Hedgehog Alert! Prickly Pets can Carry SalmonellaJanuary 31st, 2013By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Add those cute little hedgehogs to the list of pets that can make you sick. In the last year, 20 people were infected by a rare but dangerous form of salmonella bacteria, and one person... |
Seventh Grade at One Mass. School Has 16 Sets of Twins, Set of Triplets
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January 31st, 2013 PEMBROKE, Mass. (CNN) -- At one Massachusetts school, you may think you're seeing double, even triple, but could sixteen sets of twins and a... |
Subway Footlong Sandwich Really 11 Inches?
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January 17th, 2013 By MAE ANDERSON, The Associated Press NEW YORK - (AP) -- What's in an inch? Apparently, enough missing meat, cheese and tomatoes to cause an... |
Hasbro Aims to Jazz Up Monopoly with New Token
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January 10th, 2013 By MAE ANDERSON, AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- The gig is almost up for one of the eight Monopoly tokens. But which will it be? Iron?... |
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Police in NY Seek Owners of 30K Pieces of BlingJanuary 9th, 2013(AP Photo/The Post-Star, Derek Pruitt) By MICHAEL HILL, Associated Press For five years, someone prowled rural counties in upstate New York, pilfering pearl necklaces, gold chains, bracelets, coins, silverware and other valuables from an untold... |
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Mass. Couple’s Wedding Day is also Town’s ZIP CodeJanuary 9th, 2013AMESBURY, Mass. (AP) -- Couples often hold weddings on significant dates, but a Massachusetts couple has come up with a new way of remembering their ceremony. Cheryl Bennett and Steven DeLong, longtime residents of Amesbury, are getting... |
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CAUGHT ON TAPE: Deer Makes Smashing Entrance into Ohio School
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Wedding Aboard Hot Air Balloon Turns Terrifying when Balloon Crashes
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NYC iPhone Owner Tricks Thief using Dating AppJanuary 5th, 2013NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City musician used a combination of technology, seduction, brute force and a bribe to reclaim his missing iPhone from a confused crook. Jazz trombonist Nadav Nirenberg tells the New York Post that he left his... |
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Library of Congress has Amassed 170 Billion TweetsJanuary 4th, 2013twitter By BRETT ZONGKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Library of Congress says it's amassed about 170 billion tweets since it began collecting an archive of all Twitter messages in 2010. Twitter is donating its archive to the... |
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Utah School Stops Musical with Elvis Songs as RacyJanuary 3rd, 2013WEST JORDAN, Utah (AP) -- A Utah school district has cancelled a high school play that uses Elvis Presley's music after a complaint about a sexually suggestive song. Jordan School District officials in suburban Salt Lake City announced plans... |
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US Sperm Donor Fights Request to Pay Child SupportJanuary 2nd, 2013TOPEKA, Kansas (AP) -- A sperm donor in the U.S. is fighting an effort to force him to pay child support for a child conceived through artificial insemination by a lesbian couple. William Marotta told The Topeka Capital-Journal newspaper he's... |
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Barred Owl Survives Eight Mile Ride Stuck in Truck GrillDecember 19th, 2012(WGGB) – A barred owl is now free after taking a early morning ride stuck in the grill of a Vermont man's truck, In a statement, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department biologist David Sausville says that just after 5:00 a.m. Tuesday, December 11,... |
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N.J. Girl Pushes to Make Easy-Bake Oven for Girls and BoysDecember 13th, 2012PROVIDENCE, R.I. (ABC/AP) -- Some well-known male chefs are getting behind a New Jersey girl's call for Hasbro to make a gender-neutral Easy-Bake Oven. Chefs including Manuel Trevino of TV's "Top Chef" and Michael Lomonaco of Porterhouse New... |
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Judge Dismisses Part of Sex Suit against Mass. CollegeDecember 6th, 2012BOSTON (AP) -- A Massachusetts judge has granted a partial victory to a Roman Catholic college sued by an ex-student who said administrators didn't help her enough when she complained that her roommate was having too much sex. Lindsay... |
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