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School sends kids to closed amusement park
Apr 26 2006 6:35PM (CT)
RENO, Nev. (AP) - Four bus loads of students from O'Brien Middle School made the four-hour trip to Six Flags Marine World in Vallejo, Calif., only to find the amusement park's gates locked Monday. The school-sponsored trip was supposed to reward top students.
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Teen inmate gets more time for pot request
Apr 26 2006 5:37PM (CT)
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A judge changed a sentence from six months in prison to eight years after a teenager convicted in a drive-by shooting wrote a letter asking a friend to take over his marijuana dealings.
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Police find dog carcass dressed in clothes
Apr 26 2006 4:38PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Police found a dead dog dressed in blue jeans, a T-shirt, socks, tennis shoes and a baseball cap on the rear porch of a home on Monday in the Stanton Heights neighborhood.
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Worker locks would-be robber inside bank
Apr 26 2006 4:22PM (CT)
BALDWIN PARK, Calif. (AP) - A gunman who tried to rob a San Gabriel Valley bank Wednesday morning found himself locked alone inside the building by a quick-thinking employee, police said.
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Gator bites diver retrieving golf balls
Apr 26 2006 4:20PM (CT)
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A diver hired by the city to retrieve golf balls from a lake was attacked by a 9-foot alligator that bit the man's arm, authorities said.
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Man hires crane to uproot newsstands
Apr 26 2006 4:16PM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A man hired a crane to uproot half a dozen newsstands that were not his and move them to street corners where he had sought, but had not received, permits to do business, officials said.
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Eye the anaconda survives music store fire
Apr 26 2006 3:44PM (CT)
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - Firefighters expected to find only charred debris when they poked through the burned out hulk of a music store. Instead, they stumbled upon a slithering, 6-foot anaconda.
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Indian man claims he found condom in cola
Apr 26 2006 3:41PM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - A consumer court Wednesday ordered soft drink maker PepsiCo to pay financial damages after a customer found a condom inside a bottle, a news report said.
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Judge hints at code in 'Da Vinci' ruling
Apr 26 2006 2:59PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - The judge who presided at the "Da Vinci Code" copyright infringement trial has put a code of his own into his ruling, and he said Wednesday he would "probably" confirm it to the person who breaks it.
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Hannah named 'Most Beautiful Bulldog'
Apr 26 2006 10:13AM (CT)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - To those who know her best, Hannah is the ultimate girly girl. She enjoys socializing in the neighborhood, wearing fancy outfits and pursuing a shoe fetish that would rival any Hollywood starlet.
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English language hits 1 billion words
Apr 26 2006 8:39AM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - A massive language research database responsible for bringing words such as "podcast" and "celebutante" to the pages of the Oxford dictionaries has officially hit a total of 1 billion words, researchers said Wednesday.
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