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Calif. prankster changing traffic lights
Jun 22 2005 9:15PM (CT)
SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) - A tech-savvy prankster has been tampering with traffic lights in this Silicon Valley town, turning them off and rejigging wires so the lights flash red in all directions.
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Giant Popsicle melts, floods NYC park
Jun 22 2005 7:53PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - An attempt to raise the world's largest ice pop in a city square ended with a scene straight out of a disaster film _ but much stickier.
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Ohio women sit 20 days in car to win it
Jun 22 2005 7:52PM (CT)
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) - Are we there yet? Two women who have spent 20 days sitting in a car are locked in an endurance contest to win it.
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Pizza shop robber leaves job application
Jun 22 2005 7:51PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A man accused of holding up a pizza parlor left behind a job application with his real name and address, authorities said. "I would chalk it up to either inexperience or plain stupidity," Clark County prosecutor Frank Coumou told the Las Vegas Review-Journal for a Wednesday report.
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Seniors steaming over nude sculptures
Jun 22 2005 7:51PM (CT)
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (AP) - Some senior citizens have become very vocal art critics, especially after some nude sculptures turned up near the Middleton senior center.
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Mich. officials probe parking meter thefts
Jun 22 2005 7:43PM (CT)
KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) - Someone is stealing parking meters, poles and all, from the city's downtown. Fifty-seven of Kalamazoo's approximately 1,000 meters were taken in 10 days. None could hold more than about $10 in change.
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Raven chicks saved from compost heap
Jun 22 2005 7:26PM (CT)
KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) - Three raven chicks likely would have been ground up for compost, along with the pile of brush in which they were found, if they hadn't been squawking for food. The racket got the attention of landfill scale operator Laura Huffine who found the chicks Sunday in an intact nest.
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Cops: Man takes fire truck on joyride
Jun 22 2005 6:19PM (CT)
PORT HURON, Mich. (AP) - He paid the toll when he crossed the Blue Water Bridge, but Martin Chalker is still in trouble with authorities on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border.
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Ex-store owner finds niche in mannequins
Jun 22 2005 4:54PM (CT)
CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) - Former hardware store owner Dennis Gotthard said he has found a new niche dealing in hundreds of mannequins and mannequin parts.
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Snapple's 17-ton popsicle melts in N.Y.
Jun 22 2005 1:05PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - An attempt to erect the world's largest popsicle in a city square ended with a scene straight out of a disaster film, but much stickier.
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Man wakes up with a bullet in his tongue
Jun 22 2005 10:29AM (CT)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Police say a man who woke up with a serious headache walked 12 blocks to a hospital with a swollen lip and powder burns. Doctors discovered the problem. 47-year-old Wendell Coleman had a bullet lodged in his tongue.
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