Offbeat News
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Motorcyclist Clocked Going 193 mph on NY Highway
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:34AM May 31, 2012 Comment
a low angle shot of two motorcycles on a country road with lightly clouded blue skies as a background
ROSENDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a 28-year-old man in upstate New York has been charged with driving his motorcycle at nearly 200 mph on a highway in the rain.
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Calif. man reunited with iguana after burglary
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:53AM June 01, 2012 CommentBELLFLOWER, Calif. (AP) — They didn't have to call Ace Ventura, or any other pet detective. A group of Los Angeles County deputies solved a case of lizard larceny on their own.
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Bear crashes graduation in Bakersfield
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:55PM May 31, 2012 CommentBAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — The last day of classes at a California elementary school and a graduation ceremony at an adjacent middle school were interrupted by an unexpected guest: a black bear that wandered onto school property.
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Arizona man's heirs get cash found hidden in walls
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:14PM May 31, 2012 CommentPHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona court says a man's heirs are entitled to $500,000 cash that was found in the walls of his former home years after he died.
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$4K golden vibrator stolen in armed Brazil heist
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:04PM May 31, 2012 CommentBRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — An armed man in Brazil has heisted an 18-carat gold-plated vibrator selling for $4,000 at a luxury sex shop.
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Supersized hen egg in Texas had another egg inside
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:04PM May 31, 2012 CommentABILENE, Texas (AP) — A Texas woman who found an egg the size of a baseball in her chicken coop cracked it open to find another full egg inside.
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Alaska's remote Rat Island gets a new name
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:39PM May 31, 2012 CommentANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — With the rats dead and gone from Rat Island, the Alaska island has a new name.
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Police say Ohio woman broke into house to clean it
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:01PM May 31, 2012 CommentELYRIA, Ohio (AP) — Police in suburban Cleveland say a woman who owns a cleaning service broke into a house and washed the dishes, took out the trash, and vacuumed before leaving a handwritten bill with her name on it.
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Giant cuckoo clock gets new home in Ohio village
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:32PM May 31, 2012 CommentSUGARCREEK, Ohio (AP) — One of the world's largest cuckoo clocks has a new home in an Ohio village.
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Drug dealer mistakenly sends officer text messages
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:48AM May 31, 2012 CommentSANTA MARIA, Calif. (AP) — Police say a drug dealer mistakenly sent messages to a California central coast police officer in an attempt to sell methamphetamines.
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Community, officials at odds over free-roaming dog
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:52PM May 30, 2012 CommentALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Blue the dog doesn't have a home. And he apparently doesn't want one. But the blue-eyed Australian cattle dog has $1,800 in savings, a Facebook page and an air-conditioned dog house.
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Drivers see scarf-wearing pig on Pittsburgh road
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:56PM May 30, 2012 CommentPITTSBURGH (AP) — Motorists have reported a sharp-dressed pig running loose on a highway just outside of Pittsburgh. State troopers also spotted the animal but failed to catch it before it scurried off into the woods.
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Police: Angry customer hits Taco Bell with truck
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:17PM May 30, 2012 CommentHUBER HEIGHTS, Ohio (AP) — Police in southwest Ohio say a customer angry over not getting a taco he ordered struck a Taco Bell restaurant's glass entrance with his truck. No one was injured.
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Firework lodges in man's chest; bomb squad called
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:16PM May 30, 2012 CommentST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota man is in critical condition after surgeons removed an unexploded firework from his chest after taking advice from the bomb squad.
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Woman Finds Bird With 2 Heads, 3 Beaks
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:41AM May 30, 2012 CommentNORTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP) — A Northampton woman made an unusual discovery in her yard — a deformed baby cardinal with two heads and three beaks.
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Elaborate Portland marriage proposal goes viral
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:40PM May 29, 2012 CommentPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Isaac Lamb acknowledges that his five-minute, block-long choreographed build-up to a marriage proposal has upped the stakes for everyone who follows.
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Musical magazine prompts courthouse evacuation
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:01PM May 29, 2012 CommentPOCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — Authorities say a package containing a magazine with a musical device, similar to those in greeting cards, prompted the evacuation of a federal courthouse in southeastern Idaho.
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Idaho: Five Wives Vodka offensive to residents
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:44PM May 29, 2012 CommentSALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Five Wives Vodka was named in bad taste and won't be stocked or special ordered at stores operated by the state of Idaho, regulators said.
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Malaysian 'WWW1' license plate sells for $165K
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:45AM May 28, 2012 CommentKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The World Wide Web has inspired a bidding war in Malaysia — on license plates.
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Park of animatronic dinosaurs opening in NJ
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:16PM May 25, 2012 CommentSECAUCUS, N.J. (AP) — A new family attraction featuring more than 30 animatronic dinosaurs opens this holiday weekend on 20 acres of woods and grass in northern New Jersey.
