Teen sells 17,328 boxes of Girl Scout cookies
8:35PM CT
DETROIT (AP) - A Girl Scout sold 17,328 boxes of the group's signature cookies this year by setting up shop on a street corner, shattering her troop's old mark and probably setting a national record. Jennifer Sharpe, a 15-year-old from Dearborn, plans to travel to Europe with her troop with the proceeds from her feat.
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Giant beetles seized at Pennsylvania post office
5:38PM CT
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Customs agents seized more than two dozen giant beetles — some the size of a child's hand — from an overseas package after postal workers heard the insects making scratching noises.
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10-year-old scholar takes Calif. college by storm
2:14PM CT
DOWNEY, Calif. (AP) - With the end of another school year approaching, college sophomore Moshe Kai Cavalin is cramming for final exams in classes such as advanced mathematics, foreign languages and music. But Cavalin is only 10 years old. And at 4-foot-7, his shoes don't quite touch the floor as he puts down a schoolbook and swivels around in his chair to greet a visitor.
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Police thwart scheme to steal light poles
2:53PM CT
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) - Police say a dimwitted scheme to steal light poles from a village storage yard has resulted in two arrests on Long Island. Nassau County Police Lt. Ray Cote said Wednesday that neighbors noticed two men carving up the aluminum poles with a cordless power tool and stashing them in a van under the cover of darkness. He says plainclothes officers arrived and caught the thieves in the act.
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Texas cops: Substitute teacher came to class drunk
2:33PM CT
RICHARDSON, Texas (AP) - A substitute teacher suspected of being drunk in a suburban Dallas middle school class was too intoxicated to complete a sobriety test and was arrested, authorities said.
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Woman accused of faking cancer to avoid work
3:27PM CT
ARLINGTON, Wash. (AP) - A former Washington state social worker has been accused of faking brain cancer to avoid work. Theft charges were filed Tuesday against Sandra Dee Martinez, 40, formerly of Mountlake Terrace, who was employed by the Department of Social and Health Services in Arlington.
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Mich. city spends $5.21 to mail 51-cent tax bill
2:13PM CT
BRIGHTON, Mich. (AP) - A Michigan doctor is getting a laugh out of a 51-cent property tax bill. It isn't just that Phil Kazanji's bill is so low. It's that it cost the city of Brighton $5.21 to send it to him by certified mail.
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911 operator fired for cursing after report
4:33PM CT
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Nashville 911 operator has been fired after he was recorded saying that he didn't "give a s---" about what happened to a woman who had just called to report her ex-boyfriend was threatening her.
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Forgotten tot left behind at Vancouver airport
7:41AM CT
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) - An immigrant family left a 23-month-old boy in the Vancouver airport and learned he was missing only when contacted during the next leg of the trip.
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