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Nose for crime: $1.2M in French perfume nabbed
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:18PM August 03, 2012 CommentPARIS (AP) — French police say 1 million euro ($1.2 million) worth of Givenchy perfume has been recovered after it was stolen by masked thieves from a warehouse in the middle of the night.
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NY police save baby deer from 20-foot-deep manhole
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:19PM August 03, 2012 CommentMOUNT SINAI, N.Y. (AP) — Police on New York's Long Island spent over four hours rescuing a baby deer that fell into a 20-foot-deep manhole.
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Swarm of thousands of bees delay Pittsburgh flight
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:45AM August 03, 2012 CommentIMPERIAL, Pa. (AP) — A beekeeper says he had to be called into gather up a swarm of thousands of bees that delayed a Delta Air Lines flight from Pittsburgh International Airport to New York.
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Police: Vt. farmer crushed cop cars with tractor
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:55PM August 02, 2012 CommentNEWPORT, Vt. (AP) — Authorities say a Vermont farmer angry over a recent arrest used a large tractor like a monster truck, destroying seven police cruisers parked outside a sheriff's office.
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Puerto Rico mayor camps out to prove streets safe
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:57PM August 02, 2012 CommentSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The mayor of Puerto Rico's capital says he will sleep aboard a bus on the streets of San Juan to prove they are safe.
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Red British mailboxes painted gold for Olympians
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:10AM August 02, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — Britain is turning red into gold.
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Chihuahua finds 2 girls lost in Georgia forest
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:28AM August 02, 2012 CommentNEWNAN, Ga. (AP) — A Chihuahua is being hailed as a hero after authorities say it sniffed out two girls who were lost in a Georgia forest.
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NJ Man Finds Pythons In Yard Twice In 4 Days
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A 12-foot Burmese python is shown in Ketchum, Idaho.
WEST MILFORD, N.J. (AP) — Summer vacation has been anything but routine for a New York City social studies teacher who lives in northern New Jersey.
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Lost northern fur seal shows up on Hawaii beach
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:54PM August 01, 2012 CommentHONOLULU (AP) — A seal that would normally live in waters around the Aleutian Islands and California has shown up thousands of miles away on a beach in Hawaii, officials said Wednesday.
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Amorous bull damages Ark. deputy's patrol car
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:37PM August 01, 2012 CommentSHERWOOD, Ark. (AP) — A bull in the mood for love damaged an Arkansas sheriff's patrol car when it tried to mount a man who was leading the animal across a yard.
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Teddy bears drop in, bring down 2 Belarus generals
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:49PM August 01, 2012 CommentMINSK, Belarus (AP) — It's probably the first time in history that teddy bears have defeated generals.
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Police: Drunken man gets into dozing couple's bed
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:17AM August 01, 2012 CommentPUTNAM TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say a Michigan couple got an unexpected visit from a drunken 27-year-old neighbor who wandered into their cottage and climbed into bed with them.
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Police: Pa. man stole kitchen utensils, small dog
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:05AM August 01, 2012 CommentCORAOPOLIS, Pa. (AP) — A Pittsburgh man allegedly broke into a woman's apartment while drunk and stole a potato peeler, a kitchen knife and a small dog.
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NY couple, 85, to remarry 48 years after divorce
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:45PM July 31, 2012 CommentBUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — They got hitched while still in their teens, divorced 20 years and four children later, and are getting remarried after nearly a half-century apart.
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Wild West town for sale in Utah for $3.9 million
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:51PM July 31, 2012 CommentSALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The real estate listing reads like a Wild West exhibit: An old gold mine, a geyser, and a supposed hideout of famed outlaws.
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Crop circles appear in E. Washington wheat field
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:36PM July 31, 2012 CommentSEATTLE (AP) — Mysterious crop circles have appeared in an eastern Washington wheat field — not far from the nation's largest hydropower producer — but area farmers preparing for the summer's harvest find the distraction more amusing than alarming.
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Feds: Calif. man attempts to smuggle meth as candy
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:15PM July 30, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — A California man faces federal drug charges for allegedly trying to smuggle more than 4 pounds of methamphetamine to Japan in what looked like dozens of Snickers bars.
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Woman Arrested For Breaking Into Ohio Jail
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HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) — A woman in southwest Ohio has been arrested for trying to sneak into a county jail and telling authorities to arrest her.
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Minn. bikini parade falls far short of record
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:56PM July 28, 2012 CommentMADISON LAKE, Minn. (AP) — Only an itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny number of bikini-wearers turned out to strut their stuff in a southern Minnesota town.
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Boy hit by bird on NJ roller coaster
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:23AM July 27, 2012 CommentJACKSON, N.J. (AP) — A boy is recovering after he was hit in the face by a bird while riding a roller coaster at an amusement park in New Jersey.
