Offbeat News
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1873 dime sells for a pretty penny: $1.6 million
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:00PM August 10, 2012 CommentPHILADELPHIA (AP) — A dime made in 1873 has cost someone a pretty penny: It sold for $1.6 million at auction.
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NJ town considers goats to eat poison ivy
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:27AM August 10, 2012 CommentSEASIDE PARK, N.J. (AP) — Officials in a New Jersey shore town might use goats from Maryland to rid an environmentally-sensitive area of poison ivy.
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Survivor's video shows harrowing Idaho plane crash
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:52PM August 09, 2012 CommentBOISE, Idaho (AP) — The survivors of a plane crash in central Idaho can prove just how close they came to death, with a seven-minute video documenting their harrowing experience, including the bloody aftermath.
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Pa. road crew paints yellow line over dead raccoon
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:35PM August 09, 2012 CommentJOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The "squirrelly" configuration of a western Pennsylvania road helped cause a state road crew to paint a double-yellow line over a dead raccoon.
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Required viewing: Cambodian PM speaks for 5 hours
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:23AM August 09, 2012 CommentPHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — He's no Castro or Chavez, but Asia's longest serving ruler has set what appears to be a personal record for longest public speech: 5 hours and 20 minutes.
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Badger dodges dart, then caged inside Nevada store
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:04AM August 09, 2012 CommentSPARKS, Nev. (AP) — A badger that wandered into a retail store in northern Nevada dodged a tranquilizer dart and held authorities at bay for about an hour before the teeth-baring critter was lured into a cage with cat food.
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Pittsburgh-area man to put ashes in bowling ball
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:59AM August 09, 2012 CommentTURTLE CREEK, Pa. (AP) — A Pittsburgh-area bowling fanatic has gotten a Utah company to fashion a bowling ball urn for his ashes.
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Wild bees sting Texas man more than 300 times
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:56AM August 09, 2012 CommentPFLUGERVILLE, Texas (AP) — A 40-year-old warehouse worker has been stung more than 300 times after accidentally disturbing a massive colony of Africanized bees in Central Texas.
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Police: Pa. man made 911 call during drug deal
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:46AM August 09, 2012 CommentSCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — Police say a northeastern Pennsylvania man accidentally dialed 911 during a drug deal, leading to the entire conversation being recorded and his subsequent arrest.
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DC man orders TV, gets assault rifle instead
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:36AM August 09, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — A Washington musician who ordered a flat-screen TV from Amazon.com was shocked to receive a semiautomatic assault rifle instead.
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NYC vibrator giveaway shut down due to crowds
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:07AM August 09, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — A vibrator giveaway that attracted long lines in New York City came to an abrupt end when the city told the promoters to pack it up.
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Billboard with dummy on noose shocks Vegas drivers
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:16PM August 08, 2012 CommentLAS VEGAS (AP) — Even by Las Vegas standards, it was a shocking billboard: A mannequin dangling on a hangman's noose below a black sign with the ominous words "Dying for Work."
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Careful Black Bear Raids Colorado Chocolate Shop
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:46PM August 08, 2012 CommentDENVER (AP) — A bear in a candy store is nothing like a bull in a china shop. At least not this one.
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Glasses look to keep Israeli women out of sight
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:16PM August 08, 2012 CommentJERUSALEM (AP) — It's the latest prescription for extreme ultra-Orthodox Jewish men who shun contact with the opposite sex: Glasses that blur their vision, so they don't have to see women they consider to be immodestly dressed.
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Ohio teen collapses after 4-day Xbox marathon
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:49AM August 08, 2012 CommentCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A four-day Xbox gaming marathon apparently was too much for one 15-year-old Ohio boy.
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South Koreans face heat wave by dining on dog meat
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:35AM August 07, 2012 CommentSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Some South Koreans are easing the "Dog Days of Summer" by embracing a tradition of eating dog meat to help survive a heat wave gripping the country.
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2 men charged with staging Pa. reality TV robbery
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:57PM August 06, 2012 CommentINDIANA, Pa. (AP) — Police have charged two out-of-state men with robbing two other men in western Pennsylvania by claiming they were recording a video for a reality TV show called "You Just Got Robbed."
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Man sets fire to home by microwaving socks, undies
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:02PM August 06, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — Note to self: A microwave is for leftovers, not your boxers.
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Fire alarm blares 15 hours at Pa. public housing
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:30PM August 06, 2012 CommentWILKINSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A fire alarm that blared for more than 15 hours at a Pittsburgh-area public housing complex has finally been shut off.
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Kissing protest follows arrest in northern Mexico
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:01PM August 06, 2012 CommentMEXICO CITY (AP) — The arrest of a man after a woman objected to him kissing his female companion in public has prompted a "kiss-in" protest in a conservative Mexico city.
