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Lemonade stand dispute ends in 'merger'
Aug 3 2005 10:13PM (CT)
SALEM, Mass. (AP) - A dispute between two boys hawking lemonade and a rival vendor who forced police to shut down their unlicensed stand was resolved Wednesday after the mayor orchestrated what he called "a corporate merger."
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Golf outing allegedly involves strippers
Aug 3 2005 8:36PM (CT)
NAPERVILLE, Ill. (AP) - Police on Wednesday were investigating a golf outing sponsored by a gentleman's club in this Chicago suburb that allegedly featured women strippers in bikinis giving male golfers lap dances.
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Vendor, lemonade stand dispute resolved
Aug 3 2005 8:36PM (CT)
SALEM, Mass. (AP) - A dispute between two grade-school boys hawking lemonade on Salem Common and a rival vendor who forced police to shut down their unlicensed stand was resolved Wednesday after the mayor orchestrated what he called "a corporate merger."
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Cops: Man invents story to make wife leave
Aug 3 2005 8:32PM (CT)
OCALA, Fla. (AP) - A man made up a story about killing a hitchhiker and burying the body in the woods in an effort to persuade his wife to leave him, authorities said.
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Electrocuted squirrel blamed for outage
Aug 3 2005 4:45PM (CT)
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) - A squirrel was blamed for a power outage at South Lake Tahoe that left about 3,200 Sierra Pacific Power Co. customers without electricity. Power was restored Tuesday after about 25 minutes, utility officials said.
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Briefcase at mosque has possible donation
Aug 3 2005 4:38PM (CT)
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A briefcase found Wednesday outside a San Antonio mosque was thought to possibly be a bomb, so police cleared away worshippers, sealed off the area and evacuated dozens of people from a nearby apartment complex. But the metal case turned out to have unexpected contents _ an apparent cash donation to the mosque.
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Police search for thief with big nose
Aug 3 2005 3:25PM (CT)
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - It wasn't a big gun or knife that caught the eye of an armed thief's victim in Austria's capital. Instead, the bandit's protruding nose left its mark.
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Report: Yoga stir tempers in Norway prison
Aug 3 2005 3:07PM (CT)
OSLO, Norway (AP) - A Norwegian prison has stopped giving yoga sessions to inmates after finding that some of the prisoners became more aggressive and agitated, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
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Man pays speeding ticket in pennies
Aug 3 2005 3:07PM (CT)
MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) - A man ticketed for speeding thought he'd get even by paying his fine with 12,000 pennies. But the judge had the final word by making him wait for the change to be counted.
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Woman loses her ring in Iraq care package
Aug 3 2005 10:06AM (CT)
ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) - Among the candy, shampoo, bandages and snacks, Nicole Vargas accidentally packed a pricey surprise in her care package for soldiers in Iraq _ her wedding ring.
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Ill. nudist to be buried fully clothed
Aug 3 2005 10:06AM (CT)
PEKIN, Illinois (AP) - Even in death, Robert Norton's nakedness is a no-no. Norton, 82, spent four decades in and out of court fighting repeated arrests for gardening and wandering his yard in the nude. He said he wanted to be buried without any clothes, but his family is sending him to eternity wearing gray slacks and a matching shirt.
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