Fugitive Alligator Caught
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday May,25
A 6 1/2-foot alligator believed to be the fugitive Reggie" who lurked in a park lake for two years has finally been captured.
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A Prosthetic Leg Prompts A Lockdown
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday May,24
Police in Washington state locked down a hospital after a report of a man with a gun. Turns out, the "weapon" was just a prosthetic leg.
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Free computer virus finds willing victims
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday May,24
Hundreds of people have clicked on an online advertisement to download a free computer virus that said, "Is your PC virus-free?
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McDonald's insulted by dictionary definition of 'McJob'
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday May,24
The fast food chain McDonald's has launched a petition to change the dictionary definition of the word McJob.
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Whale Resue Efforts Called Off For Thursday
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday May,24
Marine biologists temporarily halted efforts to coax two lost, injured whales back to the Pacific on Thursday morning, after recordings of clanging pipes, feeding humpbacks and killer orcas failed to induce the pair to head back to saltwater.
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Woman Saved By Wallet In Bank Robbery
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday May,24
Masked gunmen killed a teller and injured two other people. But one woman was saved by a wallet.
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U.S. War Records Available Online
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday May,24
For every generation in this country there has been a war. And with wars come millions of records that can shed light on family history, detailing everything from the color of soldiers' eyes to what their neighbors may have said about them.
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VP Cheney's Daughter Has Baby Boy
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday May,24
Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter, Mary Cheney, delivered an 8-pound, 6-ounce baby boy on Wednesday, the first child for her and her female partner of 15 years, Heather Poe.
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Police: Suspect Tried Pacemaker Scam To Skip Jail
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday May,24
A woman facing theft charges tried to get out of jail using a phony hospital letter claiming she needed a lifesaving pacemaker, authorities said.
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Big Flag Pits Hummer Dealer Against Las Vegas
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday May,24
A flap over an outsized American flag and its flagpole has city officials and an auto dealership dueling over patriotism, advertising and neighborhood peace.
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Scientists Try Scare Tactic To Rescue Whales
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday May,24
Scientists hope recordings of orcas attacking a mother whale and her calf will persuade a pair of ailing humpbacks meandering in a freshwater river to head back toward the ocean.
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McDonalds insulted by dictionary definition of 'McJob'
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday May,24
The fast food chain McDonalds has launched a petition to change the dictionary definition of the word McJob.
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Darwin man wears same trousers for 2.5 years
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday May,24
The fashion police have been called in on a Darwin accountant who admits he has worn the same pair of trousers every work day for more than two years.
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Today In History - May 24, 2007
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday May,24
Today is Thursday, May 24, the 144th day of 2007. There are 221 days left in the year.
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Man Reunited With Wallet After 37 Years
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday May,24
A man who lost his wallet in 1970 got it back after 37 years with everything still inside. Workers renovating the Musical Arts Building on Indiana University's campus found the wallet sandwiched between two cinder block walls three weeks ago.
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Ancestry.com Puts 90M War Records Online
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday May,24
On Thursday, Ancestry.com unveils more than 90 million U.S. war records from the first English settlement at Jamestown in 1607 through the Vietnam War's end in 1975. The site also has the names of 3.5 million U.S. soldiers killed in action, including 2,000 who died in Iraq.
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Lost Katrina Dogs Returned To Owner
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday May,24
A custody dispute over two dogs lost in Hurricane Katrina ended Tuesday when the Florida women who adopted them after the storm agreed to give them back.
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Washington Girl Wins Geography Bee
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday May,24
What city, divided by a river of the same name, was the imperial capital of Vietnam? The answer to this question Hue won 14-year-old Caitlin Snaring from Redmond, Wash., a $25,000 college scholarship Wednesday at the 19th annual National Geographic Bee. Caitlin is only the second girl to win in the bee's history.
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Parents React After 3rd Graders Strip Searched
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday May,24
One Detroit school has been put under investigation after students were forced to undergo a strip search.
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Coyotes On The Loose In West Roxbury
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday May,24
A family of coyotes was running loose through a Boston neighborhood Wednesday morning.
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French-speaking policeman busts dopey tourists
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday May,24
Two tourists got a big surprise when they spoke in French so a police officer would not know they had marijuana after they had been stopped on the outskirts of Broken Hill in far western New South Wales.
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Shark Gives Birth Without A Father
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday May,23
Female sharks can fertilize their own eggs and give birth without sperm from males, according to a new study of the asexual reproduction of a hammerhead in a U.S. zoo.
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Making A Raucous Noise Unto The Whales
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday May,23
Scientists worried about the health of two wounded, lost whales circling near a Sacramento River bridge planned to begin banging metal pipes again Wednesday to herd them toward the open waters of the Pacific Ocean.
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Mozart to put sharks in the mood
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday May,23
Scientists desperate for reluctant sharks to mate plan to pipe the romantic music of Mozart, Beethoven and Puccini into their north-west England aquarium tank.
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German police to sniff out G8 protestors
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday May,23
German police are compiling a database of human scents to track down possible violent protesters at the Group of Eight (G8) summit in June.
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Woman Gives Birth In Car For Second Time
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday May,23
If a pregnant Stephanie Green asks for a ride to the hospital, beware: she has a history of giving birth in cars. For the second time in 17 months, Green had a baby Tuesday while en route to a hospital. Doctors planned to induce labor Thursday, but baby Zaria had other plans.
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Orangutan Flees Cage, Goes On Rampage
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday May,23
A hulking orangutan escaped from his cage and terrified restaurant patrons Wednesday, at the same Taiwan zoo where a crocodile recently chomped off a veterinarian's arm. The latest incident at the Shaoshan Zoo in the southern city of Kaohsiung began when the orangutan pushed his way out of his cage and wandered into a nearby restaurant courtyard.
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'Jericho' Fans To CBS: 'Nuts!'
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday May,23
You might say fans of the recently canceled CBS drama "Jericho" have gone nuts.
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New Hampshire Fires 4 Town Employees For Gossiping
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday May,23
Can you be fired for gossiping about your boss? Four town employees in Hooksett, N.H., say they were, raising questions about fairness, free speech and a staple of life in the American workplace.
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Fake Vet Collared In Kitten Sting Gets Probation
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday May,23
A fake veterinarian collared in an undercover sting involving a kitten named Fred was sentenced to probation and mandatory psychiatric treatment.
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Man's Ashes May Have Been Mistaken For Drugs
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday May,23
A man's vehicle was vandalized and his father's ashes were dumped in his front lawn, authorities said. The victim said he believed a robber broke into his 1987 Ford Bronco and thought a cedar box with a plastic bag full of his father's ashes contained drugs. Nothing in the car was stolen, he said.
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Tagger: Graffiti So Common It Must Be OK
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday May,23
There's so much graffiti on a Milwaukee bridge it must be legal. That's the argument a man busted for tagging a city bridge made to the 1st District Court of Appeals. The court didn't buy it and upheld his sentence Tuesday.
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Arkansas Man Asleep In Drive-Through Cited For DWI
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday May,23
A man who was a little slow in picking up his fast food has been charged with drunk driving. Police said they found Terrance Forte, 32, asleep at the wheel in the drive-through lane at a McDonald's restaurant. Forte's blood alcohol level registered at 0.19, more than twice the legal limit.
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Anarchist fails to seize power with banana flag
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday May,23
Belgian anarchist artist Jan Bucquoy has failed to seize power in Belgium in his latest of three attempts to carry out a coup d'etat, the Belga news agency reports.
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Today In History - May 23, 2007
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday May,23
Today is Wednesday, May 23, the 143rd day of 2007. There are 222 days left in the year.
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Woman, 60, Gives Birth To Twins
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday May,23
A 60-year-old woman became a mother, twice over, when she delivered a pair of boys Tuesday.
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Tenn. Trooper Suspended Over Porn Star Claims
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday May,22
A porn star claims a state trooper who stopped her on a highway let drug charges slide in exchange for oral sex. And she says she's got proof the trooper's own video images of the roadside tryst.
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Britain obsessed with fame, addicted to junk food: Lonely Planet
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday May,22
A new Lonely Planet guidebook says Britons are obsessed with celebrity and addicted to junk food and ready meals.
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Pakistani husband actually a woman
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday May,22
A court in the Pakistan city of Lahore has remanded a couple in custody after ruling that the husband was actually a woman.
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NYC's Yellow Cabs Going Green
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday May,22
Yellow cabs are going green. On Tuesday, New York City Mayor Bloomberg announced a plan to improve the environment by improving the gas mileage for the city's taxi fleet.
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Mobile phone reaches Everest's summit
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday May,22
A British man has set a world record by making the first mobile telephone call from the summit of Mount Everest, taking the blessing - or curse - of the cell phone to new heights.
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Rovers Find More Evidence Of Water On Mars
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday May,22
The Mars rover Spirit has uncovered the strongest evidence yet that the planet used to be wetter than previously thought, scientists reported Monday.
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Man Crashes Truck After Prosthetic Leg Jams
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday May,22
A man ran his truck through the wall of a liquor store after his prosthetic leg became jammed between the accelerator and brake pedal.
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Teens Rob Hotel, Return For A Swim
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday May,21
Two teens are in hot water after police said they decided to return to a pool at the same hotel where they had robbed three people about 15 hours before.
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Cat Caught Napping In Astroturf
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday May,21
A rude awakening for a cat-napping feline at New York's Shea Stadium Sunday night.
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'Sweating' Hindu statue 'bad omen' for Nepal king
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday May,21
Officials say hundreds of devotees are flocking to see a "sweating" statue of a Hindu deity in Nepal, describing the phenomenon as a bad omen for the Himalayan nation's already embattled king.
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Viagra hamsters in jet lag breakthrough
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday May,21
Argentinian researchers say the male impotence drug Viagra may be useful for treating jet lag.
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Woman Bitten After Nursing Squirrel
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday May,21
A 47-year-old woman who wanted to help a sickly squirrel ended up being scratched and bitten by the animal, according to a police report.
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King Tut Exhibit Draws Protests
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday May,21
A traveling exhibition on King Tutankhamun drew about 50 protesters in Philadelphia who denounced the popular display as racist.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday May,21
An Indonesian fisherman hooked a rare coelacanth, a prehistoric fish species once thought as extinct as dinosaurs, and briefly kept the "living fossil" alive in a quarantined pool.
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