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Loaded gun found on back of bank toilet
Aug 2 2006 9:09PM (CT)
BROOKFIELD, Wis. (AP) - Imagine using the restroom at your local bank and finding a loaded handgun on the back of the toilet. A Guaranty Bank employee discovered the gun Tuesday and called police, said Brookfield police Capt. Phil Horter.
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Dog destroys Elvis' teddy bear at museum
Aug 2 2006 9:07PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - A guard dog has ripped apart a collection of rare teddy bears, including one once owned by Elvis Presley, during a rampage at a children's museum.
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Man in passenger seat fights DUI charge
Aug 2 2006 4:05PM (CT)
CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) - A man charged with drunken driving from the passenger's seat has asked a judge to throw out an incriminating statement he made to a state trooper.
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India tries to chase monkeys from trains
Aug 2 2006 3:45PM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - In an effort to keep monkeys out of the New Delhi subways, authorities have called in one of the few animals known to scare the creatures _ a fierce-looking primate called the langur, the Hindustan Times newspaper reported Wednesday.
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Cockatoo owners move after noise feud
Aug 2 2006 3:30PM (CT)
SUMMERVILLE, S.C. (AP) - It may not go down as one of the world's more notable confrontations, but after months of fighting, the cockatoo conflict is over. A couple who kept seven of the noisy birds in their backyard have left town after months of fighting with neighbors.
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Nude man leads police to marijuana farm
Aug 2 2006 3:20PM (CT)
HIGHLAND MILLS, N.Y. (AP) - Robert Ferranti probably has more than the usual regrets of someone found rolling around naked on a neighborhood street, babbling, immune to pepper spray and accused of punching a police officer.
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Flea infestation shuts Wis. fire station
Aug 2 2006 3:19PM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - The Milwaukee Fire Department said it had to close an engine house on Tuesday after it became infested with fleas. The station on the city's south side became infested after firefighters responded to an early morning fire at a condemned home, said department spokesman Lt. Brian O'Connor.
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Man accused of tapping power for 14 years
Aug 2 2006 3:15PM (CT)
ANSONIA, Conn. (AP) - A former Ansonia man has been charged with stealing tens of thousands of dollars worth of electricity over a period of 14 years.
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Surgeons find knife, nails in stomach
Aug 2 2006 3:10PM (CT)
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) - A team of surgeons in western Serbia earlier this week took out eight nails, a knife, a pen, a screw, a spoon, a clothes-peg and other, smaller objects, from a young man's stomach, one of the doctors said Wednesday.
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22-month old baby loves to water ski
Aug 2 2006 8:32AM (CT)
MENOMONIE, Wis. (AP) - You may have to look twice, but yes, that's a baby water-skiing on Tainter Lake in western Wisconsin. Twenty-two-month-old Cole Marsolek of Menomonie took up water-skiing last Wednesday on a training ski.
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Girl scout leader accused of stealing
Aug 2 2006 3:52AM (CT)
DELAWARE, Ohio (AP) - A Girl Scout leader has been charged with stealing $5,000 raised by a central Ohio troop through cookie sales and other fundraisers.
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