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Piano found near summit of mountain
May 17 2006 8:35PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Volunteers tidying up Britain's highest mountain have found a piano near the summit, a conservation group said Wednesday.
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Ark. mayor accused in sex-for-water case
May 17 2006 8:02PM (CT)
WALDRON, Ark. (AP) - Waldron's mayor was released on a signature bond Wednesday after being accused of soliciting two women for sex after they fell behind on their water bills.
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Bears eat monkey in front of zoo visitors
May 17 2006 5:47PM (CT)
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - Bears killed and ate a monkey in a Dutch zoo in front of horrified visitors, witnesses and the zoo said Monday. In the incident Sunday at the Beekse Bergen Safari Park, several Sloth bears chased the Barbary macaque into an electric fence, where it was stunned.
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Wash. church organist charged with fraud
May 17 2006 5:18PM (CT)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - A church organist has been charged with nearly 200 counts of theft for allegedly collecting about $400,000 in state workers' compensation payments intended for her dead mother.
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Kentucky family fights to keep pet lion
May 17 2006 4:10PM (CT)
MELVIN, Ky. (AP) - Amid a backdrop of colorful swingsets, clunky cars and giggling kids, a beast with a thick mane and daunting eyes paces in his cage. To some around this small Appalachian town, he's a frightening menace. To others, he's the local mascot, a novelty.
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Texas takes aim at 'gas pill'
May 17 2006 3:32PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - What do mothballs and toilet bowl deodorant bars have to do with drastically improving gas mileage?
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Texas takes aim at 'gas pill'
May 17 2006 3:32PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - What do mothballs and toilet bowl deodorant bars have to do with drastically improving gas mileage?
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Company wants to trademark pizza scent
May 17 2006 3:16PM (CT)
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) - The aroma of a freshly baked pizza is arguably as universally recognizable as that of a newly mowed lawn or a fresh cup of coffee.
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Thief steals Calif. homeowner's front yard
May 17 2006 3:14PM (CT)
ADELANTO, California (AP) - It was a sod story for a Mojave Desert homeowner whose entire front yard _ grass, bushes and sprinklers _ was hauled away by a thief.
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Dog rescues boy, 9, from Colorado river
May 17 2006 3:13PM (CT)
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - A Labrador retriever rescued a 9-year-old survivor of Hurricane Katrina from a river after the boy's raft hit a log and he fell overboard, authorities said.
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Man claims to find rodent tooth in peanuts
May 17 2006 3:10PM (CT)
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) - A man is suing Kraft Foods Inc., claiming he found what appeared to be a rodent tooth in a package of Planters peanuts he bought last year.
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