Pig Gone Wild In Texas Neighborhood
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jul,14
A wild pig led police and people from the Humane Society in Fort Worth a wild chase Thursday.
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Inflatable Spacecraft Beams Back Images
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jul,14
An unmanned, inflatable spacecraft launched by a Las Vegas real estate mogul has beamed back the first images since it slipped into orbit and expanded itself.
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Photo In Calif. Could Be World's Largest
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jul,14
What is believed to be the world's largest photo was successfully created in a hangar that had been converted into a massive camera at the former El Toro Marine Corps base.
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2-Year-Old Minn. Boy Water-Skis
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jul,14
Perhaps you've heard of Twiggy, the water-skiing squirrel. Twiggy's got nothing on Tyler Hogan, a 2-year-old from Medicine Lake, Minn. who water-skis.
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Calif. Teen Driver's Bail Remains At $3M
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jul,14
A judge has refused to lower the $3 million bond set for a teenager charged with killing two members of Tonga's royal family in a car crash.
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Irked Mechanic Finds Bus Makes Good Battering Ram
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jul,14
A Metropolitan Transit Authority radio mechanic didn't take it too well when his supervisors at a bus yard near downtown Los Angeles told him he was being suspended.
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Tony Blair's pen among world leaders' items in charity auction
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jul,14
Fancy writing with the same pen British Prime Minister Tony Blair has used to sign official documents?
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It's a maze Jim, but not as we know it
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jul,14
A British fan of the cult TV show Star Trek has boldly gone where no man has gone before and created a giant maize maze dedicated to the program.
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Woman Charged For Calling 911 To See 'Cute' Deputy
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jul,14
911 should never be used as a dating service. Just ask an Oregon woman who authorities say learned the hard way.
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Mandela Sells Himself On Internet
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jul,14
Nelson Mandela is offering to have tea with the highest bidder in an internet auction to raise cash for a children's heart clinic.The former South African president will be making the offer on eBay.
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Dog owner takes to the sea to avoid fine
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jul,14
A Western Australian dog owner is facing a hefty fine after going to extreme lengths to avoid putting her pet on a leash on Broome's Cable Beach.
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Today In History - July 14, 2006
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jul,14
Today is Friday, July 14th, the 195th day of 2006. There are 170 days left in the year.
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British Police Defend 'Underpants' Advice
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jul,14
A British police force on Thursday defended a magazine article advising women intent on getting drunk to make sure they are wearing nice underpants.
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Woman's 10-Cent Bet Pays $21,584 At Track
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jul,14
A woman placed a 10-cent bet at a Michigan horse track and won $21,584, a track official says. The Michigan woman, whose name was not released, made the bet Friday at Sports Creek Raceway in Swartz Creek, about 55 miles northwest of Detroit.
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Famous Ore. Rooster Slain By Dog
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jul,14
Big Red, the rooster whose daily tours of Main Street brought national attention to this mid-Willamette Valley town, died this week after getting mauled by a dog.
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'Head-Butting' Becomes The Newest Internet Craze
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jul,14
The World Cup final has provided the World Wide Web with its newest craze: Head-butting.
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Woman Calls 911 To Meet Cute Cop
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jul,13
Two deputies came to Lorna Dudashs home in Alaho, Oregon to inquire about a noise complaint. After they left she called 911.
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Pete Coors To Appear In Court On DUI Charge
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jul,13
Pete Coors, vice chairman one of the world's largest beer brewing companies, was arrested in May in Colorado on a drunken driving charge, according to the Rocky Mountain News.
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Police urge women drinkers to 'wear nice pants'
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jul,13
Women going on boozy nights out have been warned by police to "wear nice pants" in case they fall down drunk in the street.
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Careless Berlin burglars take taxi home
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jul,13
Two Albanian men carrying stolen computers and flat-screen televisions worth $13,000 flagged down a Berlin taxi to transport their loot home, only to be arrested later after the cab driver called the police.
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Finches Named For Darwin Are Evolving
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jul,13
Finches on the Galapagos Islands that inspired Charles Darwin to develop the concept of evolution are now helping confirm it by evolving.
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Conspiracy Theorists Don't Believe Ken Lay Is Dead
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jul,13
Mark Twain once said reports of his death were premature. In the case of Enron Corp. founder Kenneth Lay, reports of his death were national news and there are still people who don't believe it.
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Dog 'Ran Woman Over In Pickup Truck'
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jul,13
A police dog has been accused of running a woman over in a pickup truck.The animal was apparently left in the vehicle's cab while its handler went to check out a report of a domestic disturbance.
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Dog Blamed For Hitting Woman With Truck
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jul,13
A police dog that was left in a pickup with the engine running apparently knocked the vehicle into gear and ran down a woman who was walking to her mailbox.
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Tarzan Family Go Ape Over Loincloth
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jul,13
Tarzan's legendary loincloth is at the centre of a tug-of-war between a museum and his dying son.Actor Johnny Weissmuller used the piece of cloth while swinging through the jungle in the ape-man action films of the 1930s and 40s.
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Free Gas At Wisc. Station Causes Frenzy
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jul,13
Two car crashes occurred and four people were arrested in excitement over a gasoline giveaway Wednesday to reward Milwaukee for its safe-driving record.
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Cops Tell Women: Wear Nice Pants
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jul,13
Police have warned women setting off for a night on the town to wear "nice pants".It's in case they fall down drunk in the street and "show off more than you intended".
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Today In History - July 13, 2006
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jul,13
Today is Thursday, July 13th, the 194th day of 2006. There are 171 days left in the year.
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Man, 83, Is Oldest Pro Baseball Player
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jul,13
No one in the bleachers at the Sioux Falls Canaries game was quite sure what was going on down on the field. They were all quiet, wondering and transfixed on the little old man digging into the batters' box.
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Pa. Man, 80, Admits Dealing Crack For Sex
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jul,13
An 80-year-old man acknowledged Wednesday that he dealt drugs at his house in return for sex with prostitutes. Felix Cocco of Pittsburgh pleaded guilty to charges of possession of a controlled substance, possession with intent to deliver and possession of drug paraphernalia.
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Mom Has Quadruplets 3 Years After Triplets
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jul,13
With fertility drugs, Angela Magdaleno had triplets three years ago. Last week, she had quadruplets _ without fertility drugs.
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Climate Change May Devastate Wine Industry
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jul,13
Climate warming could spell disaster for much of the multibillion-dollar U.S. wine industry. Areas suitable for growing premium wine grapes could be reduced by 50 percent and possibly as much as 81 percent by the end of this century, according to a study Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Two Cougar Cubs Found In The Wild
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jul,13
Washington State wildlife officials found two cougar cubs in the wild.
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Town all shook up over licence to Elvis
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jul,12
A town in central west New South Wales is applying overseas for a licence to impersonate Elvis Presley.
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Drug Bust Shows 'C' Is For More Than 'Cookie'
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jul,12
Austin Police say they found close to ten grams of cocaine in a man's possession - and 17 crack cocaine "cookies" in his car. The drug had been shaped into round discs for sale to users.
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Racehorse Barbaro Takes Turn For Worst
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jul,12
Barbaro's condition turned "potentially serious" again Wednesday, a day after the Kentucky Derby winner's veterinarian gave a more upbeat report, saying the colt was stable and resting comfortably.
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You Swine! Kids' Piggy Bank Raiders
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jul,12
One in four Australian parents regularly takes money from their children's piggy banks, a survey has revealed.Mothers are more than twice as likely to raid their children's savings than fathers, with 35% confessing to the crime compared with 16% of fathers.
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Police Plea: Hand Over The Coppers
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jul,12
Police are appealing to pedestrians to hand back the thousands of pounds they pocketed when a mystery man threw a bundle of cash into a busy town centre.People fell to their hands and knees to scoop up the £20 notes when the man released the cash with the worlds: "Who wants free money?"
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ZZ Pop: French Sing Star's Praises
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jul,12
Zinedine Zidane's World Cup headbutt looks set to become the subject of a surprise hit summer song.A small French advertising firm penned the tune Coupe de Boule - headbutt in French - after France were beaten in the final by Italy.
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Grizzly Bear Comes Home After Weeks Of Food, Sex
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jul,12
Boo the runaway grizzly bear has returned on his own to his enclosure at a resort, apparently because of the ease of getting food and the end to the mating season, officials said.
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Prison Inmates: Don't Ban Our Nudie Mags
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jul,12
Two inmates have filed a lawsuit against the Indiana Department of Correction to overturn a policy that bars magazines such as Playboy and Hustler.
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Bigamy Costs Malaysian A Buffalo And A Pig
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jul,12
An indigenous man in Malaysia's Sabah state on Borneo Island was fined a buffalo and a pig for breaking a tribal custom by secretly marrying a second wife, a tribal court official said Wednesday.
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Inmate, Wife Smuggle Bibles Backed With Blow
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jul,12
An Indiana jail inmate pleaded guilty to charges that he asked his wife to smuggle cocaine to him inside two Bibles. Police intercepted one Bible and opened the ends of the spine, which had been glued shut, to find a plastic bag containing about 2 grams of cocaine.
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Pregnant Woman Saves Neighbor From Fire
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jul,12
Jessica Bates expects to give birth to twin girls any day now in Albion, Mich., but that didn't stop her from rushing to the aid of a neighbor in whose apartment was fast engulfed in flames.
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Japanese vows of love get space in the heavens
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jul,12
Japanese spouses can have their vows of love launched into outer space and stored there from next year, as long as they buy platinum wedding rings.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jul,12
Britons spend an average of four days every year waiting in queues, according to a survey.And nearly half of all Brits admit to getting into arguments while stuck in line.
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Australians trail in happiness rankings
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jul,12
A study has found Australians are far from the happiest people in the world, with the country ranked 139th on a worldwide index.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Jul,11
An opening sentence containing a burrito, an angel and a shovel has been judged appalling enough to win the annual Bulwer-Lytton literary parody prize.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Jul,11
People who took an illegal drug made from mushrooms reported profound mystical experiences that led to behavior changes lasting for weeks all part of an experiment that recalls the psychedelic '60s.
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