Chestnut Takes A Bite Out Of Wing Bowl 15
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Feb,02
Thousands woke up before the sun to take part in an event involving a set of scantily clad women and a group of voracious eaters for Wing Bowl 15. Despite a valiant effort, the local chomps could not bring down the defending champ, who polished of a staggering 182 wings, setting a new Wing Bowl record.
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Groundhog Day brings prediction of early US spring
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Feb,02
The world's most famous groundhog emerged from his burrow early on Friday (local time) to predict an early spring in the United States for the first time in eight years.
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Dutch Gym To Introduce 'Naked Sunday'
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Feb,02
Self-conscious about what you wear while working out? A Dutch gym plans to introduce "Naked Sunday" for people who like to huff and puff in the buff.
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Fantasy Football Payout: Man Wins Super Bowl Trip
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Feb,02
A Minnesotan is making a trip to the Super Bowl, without spending a dime. Josh Vogel lives in Albany and he won the trip to Miami through CBS Sportsline's Fantasy Football Challenge.
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Magic Johnson Sends Contest Winner To Super Bowl
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Feb,02
Magic Johnson is a legend to millions of basketball fans, but he is trying to make one football fan a very happy person this weekend.
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$500,000 In Pot Found In Utah Home
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Feb,02
Two men behind bars after a major pot bust in Utah, investigators were tipped off to a home where they found 131 pot plants.
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Police Investigating Possible Fake Sobriety Stops
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Feb,02
The men, claiming to be police officers, pulled over several cars Jan. 20 in Round Rock, Texas.
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Meth Users Turning To Urine To Get High
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Feb,02
When Wright County deputies opened up a smelly rented storage locker last June, they had no idea what they would find. Inside a man had stored 50 gallon jugs of urine.
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New York College Allows Underage Drinking In Class
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Feb,02
Underage students at a college in Rochester, N.Y. get to drink beer and wine during class -- and it's legal.
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Groundhog Punxsutawney Phil Predicts Early Spring
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Feb,02
A new pair of hands pulled Punxsutawney Phil from his stump this year, so it was only fitting that the groundhog offered a new prediction.
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Pa. School Board Bans Groundhog Day Cookies
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Feb,02
Shadow or no shadow, a Pennsylvania school board has pulled the plug on a 10-year tradition of passing out cookies shaped like Punxsutawney Phil to students from kindergarten through the fourth grade.
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Groundhog Fans Look Downward
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Feb,02
Will spring come early or will winter hang on for six more weeks? We'll know a little later this morning when Punxsutawney Phil makes his annual prediction.
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Today In History - Feb. 2, 2007
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Feb,02
Today is Friday, February 2, the 33rd day of 2007. There are 332 days left in the year. This is Groundhog Day.
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Fake Employer Took Women's Urine Samples
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Feb,02
A 36-year-old Omaha man accused of luring women to his home and taking urine samples when they thought they were applying for a job was found guilty Thursday of two counts of criminal impersonation.
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Chicago Police Searching For Spa Thief
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Feb,02
Police in the Chicago suburb of Algonquin on Thursday continued to search for a thief who looks, smells and feels marvelous. Algonquin Police Detective Andrew Doles said the man has ordered up an array of services in at least 20 spas in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin since last March and left without paying the bill.
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Remote golf course sees first ever grass
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,01
Two good summer soakings have produced the first ever grass on one of Australia's most remote golf courses.
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'Fish Man' to face crocs, piranhas in Amazon swim
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,01
A Slovenian man is looking to become the first person to swim 5,400 kilometres down South America's Amazon River.
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Swimwear PR Stunt Combines Bikinis & Ice Fishing
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,01
A swimwear designer sent in the press release and who could resist? Models in bikinis went ice fishing on White Bear Lake in Minnesota Wednesday afternoon.
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Man, Yoda The Dog Travel On Riding Mower
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,01
Joined by his dog Yoda, Paul Woods travels by day and sleeps in a tent at night. His vehicle: a riding mower. "You've got to be pretty strange and pretty weird to be driving a tractor mower across country," Woods, 44, said.
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Bill To Fine Parents For Skipping Teacher Meetings
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,01
A Republican state lawmaker from Baytown, Texas has filed a bill that would charge parents of public school students with a Class C misdemeanor and fine them for playing hooky from a scheduled parent-teacher conference.
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Grinch Couple Charged In UPS Thefts
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,01
An Illinois couple accused of following a UPS truck and stealing packages off northwest Indiana doorsteps has been charged with five counts of theft.
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Alcohol In Hand Sanitizer Poses Abuse Risk
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,01
Prison officials and poison control centers can add a new substance to their list of intoxicants hand sanitizer.
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Giant Baby Causes Sensation In Cancun
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,01
He is called "Super Tonio," and at a whopping birth weight of 14.5 pounds, the little fellow is causing a sensation in a Mexican resort city.
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Today In History - Feb. 1, 2007
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,01
Today is Thursday, February 1, the 32nd day of 2007. There are 333 days left in the year.
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Puppies Have Surgery For Cleft Palates
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Feb,01
Two puppies born with cleft palates have had their first corrective surgeries and are said to be doing well. The puppies were taken in by the Little Shelter Animal Adoption Center in Huntington, N.Y., last year, after a worker found them in a New York City shelter, unable to eat and likely to die.
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French Health Minister Seeks Nap Study
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jan,31
The French already enjoy a 35-hour work week and generous vacation. Now the health minister wants to look into whether workers should be allowed to sleep on the job.
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Postie's prank fails to amuse
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jan,31
A New Zealand postal worker who is in trouble for scrawling abusive comments on school exam results says it was all supposed to be a joke.
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Bears Fan Seeking 'Date' For Super Bowl
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jan,31
A lifelong Chicago Bears fan with a curvy figure, a creative mind, and no ticket to the Super Bowl is praising the internet for helping her cause.
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Florida Braces For Super Bowl Halftime Flush
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jan,31
As football fans from around the world focus in on the big game taking place this Sunday, South Florida residents not attending the Super Bowl are being warned about the dreaded Halftime Flush.
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Commercial Rocket Explodes On Ocean Launch Pad
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jan,31
A rocket carrying a commercial communications satellite exploded at launch Tuesday in the Pacific Ocean.
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'Bonnie And Clyde' Couple Stole For Trips, Wedding
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jan,31
Another arrest in what has been called the "Bonnie and Clyde" case of Utah County. And many are still asking the question: How could the young couple be accused of such a crime?
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N.Y. Monks To Sell Baked Goods Online
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jan,31
A New York order of monks who don't watch TV or listen to the radio will soon be going high-tech to offer their baked goods for sale on the Internet.
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Today In History - Jan. 31, 2007
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jan,31
Today is Wednesday, January 31, the 31st day of 2007. There are 334 days left in the year.
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Al The Tolerant Owl Moves Into Ore. Home
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jan,31
Saws buzz and carpenters hammer nails, set up ladders and run an air generator. Al doesn't give a hoot. The brownish Western screech-owl showed up at Laura Fenimore's house as she began adding what will be her new great room.
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'Bare Nekkid Mainers' Enjoy Buff Bowling
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jan,31
When members of the Bare Nekkid Mainers rent the Old Town Bowling Center, all they really need are the shoes. "Hey, you can't go skinny-dipping at this time of year," Hessa, who organizes the gatherings and wanted to be identified only by her first name, told the Bangor Daily News.
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Newlyweds Accused Of Robbing Utah Bank
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jan,31
Two newlyweds were arrested and accused of robbing a Utah County bank, just weeks after getting married. Kylee and Joshua Rich of Lehi are due in federal court Wednesday to hear the charges.
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Paris To Roll Out Free Bicycles
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jan,31
The City of Light wants to soon become a city of bicycles. Paris City Hall announced it has selected French outdoor advertising firm JCDecaux SA to operate a new free bicycle service in the capital.
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Gangsters happier with 'jobs' than police
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Jan,30
South Korean gangsters get more satisfaction from their line of work than the police, a report says.
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N.J. School To Test Students For Weekend Drinking
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Jan,30
Teens who drink alcohol could be caught three days later under a high school's new testing policy for students.
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Tarot Reader Allegedly Taped Teens Having Sex
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Jan,30
A Minneapolis tarot card reader has been charged for convincing a teenage couple to have sex in his office so he could videotape the act.
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Report: Minnesota Senator Injured Dumpster Diving
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Jan,30
Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) injured his forehead two weekends ago dumpster diving, a Washington Post blogger reports.
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Wisconsin Lawyer Picks Up Drunk Client, Gets DUI
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Jan,30
Police arrested a Wisconsin lawyer for drunken driving after he went to the station to pick up a client who had been arrested for the same offense.
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Robot Parking Garage To Open In New York
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Jan,30
Would you trust a robot to park your car? The question will confront New Yorkers in February as the city's first robotic parking opens in Chinatown.
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Powerball Winner, 84, Rakes In $254 Million
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Jan,30
A World War II veteran and his family stepped forward Monday to claim a Powerball jackpot worth more than a quarter-billion dollars, one of the largest single-ticket lottery prizes in U.S. history.
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Thieves Race Car Through Danish Store
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Jan,29
Would-be thieves raced a car through the ground floor of a department store but left empty-handed after failing to ram it into the jewelry section, police said Monday.
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Man Tries To Rob Store Dressed As Ninja
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Jan,29
Richfield, Minn. police are looking for a man who attempted to rob a Lunds grocery store in Richfield Saturday evening dressed as a ninja.
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Duck Shot By Hunter Cheats Death Again
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Jan,29
Perky is one tough bird. The ring-neck duck survived being shot and spending two days in a hunter's refrigerator -- and now she's had a close brush with death on a veterinarian's operating table.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Jan,29
Britain is launching a database of thousands of shoes and shoe types next month to help track down criminals.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Jan,29
Raymond Rodriguez was changing a tire when an 18-inch chunk of ice plummeted from the sky with a piercing whistle, then a metallic crunch. The ice chunk crushed the roof of a nearby Ford Mustang on Sunday morning. No one was hurt.
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Eagle Lugging A Deer Head Causes Outage
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Jan,29
About 10,000 Juneau residents briefly lost power Sunday after a bald eagle lugging a deer head crashed into transmission lines.
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