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Sunday, November 30, 2008

Late workers, students get notes blaming NY subway

By Associated Press
NEW YORK - Students late for school and workers late for their jobs because of New York City subway delays can get notes from the transit agency to give to...

Let’s try a more direct approach

By Mike Pingree / Through the Looking Glass
A Tampa, Fla., family therapist who works with parents to help them correct their children’s behavior using “dynamic parenting” was arrested...
Saturday, November 29, 2008

Station takes call letters of TV show

By Associated Press
CINCINNATI - WKRP is back on the air in Cincinnati — but this time it’s for real. A low-power TV station has changed its call letters to WKRP,...
Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Texas police turn traffic tickets into toy drive

By Associated Press
SANSOM PARK, Texas - Some police officers in a Texas suburb are playing Santa Claus with naughty drivers. For the next...
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Seuss lawyers stop holiday Who-ville in Louisville

By Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - There will be no Who-ville in Louisville this Christmas. The city of Louisville is scrapping plans to...
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Monday, November 24, 2008

NC carjacking suspect clubbed with frozen turkey

By Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. - Stopped. Cold turkey. North Carolina authorities say a shopper clubbed an alleged carjacker with a frozen...
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Colebrook, NH, selling old parking meters

By Associated Press
COLEBROOK, N.H. - Parking is free in downtown Colebrook, N.H.. It’s the parking meters themselves that will cost you. The...
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Word to the wise: Charity begins at home

By Associated Press
ATLANTA - Only months after winning $1 million on a television game show - and giving it away to charity - state Schools...
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NYC public toilets feature TVs, tuxedoed attendants

By Associated Press
NEW YORK - What a relief! The free public restrooms operated by the Charmin toilet paper company in Times Square during the...
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Sunday, November 23, 2008

Can you call anyone who’s not drunk?

By Mike Pingree / Through the Looking Glass
A woman was arrested in Schererville, Ind., for driving drunk with her 1-year-old son in the car. She called her husband, but when he arrived at the police...
Saturday, November 22, 2008

Nude pics in phone lost at McDonald’s get online

By Associated Press
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Here’s some food for thought: If you have nude photos of your wife on your cell phone, hang onto...
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Musical at Iowa college acts out scary Bible tales

This photo, supplied by Northwestern College, shows Ben Bees from Yucca Valley, Calif., who has a part in ‘Terror Texts,’ a musical at Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa.
By Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa - Don’t expect to hear these Bible stories at church. Cannibalism, rape, a bear that mauls...
Friday, November 21, 2008

Man says cell phone saved him from stray bullet

By Associated Press
COVINGTON, La. - R.J. Richard says he doesn’t normally put his cell phone in his chest pocket. But he says it saved his life the one time he did. The...
Thursday, November 20, 2008

Police: Dog drives van into NY coffee house

By Associated Press
ST. JAMES, N.Y. - A dog left inside a running van put the vehicle in drive, causing it to crash into a Long Island coffee...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Airline takes woman to Puerto Rico instead of Fla.

By Associated Press
TAMPA, Fla. - Employees at US Airways are looking into how an 83-year-old woman in a wheelchair flying from New York to Tampa, Fla., instead found herself at...

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