Bathroom Break Delays Four Flights In N.H.
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,12
An air traffic controller's bathroom break delayed the takeoff and landing of four planes at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport in New Hampshire last week.
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Orangutans Play Video Games At Georgia Zoo
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,12
Four-year-old Bernas isn't the computer wizard his mom is, but he's learning. Just the other day he used his lips and feet to play a game on the touch-screen monitor as his mom, Madu, swung from vines and climbed trees. The two Sumatran orangutans at Zoo Atlanta are playing computer games while researchers study the cognitive skills of the orange and brown primates.
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Lawsuit: Dead Passenger Found In Airplane Bathroom
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,12
An airline passenger died in the restroom during a flight and wasnt found until the cleaning crew boarded the plane after it landed, a federal lawsuit contends.
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Today In History - April 12, 2007
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,12
Today is Thursday, April 12, the 102nd day of 2007. There are 263 days left in the year.
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Purse Snatcher Caught After Hiding In Port-A-Potty
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,12
Police looking for a purse snatcher were able to flush the suspect out from the portable toilet where he was hiding.
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Mt. Etna Erupts For 2nd Time In 2 Months
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,12
There's been a new eruption on Mt. Etna in Sicily. After a first eruption on Mar. 29 -- which lasted a couple hours, a new eruption began overnight Wednesday.
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Moose, Reindeer To Take Taste Tests
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,11
Moose and reindeer at a Stockholm wildlife park have been invited to an unusual taste panel that will help decide which type of salt should be used to de-ice the country's roads in wintertime.
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Teeny Ted's tale is world's smallest book
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,11
Canadian researchers say they have produced the world's smallest published book, a story of a turnip contest that will require readers to use an electron microscope.
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Utah Man To Try Again For Howard Hughes' Fortune
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,11
The Utah man who claimed to have rescued Howard Hughes in the desert 40 years ago, and then was supposed to inherit more than $150 million from the billionaires will, is reportedly going to press on with his case.
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Students Allegedly Took Holocaust Lesson Too Far
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,11
It was supposed to be a hard lesson about the horrors of the Holocaust. But a nearly three-week school experiment is coming under fire for being too harsh.
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Group Pays Nearly $3,400 To Free 300 Lobsters
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,11
Three hundred lobsters have a new lease on life thanks to an anonymous group that secured their release in Maine.
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Retired Couple Begins Cab Ride From NYC To Arizona
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,11
Yellow taxis fill every street in Manhattan, but don't be surprised if you see a New York City cab driving through Oklahoma this week.
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Killer Whale Knocks SeaWorld Trainer Off Wall
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,11
A killer whale at SeaWorld Adventure Park was getting a sonogram to prepare for possible artificial insemination when she knocked her trainer off a low wall Tuesday.
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Small Claims Court Win Nets Man $355 In Pennies
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,11
A penny saved is a penny earned, but one man believes 33,500 pennies won are best donated to a worthy cause. Bob Wilson, who won a small claims court case last month and was paid in pennies, will donate his award to a group that helped him with heating bills.
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Today In History - April 11, 2007
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,11
Today is Wednesday, April 11, the 101st day of 2007. There are 264 days left in the year.
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Woman Finally Eats After 2 Years Without Food
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,11
Amy Oestreicher, a 20-year-old Westport, Conn. woman who has spent the last two years being nourished intravenously when her stomach practically exploded due to a blood clot in 2005, took her first bite of food in two years.
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Fans seek Florida pardon for Doors' Morrison
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,10
Two fans have asked Florida to pardon rock bad boy Jim Morrison, the late lead singer of The Doors, who was convicted of exposing himself during a Miami concert nearly 40 years ago.
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German Army tries to draft 4-week-old baby
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,10
The German Army sent a draft notice to a four-week-old baby named Lucio, ordering him to report for duty within the next 10 days, before realising it had blundered.
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Dad Uses Bow & Arrow To Remove Girl's Loose Tooth
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,10
A South Carolina man came up with a unique way to pull out his six-year old daughters loose tooth and the entire tooth pulling incident was caught on camera.
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Robbery Suspect Arrested When His Leg Falls Off
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,10
A man with a prosthetic leg that fell off while he tried to flee from police was arrested Tuesday a short time after he allegedly burglarized a market in Pomona with an accomplice, who escaped, police said.
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Woman Wins $10,000 In Cell Phone Texting Contest
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,10
A 21-year-old Los Angeles woman has been crowned fastest thumbs in the west after a text message competition held by a mobile phone manufacturer. Eli Tirosh won $10,000 and the chance to compete for the grand prize in New York on April 21.
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Suit: Man's Suicide Due To Being Awake In Surgery
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,10
It's almost too awful to imagine: being awake but paralyzed during surgery. And although it's rare, studies say it could happen as many as 40,000 times a year. It's just such an experience that two West Virginia women say caused their father to commit suicide.
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Comedian's diet tea ad no laughing matter
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,10
A famous Chinese comedian has been sued by a diet tea drinker who says the drink the comedian claimed helped him lose weight did not work.
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Easter Miracle? Virgin Mary Spotted In Cherry Tree
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,10
Is it an Easter miracle or just natures artwork? Leo Korte of Albuquerque, N.M., was cutting down his cherry tree with the help of a friend this past Good Friday, when they noticed what looked like an image of the Virgin Mary in the tree rings.
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Sheriff Tickets Self For Unsafe Lane Change
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,10
A Wisconsin county sheriff didn't have to write himself a ticket but he said it was the right thing to do. Brown County Sheriff Dennis Kocken issued himself a ticket for an unsafe lane change, three weeks after he had rear-ended a suspected speeder after that driver slowed to turn.
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Mayor's Errant Pitch Leads To 'Screwball' Sandwich
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,10
The Cincinnati mayor's errant ceremonial first pitch on baseball's opening day has inspired a sandwich with a fitting name: The Mark Mallory Screwball.
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Big fish snared in barra battle
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,10
A barramundi fish weighing nearly 20 kilograms has made one Western Australian fisherman $10,000 richer.
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Raccoon Lives After Jump Off Overpass
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,10
A raccoon hanging over a freeway overpass gave people at an antique flea market a big scare in Sacramento on Easter Sunday.
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Researcher Records His Life On Computer
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,10
Computer researcher Gordon Bell is saving his whole life on computer. He wears a little camera around his neck that takes a picture every 30 seconds or so, and a sound recorder rolls non-stop, John Blackstone reports.
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Four-time Tokyo poll loser plans to run 16 more times
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,09
An eccentric 78-year-old inventor who was thwarted in his fourth attempt to become governor of Tokyo is undaunted, saying he plans to run 16 more times and will win by outliving his opponents.
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Tourist Docks At International Space Station
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,09
A Russian-built Soyuz capsule carrying the American billionaire who helped develop Microsoft Word docked at the international space station late Monday -- to the earthbound applause of Martha Stewart and others at Mission Control.
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Teen In Taxi Stops Runaway Horse-Drawn Carriage
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,09
A runaway horse pulled a carriage with two out-of-town tourists on a wild ride through downtown streets, until a teenager rode to the rescue in a pursuing taxi, leaped out and grabbed the horse's reins.
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Woman Seeks Fresh Start With Big Sale On eBay
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,09
A process server in Minnesota has decided to make a new start by auctioning off almost everything she owns on eBay.
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Today In History - April 9, 2007
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,09
Today is Monday, April 9, the 99th day of 2007. There are 266 days left in the year.
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Mouse Delays Vietnamese Flight 4 Hours
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,09
A fugitive mouse delayed the departure of a Japan-bound airliner for more than four hours Sunday as technicians hunted down the potential threat, airline officials said.
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Bald Eagle Hatches On Santa Catalina Island
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,08
A bald eagle egg has hatched in the wild on Santa Catalina Island, only the third since chemical contamination there wiped out the iconic birds several decades ago, conservation officials said Sunday.
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Coke finds Jesus movie scene hard to swallow
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,08
An Italian film showing Jesus Christ drinking Coca-Cola has sparked such strong protest from the soft drink giant that it blocked the film's Easter weekend premiere.
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Brides say 'I do' to green weddings
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,08
Here comes the bride, all dressed in green.
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Berlin's Polar Bear Cub Knut Creates Sales Frenzy
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,08
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Retired NYC Couple Take Cab 2,400 Miles To Arizona
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,08
Betty and Bob Matas have retired and are moving to Arizona, but like many New Yorkers they don't drive, and they don't want their cats to travel all that way in an airliner cargo hold. Their solution" "Hey, cabbie."
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102-year-old California Woman Hits Hole-In-1
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,08
Elsie McLean thought she might have lost her ball on the par-3, 100-yard fourth hole at Bidwell Park. Instead, the 102-year-old Chico woman became the oldest golfer ever to make a hole-in-one on a regulation course.
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REO Speedwagon Plays Wal-Mart
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,08
REO Speedwagon became a rock icon with No.1 hits "Cant Fight This Feeling" and "Keep On Loving You." They played giant stadiums in the 70s and 80s, but Friday they performed at a much different venue to promote its first new album in a decade.
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Today In History - April 8, 2007
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,08
Today is Easter Sunday, April 8, the 98th day of 2007. There are 267 days left in the year.
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US flight canceled after pilot's foul language
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,08
An American airliner canceled a flight set to leave from Las Vegas to Detroit after the captain swore on a mobile phone in a bathroom, then at one of the passengers on the plane.
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'Fish Man' completes Amazon River swim
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,07
A Slovenian man has become the first person to swim the entire length of South America's Amazon River.
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Man Swims 3,272-Mile Amazon In Record Attempt
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,07
After 3,272 miles of exhaustion, sunburn, delirium and piranhas, a 52-year-old Slovenian successfully completed a swim down the Amazon river Saturday that could set a new world record for distance -- one he's broken three times already.
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Baby Tests Positive For Multiple Drugs In Texas
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,07
An 8-month-old baby boy is hospitalized after testing positive for drugs; child protective services and Richland Hills police are investigating.
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Pilot's Obscenity-Laced Outburst Cancels Flight
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,07
A Northwest Airlines flight was canceled because the pilot was yelling obscenities during a cell phone conversation while people were boarding, and cursed one passenger, a federal official said Saturday.
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Today In History - April 7, 2007
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,07
Today is Saturday, April 7, the 97th day of 2007. There are 268 days left in the year.
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Grandma Bank Robber Speaks Out
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,06
A 76-year-old grandmother from Pittsburgh admitted she robbed a bank and says she can't survive prison. But should the judge send her there anyway?
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