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Schwarzenegger to play pingpong champion
Aug 3 2006 10:38PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has agreed to play an 80-year-old pingpong champion who said he would donate to the Republican's re-election campaign only if he agreed to a match.
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Dog alerts family to house fire
Aug 3 2006 10:10PM (CT)
HUNTINGTON STATION, N.Y. (AP) - A family's dog is being lauded as a heroine after waking an 8-year-old girl when a fire broke out at their home. Katarina Scholz jumped from her bed about 4 a.m. Thursday and followed her barking 2-year-old bull mastiff, Daisy, downstairs to alert the rest of the family, Suffolk County fire officials said.
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N.H. woman bakes cookies on dashboard
Aug 3 2006 8:55PM (CT)
BEDFORD, N.H. (AP) - Blistering heat was just what Sandi Fontaine needed to bake cookies for her co-workers _ on the dash of her Toyota Rav4.
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Woman gets stuck on toilet, suffers burns
Aug 3 2006 8:54PM (CT)
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) - A woman who became stuck to a toilet seat in a shopping mall restroom was treated at a local hospital after paramedics used fingernail polish remover to free her, officials said.
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Police arrest man after nunchuks threat
Aug 3 2006 4:27PM (CT)
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) - A man was charged after police say he threatened a detective with nunchuks. McCory J. Slemmons, 26, of Davenport, was charged Wednesday with assault while displaying a dangerous weapon and public intoxication.
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Cambodians to throw a potty party
Aug 3 2006 3:08PM (CT)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - The residents of a Cambodian village will throw a party this weekend to celebrate a sanitation milestone: a toilet in every home.
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Ore. Panty thief gets an extra 18 months
Aug 3 2006 3:07PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Panty thief Sung Koo Kim may face about nine years in prison for stealing thousands of pairs of underwear from college dorm rooms, laundry rooms and campus-area apartments.
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Police offered prizes for most tickets
Aug 3 2006 3:06PM (CT)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Charlotte-Mecklenburg police supervisors offered prizes to officers who wrote the most traffic tickets during an eight-day period over the July Fourth holiday.
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Artist finds inspiration in British heat
Aug 3 2006 12:55PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - An English performance artist on Thursday unveiled an absurd solution to the record heat bedeviling Britain this summer: a "commute suit."
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Millionaire to challenge $90M divorce
Aug 3 2006 12:51PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - A multimillionaire insurance magnate said Thursday he would challenge a judge's order that he give his ex-wife $90 million in cash and assets in one of the biggest divorce settlements in British history.
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