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Donkey becomes witness in Dallas dispute
Apr 18 2007 10:39PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - The first witness in a lawsuit Wednesday between two neighbors was a real ass. Buddy the donkey walked to the bench and stared at the jury, the picture of a gentle, well-mannered creature and not the loud, aggressive animal he had been accused of being.
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Donkey becomes witness in Dallas dispute
Apr 18 2007 10:39PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - The first witness in a lawsuit Wednesday between two neighbors was a real ass. Buddy the donkey walked to the bench and stared at the jury, the picture of a gentle, well-mannered creature and not the loud, aggressive animal he had been accused of being.
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Woman registers a .47 on breath tester
Apr 18 2007 9:51PM (CT)
REDMOND, Wash. (AP) - A Woodinville woman arrested following two car crashes last week registered a .47 blood-alcohol content on a breath test _ nearly six times the legal intoxication threshold and possibly a state record.
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Sex predator hotline goes to sex line
Apr 18 2007 9:27PM (CT)
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) - Talk about your wrong number. An effort to provide constituents with a hotline number that helps track the location of sexual predators backfired for a group of Long Island politicians when they mistakenly listed a telephone number that connects callers to a sex chat line.
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Ohio principal convicted of kissing feet
Apr 18 2007 9:16PM (CT)
LORAIN, Ohio (AP) - A former principal who kissed the feet of three male students to settle a bet on a volleyball game has been convicted of a misdemeanor sex charge.
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Woman sues after falling into open grave
Apr 18 2007 8:26PM (CT)
HIGHLANDS, N.C. (AP) - An elderly woman who broke her hip when she fell into an open grave as she tried to place flowers on a friend's casket is suing the town and the funeral home.
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Semi driver checks on doughnuts, crashes
Apr 18 2007 8:25PM (CT)
MINOT, N.D. (AP) - A semi driver whose truck rolled on its side, dumping a load of specialty sunflower seeds, says it happened when he tried to check on a couple of doughnuts.
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Dead alligator found in Indiana drain
Apr 18 2007 8:23PM (CT)
BERNE, Ind. (AP) - Surveyors looking for the source of a clogged drain in southern Adams County found a 7-foot dead alligator. "At first they thought it was a turtle in there, but then they discovered an alligator," Adams County sheriff's Deputy Larry Butler said.
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Conservation officer: Wolf chased cars
Apr 18 2007 8:23PM (CT)
BRIMSON, Minn. (AP) - When conservation officer Steve Peterson got a call that a timber wolf was chasing vehicles on a country road near Brimson, he thought it was prank or a misidentified German shepherd. But then he saw it firsthand.
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Pair looking for drug dealer dial 911
Apr 18 2007 7:55PM (CT)
POMONA, Calif. (AP) - Two men were arrested Tuesday after they mistakenly called 911 when they were trying to page a drug dealer, police said. Paul White, 38, and Ryan Ogle, 25, punched 911 as an urgent code to the dealer when they made the call from a pay phone around 3 a.m., Sgt. Michael Olivieri said.
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Zoo asks visitors not to stare at chimps
Apr 18 2007 4:03PM (CT)
ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) - We all know not to feed the animals that when visiting the zoo. Now the Antwerp Zoo has urged visitors to, please, stop staring at the chimpanzees.
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Zoo asks visitors not to stare at chimps
Apr 18 2007 4:03PM (CT)
ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) - We all know not to feed the animals that when visiting the zoo. Now the Antwerp Zoo has urged visitors to, please, stop staring at the chimpanzees.
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Zoo asks visitors not to stare at chimps
Apr 18 2007 4:03PM (CT)
ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) - We all know not to feed the animals that when visiting the zoo. Now the Antwerp Zoo has urged visitors to, please, stop staring at the chimpanzees.
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Fla. city may discuss duck feeding ban
Apr 18 2007 4:00PM (CT)
COOPER CITY, Fla. (AP) - A Cooper City commissioner wants to discuss a ban on feeding ducks after learning of a messy dispute between two neighbors. Darlene Goldberg, 56, said her neighbor feeds about a half-dozen ducks every day, which leads to poop all over her patio furniture.
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Smoke break saves S.C. woman from tree
Apr 18 2007 3:42PM (CT)
ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) - Smoking just might have saved Brenda Comer's life. She said she had just finished washing dishes Monday and stepped outside to smoke a cigarette when an 80-foot oak tree crashed through her roof, landing across the sink where she had been standing just seconds before.
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Garbled message puts Iowa town on alert
Apr 18 2007 3:39PM (CT)
OSAGE, Iowa (AP) - Officials in Mitchell County went on high alert _ over a parking problem. The reason for the alert was a garbled telephone message left by a mushy-voiced caller, officials at the sheriff's office said.
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Leaping sturgeon injures Florida woman
Apr 18 2007 3:34PM (CT)
OLD TOWN, Fla. (AP) - A sturgeon jumped out of a river and hit a woman riding a personal watercraft causing severe injuries, the latest accident involving the flying fish along the Suwannee River, officials said.
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Detroit's urban coyote pregnant
Apr 18 2007 9:41AM (CT)
DETROIT (AP) - A cagey urban coyote that eluded authorities in a nearly hourlong foot chase through downtown Detroit is expecting.
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Beijing says no red hair for cabbies
Apr 18 2007 6:39AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Red hair and the big earrings are out for women Beijing cab drivers in the run-up to next summer's Olympic Games, a state-run newspaper reported Wednesday.
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Bin Laden look-alike runs for election
Apr 18 2007 5:34AM (CT)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Philippine elections are largely a battle of name recall, so Agakhan Sharief has chosen a moniker that will surely capture the attention of voters well beyond his backwater southern province _ Osama bin Laden.
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Scientist emerges from underwater box
Apr 18 2007 4:01AM (CT)
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - An Australian scientist emerged Wednesday after spending nearly two weeks underwater in a steel box, pedaling a stationary bicycle to generate his own electricity and growing algae to convert carbon dioxide into oxygen.
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Woman's eBay sale doesn't go too well
Apr 18 2007 1:59AM (CT)
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Things didn't work out as planned for a St. Paul woman who wanted to sell nearly all her possessions on eBay.
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