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Polite food fight gets students new menu
Jul 30 2007 5:51PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Even someone who believes you can fight city hall might think twice before taking on the lunch lady. But some second-graders who raised their voices over reheated frozen green beans are being rewarded with tastier vegetables.
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Fans honor 'world's worst poet'
Jul 30 2007 7:37AM (CT)
EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) - The land that gave the world Robert Burns also has the dubious honor of producing the "world's worst poet." Now fans of the hapless William McGonagall are campaigning to put him in the pantheon of Scottish literary greats.
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Exclamation point costs texter a win
Jul 30 2007 6:32AM (CT)
MINOT, N.D. (AP) - Oh, no! Don't forget the exclamation point! It could cost you $1,000! Kevin Taylor, 30, of Minneapolis, lost out on a $1,000 first prize in a text messaging contest at the North Dakota State Fair because he forgot the punctuation mark at the end of a phrase that he and his sudden-death competitor had to enter.
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NYC sells coins from parking meters
Jul 30 2007 6:31AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The city is selling 500 pounds of foreign coins that found their way into its parking meters this year.
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