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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
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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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Company Sells Greeting Cards for Inmates |
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Friday, 28 March 2008 |
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Finding it hard to express just the right sentiment to your loved one in prison? A Los Angeles company may have the answer. Attorney Terrye L. Cheathem noticed a market Hallmark wasn't serving and founded Three Squares Greetings, which provides cards for inmates.
"With more than 2.5 million people incarcerated in the Unites States today, I saw that there was a tremendous need," she said.
Some express simple good wishes: "We are all praying for you while you do your time."
But most show a tougher sort of love.
A Christmas greeting partly reads: "You had the choice to be 'naughty or nice.' And you chose ... Oh well, now you have to do your time."
Cheathem said she came up with the cards when her brother-in-law served 11 months in prison. She said she went searching for the appropriate greeting card, but couldn't find what she was looking for.
"There weren't any cards on the shelf that said anything like, 'Hey, you must make better choices,'" she said.
Cheathem designs and writes the cards and sells them online and at a handful of stores across the nation.
"This is one product no one wants to receive and no one wants to buy, but if you need it, it's there," she said. Information from: Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, http://www.dailybulletin.com |
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