers’ convention on Friday morning. John Comparetto said as he came out of a stall in the men’s room, a man pointed a gun in his face and demanded [...]
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Toilet sausage chef causes prison unit evacuation
CLALLAM BAY, Wash. – An inmate’s attempt to heat up sausages in his toilet went up in smoke when the cooking fire forced a unit evacuation at a Washington prison. Clallam Bay Corrections Center spokeswoman Denise Larson says 130 inmates were evacuated to a dining hall when smoke was spotted coming [...]
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Religion aside, monkey meat needs permit
NEW YORK – A federal judge in Brooklyn has rejected a Liberian woman’s religious reasons for smuggling endangered monkey meat into the country.
U.S. District Judge Raymond J. Dearie ruled Wednesday that Mamie Manneh’s faith didn’t preclude her from applying for permits to import exotic [...]
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Shamanic tradition & usage of Salvia
Shamanism traditions and beliefs are a part of modern & ancient American cultures, with a rich history spanning millennia’s, practitioners of shamanism who are known as shaman would communicate with the spirit world.
Villagers would come to shamans to cure ailments, moreover the responsibilities [...]
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Man assaults girlfriend with burger
VERO BEACH, Fla. – A Vero Beach man faces a domestic violence charge after authorities said he assaulted his girlfriend with a cheeseburger. An Indian River County Sheriff’s Office arrest report said a 22-year-old man and his girlfriend got into an argument as they sat in a car in front of their [...]
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Nude pics in phone lost at McDonald’s get online
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Here’s some food for thought: If you have nude photos of your wife on your cell phone, hang onto it.
Phillip Sherman of Arkansas learned that lesson after he left his phone behind at a McDonald’s restaurant and the photos ended up online. Now he and his wife, Tina, [...]
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‘Granny Robber’ suspect
CINCINNATI – Police in Ohio have arrested a 68-year-old woman on a bank robbery charge — and they want to know if she’s the so-called “Granny Robber” they’ve been seeking since last May.
Police in the southwest Ohio town of Franklin say a woman handed a note to a teller in [...]
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China zoo Panda bites student
BEIJING – A college student in southern China was bitten by a panda after he broke into the bear’s enclosure hoping to get a hug, state media and a park employee said Saturday.
The student was visiting Qixing Park with classmates on Friday when he jumped the 6.5-foot (2-meter) -high fence around [...]
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Australian Man sells boring ‘life’ for $383k
A man in Australia who was selling his “life” over the Internet — including his home, job and the chance to meet his friends — said Sunday he had sold the lot for 399,000 dollars (383,230 US).
British-born Ian Usher, 44, decided to sell his house in the western city of Perth along [...]
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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a baby..
A New Zealand couple is looking to call their newborn son Superman — but only because their chosen name of 4Real has been rejected by the government registry.
Pat and Sheena Wheaton say they will get around the decision by the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages by officially naming their [...]
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Contractor finds mummified baby in Toronto home
A Canadian contractor is looking for donations to fund a funeral after finding a mummified baby in the wall of a Toronto home.
Home renovator Bob Kinghorn found the tiny body, wrapped in an 80-year-old newspaper, as he was running a wire through the three-storey Kintyre Ave. home, in one of Toronto’s [...]
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“Till death do us marry” Indian weds corpse
An Indian woman, despairing over her lover’s accidental death when he fell down a well soon after their engagement, insisted on ceremonially marrying his corpse just minutes before the cremation.
“It was for just few minutes the girl was dressed as a bride and then as a widow,” K.M. [...]
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Maya to “cleanse” sacred site after Bush visit
Mayan leaders will spiritually “cleanse” ancient ruins in Guatemala after a visit by U.S. President George W. Bush, unpopular here because of foreign policies going back to Central America’s civil wars.
The leaders said they would hold a spiritual ceremony to restore “peace and [...]
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Prisoner freed after first hearing in 19 years
A Paraguayan man walked free on Wednesday after spending 19 years in prison without ever being tried.
Jose Garcia, 39, was held in the psychiatric wing of the Tacumbu prison in the capital Asuncion, but at his first court hearing in nearly two decades he was cleared of wrongdoing and immediately released, [...]
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Some coins lack ‘In God We Trust’
Posted by Nick on March 7, 2007 · 4 Comments
An unknown number of new George Washington dollar coins were mistakenly struck without their edge inscriptions, including “In God We Trust,” and made it past inspectors and into circulation, the U.S. Mint said Wednesday.
The properly struck dollar coins, bearing the likeness of George Washington, [...]
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