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Tokyo store selling diamond-studded cake
Dec 21 2005 5:21PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - The economy is finally picking up, and Tokyoites are in a spending mood this winter. So how better to celebrate Christmas than with a diamond-studded, $1.7 million cake?
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Double-mouthed fish pulled from Neb. lake
Dec 21 2005 5:21PM (CT)
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - This fish didn't have a chance. A rainbow trout pulled out of Holmes Lake last weekend had double the chance to get hooked: It had two mouths.
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Ill. man takes in Santa Claus' reindeer
Dec 21 2005 5:14PM (CT)
LAKE VILLA, Ill. (AP) - It doesn't take much sleuthing to guess Rich Rosko's favorite holiday: He owns a Christmas tree farm, built a log cabin at a Wisconsin resort called Christmas Mountain Village and has owned pet reindeer for years.
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Castle that inspired 'Hamlet' said haunted
Dec 21 2005 3:40PM (CT)
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - There is something spooky going on around the Danish castle that inspired William Shakespeare as the scene for his play Hamlet.
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Trinidad judge 'grounds' teenager
Dec 21 2005 11:16AM (CT)
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) - A Trinidad teenager has been "grounded" by a judge after the youth faked his own kidnapping and told his mother that abductors would send his head home in a bag if she didn't pay a ransom.
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Ice chunk falls from sky in Japan
Dec 21 2005 10:50AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - A disc-shaped piece of ice of unknown origin plummeted from the sky onto a golf course near Tokyo Wednesday, narrowly missing players on the fairway but causing no injuries, police said.
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Judge rules in favor of horse chiropractor
Dec 21 2005 6:30AM (CT)
JASPER, Ind. (AP) - A judge has ruled that a chiropractor reprimanded by the state last year for treating horses should not have been censured.
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Teen pleads guilty after blog confession
Dec 21 2005 6:27AM (CT)
TAVARES, Fla. (AP) - An 18-year-old passenger who caused a fatal crash by pulling on the steering wheel pleaded guilty to DUI manslaughter after prosecutors discovered a confession on his online blog.
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French Spiderman climbs Paris tower
Dec 21 2005 3:18AM (CT)
PARIS (AP) - Spiderman wants justice. The French skyscraper climber who goes by the name of the comic book superhero climbed a 28-story building in Paris on Tuesday to protest what he said was unfair treatment by U.S. police.
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