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Man pays big tax bill in coins, $1 bills
Aug 14 2007 9:59PM (CT)
MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) - A landlord said he wanted people to see the pain of his property tax bill when he hauled $12,656.07 in coins and $1 bills to the county treasurer's office.
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Ind. tax protester adds his 2 cents
Aug 14 2007 9:59PM (CT)
MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) - A landlord said he wanted people to see the pain of his property tax bill when he hauled $12,656.07 in coins and $1 bills to the county treasurer's office.
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'Duct tape bandit' charged in robbery
Aug 14 2007 9:10PM (CT)
ASHLAND, Ky. (AP) - Laughter might be unexpected in a liquor store where a robbery just occurred. But that's how employees responded to the "Duct Tape Bandit" who hit Shamrock Liquors in Ashland and fled nearly empty handed.
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'Duct tape bandit' charged in robbery
Aug 14 2007 9:10PM (CT)
ASHLAND, Ky. (AP) - Laughter might be unexpected in a liquor store where a robbery just occurred. But that's how employees responded to the "Duct Tape Bandit" who hit Shamrock Liquors in Ashland and fled nearly empty handed.
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'Duct tape bandit' charged in robbery
Aug 14 2007 9:10PM (CT)
ASHLAND, Ky. (AP) - Laughter might be unexpected in a liquor store where a robbery just occurred. But that's how employees responded to the "Duct Tape Bandit" who hit Shamrock Liquors in Ashland and fled nearly empty handed.
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Driver seeking a brake job crashes
Aug 14 2007 9:10PM (CT)
LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) - Yep. It was the brakes all right. A motorist whose brakes were "acting strange" and wanted them checked drove through the front window of a tire store when the brakes failed as he was pulling into a parking slip, Longview police Officer Erik Hendrickson said.
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Man allegedly does figure-8's in plane
Aug 14 2007 9:09PM (CT)
SHERMAN, Texas (AP) - This joy ride was grounded from the start. A sheriff's deputy arrested a man accused of getting into a small, private plane and doing figure-8's on the grass.
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Monkey apparently picks lock, escapes
Aug 14 2007 9:09PM (CT)
TUPELO, Mississippi (AP) - A monkey that freed himself two weeks ago from a Mississippi zoo has escaped again, zoo officials said. Tupelo Buffalo Park and Zoo Manager Kirk Nemecheck and other employees noticed the white-faced capuchin's cage open and lock on the ground around 8:30 a.m. Monday.
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Mom sentenced for posing as son's wife
Aug 14 2007 9:09PM (CT)
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - A woman was sentenced to 30 days in jail for claiming in court that she was her son's wife. Christopher Crowe, 25, was in court recently to plead guilty to four felony counts including residential entry and domestic battery.
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Cremated human remains found in mailbox
Aug 14 2007 9:00PM (CT)
POTTSTOWN, Pa. (AP) - Cremated human remains were found Tuesday inside a package placed in a mail collection box, police said. "In my 19 years of police work, never has something like this occurred," Pottstown police Capt. F. Richard Drumheller said.
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Boy, 10, gets locked in store's gun safe
Aug 14 2007 3:32PM (CT)
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) - Gun safes are supposed to keep children out, but a 10-year-old boy managed to lock himself in. Daniel Jancura and two other boys were playing with a safe on display at a Sam's Club on Monday when he became trapped inside. It was at least 15 minutes before firefighters and store employees could get him out.
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Buddhist ritual upsets state eco agency
Aug 14 2007 10:25AM (CT)
PATERSON, N.J. (AP) - Members of a Buddhist sect bought hundreds of eels, frogs and turtles and set them free in the Passaic River, hoping they would survive in the once-polluted stream and realize their karmic potential.
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No CSI or 'Law & Order' for jurors
Aug 14 2007 8:42AM (CT)
HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) - Most jurors are told not to read news about their case. Jurors in Butler County can't even look forward to their weekly installment of "CSI."
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Trash trucks dwindling in W.Va. city
Aug 14 2007 12:42AM (CT)
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) - It's tough times for trash haulers in West Virginia's second-largest city, which is down to three working garbage trucks.
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