YouTube Helps N.H. Woman Find Bone Marrow Donor
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,27
Leigh Buckley from Derry, N.H. found a bone marrow donor after her friends posted a video of her on YouTube.com.
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Charges Dropped In Goat Spray-Painting Case
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,27
Criminal charges have been dropped against a Mahopac, N.Y. man whom police charged last fall with animal cruelty and burglary for breaking into a barn and spray-painting three goats.
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World's Best Pizza Comes From N.Y.
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,27
A Staten Island, N.Y. pizza shop is now known for having the "world's best" slice after winning a big competition in Las Vegas.
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Chicago Rabbi To Have Bar Mitzvah At 83 Years Old
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,27
Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf is 70 years older than most bar mitzvah hopefuls. The 83-year-old is planning the traditional Jewish rite of passage ceremony -- usually done at age 13-- for Saturday.
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Zoo Hopes 'Panda Porn' Will Help Pandas Mate
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,27
Chuang Chuang the panda has been spending his days in front of a big screen television watching panda porn.
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Group Finds 'Monster' Toad The Size Of A Small Dog
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,27
An environmental group said Tuesday it had captured a "monster" toad the size of a small dog.
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Thief Steals 93 Pounds Of Bras And Panties
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,27
A man was charged with theft and burglary after police said they found 93 pounds of women's panties, brassieres and other underwear at his home.
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Person Pays $1 Parking Ticket 27 Years Late
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,27
A $1 parking ticket from 1980 has been paid off, after the offender sent the payment along with a $3 late fee to police - without giving a name.
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Beijing burglar makes his bed and sleeps in it
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,27
A Beijing worker who broke into luxury villas to steal property and get a good night's sleep has been jailed for a year, Chinese media has reported.
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Police Shut Down Bus Converted Into Matzo-Factory
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,27
A school bus that had been converted into a supersized oven for Passover matzos, complete with smokestack, exhaust fans and working fire, was fueled by gas lines illegally attached to a nearby house, authorities said Monday.
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Today In History - March 27, 2007
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,27
Today is Tuesday, March 27, the 86th day of 2007. There are 279 days left in the year.
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Aussie serial hugger wins YouTube award
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,27
A Sydney man on a goodwill mission to hug strangers has picked up an inaugural YouTube Video Award.
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Woman Has Crocodiles Strapped To Body
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Mar,26
A woman with three crocodiles strapped to her waist was stopped at the Gaza-Egypt border crossing after guards noticed that she looked "strangely fat," officials said Monday.
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Deer Crashes Through Chuck E. Cheese
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Mar,26
Customers at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant got more than they bargained for when a deer crashed through the restaurant. The deer jumped through the window at the pizza restaurant at Southern Hills Mall on Sunday.
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Tattoo-Artist Inmate Paints For Police
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Mar,26
A western Kentucky jail inmate who's got a talent for tattooing fellow inmates has been given a new job: sprucing up the jail's walls with murals. Robert Penrose says he's applied tattoos to inmates by using the spring from inside an ink pen, the motor from a CD player and alcohol "ink" colored with M&Ms or Skittles.
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Monster toad captured in NT
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Mar,26
FrogWatch says last night's toad bust in Darwin's northern suburbs uncovered what it says is the biggest cane toad ever to be caught in the Northern Territory.
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T-Rex Skull Auctioned For $276,000
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Mar,26
The skull of a large carnivorous dinosaur and the tusk of a shaggy-coated mammoth from the Ice Age sold for a combined $372,000 at a natural history auction Sunday, auction officials said.
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Thai panda gets daily dose of porn
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Mar,26
A Thai zoo has put a young but sexually inactive male giant panda on an intensive mating course that includes daily pornographic videos and a low-carb diet, a zoo official says.
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Mormon Church Objects To Angel T-Shirt
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Mar,26
For a coffee shop, T-shirts of a Mormon angel with java flowing into his trumpet are selling well. But they don't have the blessing of religious leaders.
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Recycled Waste? Panda Poop Could Become Paper
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Mar,26
There's a new Chinese saying: When life hands you panda poop, make paper. Researchers at a giant panda reserve in southern China are looking for paper mills to process their surplus of fiber-rich panda excrement into high quality paper.
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Mouse Absconds With Maine Man's Dentures
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Mar,26
Never underestimate a mouse's determination. There's a mouse in Bill Exner's house that he says he has captured three times. Each time, the mouse escaped, and the last time the rodent made off with his lower dentures.
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Wis. Couple Have Baby At Nearly 100 MPH
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Mar,26
Jereme Tauer Jr. was born at almost 100 mph as his parents hurtled down U.S. Highway 2 in northernmost Wisconsin in a Dodge Neon. His parents, Jereme and Lisa Tauer of Hurley, managed the birth without a doctor, pain medication or even stopping the car.
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Amorous camels may force outback dog fence rethink
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Mar,25
A population explosion of camels in South Australia's outback may force a redesign of a section of the state's dog fence.
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Qld students hope to build on success at US Lego contest
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Mar,25
A group of far north Queensland primary school students is about to take on the world at Lego.
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Weak Tornado Caught On Tape In Lubbock
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Mar,25
A tornado was caught on tape by CBS affiliate KLBK in Lubbock on Sunday. It's what meteorologists call a 'Cold Air Funnel.' That's a weak tornado that occurs in a cool air mass.
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Sheriff: Slain Student Burned On Grill
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Mar,25
A 19-year-old Texas A&M University student was killed by her ex-boyfriend, who then dismembered and burned her body on a patio grill, authorities said Saturday.
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Dairy Creates Wine-Flavored Ice Cream
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Mar,25
A central New York dairy is raising eyebrows with their latest creation: wine-flavored ice cream.After about two years of product development, Boonville's Mercer's Ice Cream has created ice cream in three different wine flavors. There's Ala Port Wine, Peachy White Zinfandel and Red Raspberry Chardonnay.
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Harlequin books seeks 'real men' for covers
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Mar,24
Real men don't pose for the cover of a Harlequin romance.
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Stop the clocks: make it British time everywhere
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Mar,24
As many countries around the world adjust their clocks to mark the beginning or end of daylight saving, one British newspaper has suggested we should ditch the idea - and make it GMT everywhere around the world.
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Old Bras Find New Life As Womens' Hangbags
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Mar,24
The handbags are designed to look beautiful, with pretty flowers and feathers everywhere, but they hide a secret: A previous life as womens' bras.
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Entrepreneur Sells Paper Filled With Mug Shots
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Mar,24
America loves a good mug shot. The more frizzed, frazzled and frantic, the better. An Orlando entrepreneur has seized on that fascination, recently starting "JAIL," a weekly newspaper filled with nothing but the unflattering thumbnails. Page after page, with only a few ads in between.
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Student Group Fights 'Mindless Sex' At Harvard
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Mar,24
Sometime between the founding of a student-run porn magazine and the day the campus health center advertised "Free Lube," Harvard University seniors Sarah Kinsella and Justin Murray decided to fight back against what they see as too much mindless sex at the Ivy League school.
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Ky. Couple Allegedly Offered Kid For $3,000, SUV
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Mar,24
A Kentucky couple are charged with trying to sell a 15-month-old girl for $3,000 and a sport-utility vehicle.
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World media nuts about Knut
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Mar,24
Knut, a polar bear cub who has become a global sensation after surviving rejection by his mother, has made his first public appearance at the Berlin Zoo under the gaze of the world's media.
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Underwear thieves outwit anti-theft equipment
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Mar,24
OddThree brazen New Jersey shoplifters made off with nearly $US12,000 in women's underwear by stuffing the goods into bags designed to foil anti-theft equipment at a Victoria's Secret store while the shop was open for business.
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Today In History - March 24, 2007
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Mar,24
Today is Saturday, March 24, the 83rd day of 2007. There are 282 days left in the year.
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Houdini may make one final appearance
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Mar,23
A descendant of Harry Houdini wants his body exhumed to test a theory that the famed escape artist was murdered 81 years ago, a spokesman for the family's lawyer said.
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'Pimp Of The Year' Sentenced To 23 Years In Prison
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Mar,23
A man who touted himself as "Pimp of the Year" was sentenced Friday to more than 23 years in federal prison.
Matthew "Knowledge" Thompkins pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy to transport minors to engage in prostitution and conspiracy to engage in money laundering.
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Florida Pilot To Make Historic Flight
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Mar,23
Barrington Irving is set to embark on a historic flight Friday. Irving is attempting to become the youngest person and first black pilot to fly around the world solo.
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Knut The Polar Bear Delights Fans On First Day Out
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Mar,23
Television crews and photographers jockeyed with hundreds of excited children at Berlin's Zoo on Friday, all eager to for a first glimpse of a fuzzy white polar bear cub who has captured hearts across the globe.
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N.J. Baker Makes Jumbo-Sized Bread For Circus
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Mar,23
Frank Formica's task is bigger than a loaf of bread but smaller than an elephant. Actually, his comapny is making 300 loaves of bread for a half-dozen elephants. "I thought it had to be a joke - come on, elephant bread? Right," he said.
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Today In History - March 23, 2007
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Mar,23
Today is Friday, March 23, the 82nd day of 2007. There are 283 days left in the year.
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N.J. Baker Whips Up Bread For Elephants
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Mar,23
Frank Formica's task is bigger than a loaf of bread but smaller than an elephant. Actually, it IS a loaf of bread for an elephant. Make that 300 loaves of bread for a half-dozen elephants.
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L.A. Minister Sues Over Marijuana Bust
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Mar,23
A minister who was arrested on charges of marijuana possession has sued police for $30 million, contending his civil and religious rights were violated because he heads a church that uses pot during worship.
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Woman Buys Over $1K In Tainted Pet Food
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,22
A woman said she was so worried about reports of tainted pet food she spent more than $1,000 buying all the product she could find at her local Wal-Mart. Margaret Trask said she filled a shopping cart full of canned pet food made by Canadian company Menu Foods at the Beaufort Wal-Mart after hearing about the recall Friday.
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Septic Reminder Idea Raises Big Stink
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,22
The idea of making rural residents pay $9 a year for a postcard reminder to get their septic systems inspected sounds like a load of you-know-what to some local officials.
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W.Va. Woman, 82, Foils Purse Snatcher
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,22
A man who knocked down an 82-year-old woman and tried to snatch her purse, ran away with nothing after she refused to give it up. The Wheeling woman was attacked at about 5 p.m. Wednesday as she and her husband were walking to one of their favorite's restaurants, said police Lt. Gary Gaus.
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Melbourne stinker nudges record
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,22
Melbourne has experienced a near-record overnight temperature.
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Exhumation Sought For Harry Houdini
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,22
Escape artist Harry Houdini's great-nephew wants to have his relative exhumed to determine if he was murdered in 1926.
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New $250 Balloon Releasing Fine Passed In N.H.
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Mar,22
Lawmakers in New Hampshire's House have passed a bill which allows police to issue $250 fines to anyone who releases a balloon.
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