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Inmate gardeners win big at Vermont fair
Sep 6 2005 6:10PM (CT)
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - A big winner in the gardening competitions at the Champlain Valley Fair were the vegetables and flowers grown by inmates from the Northwest State Correctional Facility in St. Albans.
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Unique L.A. school offers mule training
Sep 6 2005 5:35PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Sugar the mule was anything but sweet. She bit her owner, kicked him and dragged him around his corral. "At first I could do things with her, but she slowly turned on me," said Will Green, a 43-year-old warehouseman, who bought Sugar and a two-acre Mojave desert spread to lead a life of packing and hunting.
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Girl captures gator after watching TV show
Sep 6 2005 5:20PM (CT)
TARENTUM, Pa. (AP) - Crocus, a 2-foot pet alligator escaped from his backyard enclosure, but was captured by a girl who used what she learned on a nature TV program.
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Man survives being shocked by 2,000 volts
Sep 6 2005 4:58PM (CT)
MOORCROFT, Wyo. (AP) - A worker survived being shocked by 2,000 volts of electricity for about 30 seconds. John Zimmerschied, 35, of Moorcroft, was working inside an electrical box when the accident happened about 9:30 a.m. Friday, Sheriff's Cpl. Eric Hyland said.
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Aussies try to smuggle food into prisons
Sep 6 2005 9:45AM (CT)
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Lamb chops, steak and rice cookers were among packages of contraband intercepted by prison authorities in a recent crackdown, an official said Tuesday.
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Japan's imperial palace selling copper
Sep 6 2005 9:43AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Oxidized copper is prized in Japan as a natural paint pigment for its unique tint of bluish green. Now artists willing to pay the price will be able to dip their brushes in an especially precious palette _ paints made from the oxidized copper roofing of the imperial palace.
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Sgt. mother and son serving in Kuwait
Sep 6 2005 9:37AM (CT)
ARLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - Sgt. Julie Robertson doesn't mind being called Mom by some of the guys in her National Guard unit. That's because her oldest son Ryan, 25, is stationed at the same base camp as she is near the Iraq border in Kuwait.
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