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26 animals seized from Calif. motel room
Mar 21 2007 10:17PM (CT)
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) - Santa Cruz County authorities have confiscated more than two dozen animals from a couple who were hoarding them in their motel room they shared with two children. Staff of the downtown Santa Cruz motel went to the man and woman's room on Tuesday because they had not heard from the couple in more than a month. Inside they found 20 domestic birds, a cat and a rabbit. There was one dead bird in a cage and three others stuffed in the freezer.
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Dad says 2-year-old son shot him in arm
Mar 21 2007 5:17PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minneapolis police are trying to find out how a 2-year-old boy allegedly ended up with a gun and shot his father. The 24-year-old man walked into Abbott Northwestern Hospital last Saturday with a gunshot wound to his arm. The man told police that his 2-year-old son had taken the gun from his mother's purse and fired it at him.
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Man gets probation for dead deer sex
Mar 21 2007 5:15PM (CT)
SUPERIOR, Wis. (AP) - A 20-year-old man received probation after he was convicted of having sexual contact with a dead deer. The sentence also requires Bryan James Hathaway to be evaluated as a sex offender and treated at the Institute for Psychological and Sexual Health in Duluth, Minn.
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Teacher chided for bite during wedgie
Mar 21 2007 5:14PM (CT)
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - A former Woodburn coach has gotten a state reprimand for biting the thigh of one of half a dozen wrestlers who tried to give him a wedgie. At a December 2005 practice, the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission said, team members tried to give Peter Porath a wedgie _ jerking his undershorts upward.
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Man in WWII uniform attacks 2 at museum
Mar 21 2007 5:02PM (CT)
McMINNVILLE, Ore. (AP) - A man dressed in a World War II military uniform attacked two employees at the Evergreen Aviation Museum this week, police said. McMinnville Police Capt. Dennis Marks said Gerald Lahey, a transient, broke into the rear of the building and smashed the glass panel of a display case. He then removed the coat, hat and pants from a World War II uniform and put them on.
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Reading, writing, booties at Utah school
Mar 21 2007 4:52PM (CT)
NIBLEY, Utah (AP) - A chart in the faculty lounge keeps track of new babies at a northern Utah school. Someone added paper just to keep up. When teacher Trisha Hunt gives birth in June, it will be the 11th baby since January for staff at Thomas Edison Charter School South in Cache County.
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Jeep runs over Va. man while he's in bed
Mar 21 2007 3:50PM (CT)
ROANOKE, Va. (AP) - The underside of a car is a familiar sight to auto mechanic Dean Blevins. Seeing one on top of him at 2:30 in the morning, while he was in bed _ that was new. A Jeep crashed through a wall of Blevins' apartment early Tuesday and pinned him in his bed. It took firefighters an hour to free him, but he suffered only minor bruises and scrapes.
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McDonald's seeks to redefine 'McJobs'
Mar 21 2007 3:11PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - McDonald's Corp. is reviving its campaign to ditch the dictionary definition of "McJob," this time setting its sites on the vocabulary of Britons. The world's largest fast food company said Tuesday it plans to launch a campaign in the U.K. this spring to get the country's dictionary houses to change current references to the word "McJob."
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Don King in front row for pope
Mar 21 2007 10:28AM (CT)
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Don King got a front row seat at Pope Benedict XVI's general audience Wednesday. The usually flamboyant boxing promoter, wearing a blue suit with his preferred high hair style primly flattened for the papal event, gave the pope a green-and-gold boxing belt and a handwritten letter asking for prayers for people ranging from President Bush to the world's sick and aged.
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13-year-old wins rotten sneaker contest
Mar 21 2007 7:06AM (CT)
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Thirteen-year-old Katharine Tuck's sneakers are equal opportunity offenders. They smell as bad as they look. Now, the Utah seventh grader is $2,500 richer because of it: On Tuesday, she out-ranked six other children to win the 32nd annual National Odor-Eaters Rotten Sneaker Contest, stinking up the joint with a pair of well-worn 1 1/2-year-old Nikes so noxious they had the judges wincing.
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13-year-old wins rotten sneaker contest
Mar 21 2007 7:06AM (CT)
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Thirteen-year-old Katharine Tuck's sneakers are equal opportunity offenders. They smell as bad as they look. Now, the Utah seventh grader is $2,500 richer because of it: On Tuesday, she out-ranked six other children to win the 32nd annual National Odor-Eaters Rotten Sneaker Contest, stinking up the joint with a pair of well-worn 1 1/2-year-old Nikes so noxious they had the judges wincing.
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13-year-old wins rotten sneaker contest
Mar 21 2007 7:06AM (CT)
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Thirteen-year-old Katharine Tuck's sneakers are equal opportunity offenders. They smell as bad as they look. Now, the Utah seventh grader is $2,500 richer because of it: On Tuesday, she out-ranked six other children to win the 32nd annual National Odor-Eaters Rotten Sneaker Contest, stinking up the joint with a pair of well-worn 1 1/2-year-old Nikes so noxious they had the judges wincing.
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13-year-old wins rotten sneaker contest
Mar 21 2007 7:06AM (CT)
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Thirteen-year-old Katharine Tuck's sneakers are equal opportunity offenders. They smell as bad as they look. Now, the Utah seventh grader is $2,500 richer because of it: On Tuesday, she out-ranked six other children to win the 32nd annual National Odor-Eaters Rotten Sneaker Contest, stinking up the joint with a pair of well-worn 1 1/2-year-old Nikes so noxious they had the judges wincing.
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