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Couple claim mysterious noise plagues their house
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AP - Bob and Leona Ehrfurth say the noise that's been plaguing them for two years sounds something like a rumbling motor, with a subtle vibration that won't quit. Then it stops — especially when they try to show city officials or acoustic experts what they're hearing.
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Pet rabbit credited with saving couple from fire
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AP - A pet rabbit is credited with saving a couple from a fire that swept through their home in the southern city of Melbourne.
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Fish pedicures: Carp rid human feet of scaly skin
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 AP - Ready for the latest in spa pampering? Prepare to dunk your tootsies in a tank of water and let tiny carp nibble away.
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117 cats, raccoon, and rabbit found at Omaha home
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AP - Humane society workers have found 117 cats, a raccoon and a rabbit in a north Omaha house. The discovery came Wednesday after Council Bluffs, Iowa, police caught the 54-year-old woman who lives at the house reportedly stealing cat food. Officials say she smelled like cat urine.
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R.I. police say man had 0.491 blood alcohol level
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AP - State police say they arrested a man early Tuesday whose blood alcohol level was 0.491 percent — the highest ever recorded in Rhode Island for someone who wasn't dead.
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Underwear chicken dare puts man in hospital
(Reuters)
Reuters - An Australian man's dare went horribly
wrong when he tried to play chicken with cars on a freeway
wearing only his underwear. The 18 year old was critically
injured after being hit by a four-wheel drive on a freeway in
the southern city of Melbourne in the early hours of Wednesday,
police said in a statement.
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In Portland, Ore., parking laws include police
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AP - Portland police are not above the parking laws, even if they're hungry.
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British teenager finds baby bat in her bra |
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Monday, 14 July 2008 |
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Abbie Hawkins, a Norwich, United Kingdom hotel receptionist, 19, has found a baby bat in her bra. Hawkins originally mistook the bat for her cellphone. |
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Hitler's head ripped off at wax museum opening |
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Tuesday, 08 July 2008 |
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A man ripped off the head of a wax model of Adolf Hitler during the opening ceremony of a museum in Berlin, Germany. |
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Hot dog eating champion retains title after tiebreaker |
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Tuesday, 08 July 2008 |
 For the second year in a row, American competitive eater Joey Chestnut defeated his Japanese rival Takeru Kobayashi at the annual Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest in New York City, after a tie forced a five hot dog eat-off to be held. |
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Truck carrying 12 million bees overturns in New Brunswick |
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Tuesday, 08 July 2008 |
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A truck on the Trans-Canada Highway in New Brunswick, Canada, carrying 12 million bees has overturned. The truck was carrying 330 crates of bees when it tipped on a ramp in Saint-Léonard. The bees were used to help pollinate blueberries, and were heading back to Ontario. |
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Man auctions life, but disappointed at bid price |
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Tuesday, 01 July 2008 |
 After auctioning off his entire life on eBay for A$399,300, Ian Usher says he is "a little bit disappointed" at the final selling price. |
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'Pregnancy pact' grabs international attention for small Massachusetts town |
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Monday, 23 June 2008 |
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A supposed "pregnancy pact" at Gloucester High School in Gloucester, Massachusetts has drawn international attention to the small Massachusetts fishing city which is considered to be one of the oldest settlements (1623) in the American continent. |
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Nepal officials strike after minister locks official in toilet |
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Friday, 20 June 2008 |
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Workers in a Nepalese local government office have gone on strike in protest against actions made by Matrika Yadav, the minister for Forest and Soil Conservation. |
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Hundreds of cyclists take part in 2008 London Naked Bike Ride |
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Sunday, 15 June 2008 |
 People in London yesterday were surprised to see hundreds of cyclists in varying degrees of nakedness riding through the city as the annual London Naked Bike Ride took place, one of many other rides as part of World Naked Bike Ride. The ride was intended to protest against oil dependency and celebrate cycling and the human body. |
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Monkey uses garden hose to flee Indiana zoo |
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Saturday, 14 June 2008 |
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A spider monkey used a garden hose to scale the wall of a moat at a Michigan City zoo before being captured at a nearby boat dealership. |
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Million-dollar trial aborted on account of sudoku |
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Friday, 13 June 2008 |
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A drug trial in Sydney, Australia was aborted yesterday after several jurors were found to be playing sudoku puzzles during proceedings. |
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Romanian fighter jet hit by UFOs |
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Friday, 13 June 2008 |
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Officials from the Romanian Defense Military confirmed that one of their MiG-21 Lancer fighter planes was struck by four Unidentified Flying Objects on October 31, 2007, which shattered the plane's cockpit. The military also released a video captured by the plane's on-board camera as it was flying above Transylvania. |
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Woman robs pawn shop by swallowing stolen goods |
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Tuesday, 10 June 2008 |
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On May 27, 2008, in Salt Lake City, Utah, a woman stole two 14-karat gold bracelets from a pawn shop by swallowing them, as shown by a surveillance tape. The bracelets were worth US $2000 each according to the pawn shop. |
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Woman arrested after caught living in man's closet |
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Wednesday, 04 June 2008 |
In the town of Kasuya, Fukuoka, Japan, a 58-year-old woman was arrested after surveillance tape from inside an unnamed man's home showed her living in his closet.
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Police: Woman arrested for non-emergency 911 calls |
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Wednesday, 04 June 2008 |
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BENTON, Ill. (AP) — Police in Benton say Tabitha Artis was persistent in dialing up the county's 911 system, and they're calling it a crime. The 27-year-old woman was arrested for disorderly conduct for allegedly making several 911 calls police didn't consider emergencies. |
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Urine attacker remanded in custody |
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Friday, 23 May 2008 |
Sahnoun Daifallah, of White City, Gloucester, was today remanded in custody by Cheltenham magistrates after being arrested for spraying a "foul-smelling, brown substance" from a sports bottle. The liquid is thought to have contaminated food, books, wine bottles, and other items across several stores in Gloucestershire.
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Medical Mystery: The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep |
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Sunday, 11 May 2008 |
 Rhett Lamb, 3, is often irritable, but it's not just the routine growing pains of a toddler's life that has affected him. It's the fact that Rhett can't sleep.
"We went to the doctor after he was born, and I kept telling him something was wrong. He didn't sleep. They thought I was being kind of an anxious mom, and we went back and forth," Rhett's mother, Shannon Lamb, said. "Finally, they [were] starting to realize now that he really doesn't sleep at all. But we've had a lot of different diagnoses and nobody really knows." |
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Norfolk teens banned from buying eggs and ketchup |
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Saturday, 26 April 2008 |
Youths in the Norfolk town of Caister-on-Sea, near Great Yarmouth, England, have been banned from purchasing "squirty bottles" of ketchup, and eggs after a number of complaints from residents in the area. The move, which is backed by the Norfolk Police, is aimed at reducing the number of anti-social incidents occurring in the area. Sergeant Andy Brown, of the Norfolk Police, has said that no further complaints have been received since the ban came into force.
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