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Woman sues Santa, claiming he fell on top of herCHICAGO -Call it the case of the overserved Santa. Antoinette Basso filed a lawsuit Thursday against a man dressed in a Santa suit who she said stumbled...
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Man allegedly steals ambulance that came to crash WILLOW CREEK, Calif. – A man was arrested for allegedly stealing an ambulance that arrived to help him after a car crash. The California Highway Patrol...
View ArticleClinton, Lavrov push wrong reset button on ties
GENEVA -U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a red “reset button” to symbolise improved ties, but the gift drew smiles as the word “reset” was...
View ArticleBoy wins rights to tropical island in lottery
TAIPEI -A 4-year-old boy has won the use of an uninhabited tropical island, with white sand beaches and clear turquoise waters, in a Taiwan lottery aimed at boosting spending during an economic...
View ArticleBob Dylan’s toilet smell blows in the wind
LOS ANGELES-Bob Dylan has sung about wind many times-winds of change, the “Idiot Wind,” and the winds that hit heavy on the borderline. A family living near the 67-year-old folk and rock icon’s house...
View ArticleClorox offers $5K to wipe out SF ‘toilet torcher’
SAN FRANCISCO-The Clorox Company is offering a $5,000 reward and a year’s supply of toilet cleaning products for tips leading to the arrest of San Francisco’s notorious portable potty pyromaniac. The...
View ArticleNJ scraps plans to ban genital waxing
TRENTON, N.J.-New Jersey is smoothing out differences over a plan to ban bare-it-all bikini waxing. The state on Friday decided to reverse course on the proposal after angry salon owners complained...
View ArticleSC man’s corpse was apparently cut to fit coffin
ALLENDALE, S.C.–James Hines was a giant–a 6-foot-7, 300-pound preacher and funk musician so big that after he died in 2004 a macabre rumor began circulating in this small town that the undertaker had...
View ArticleWoman divorces husband for cleaning too much
BERLIN–A German woman has divorced her husband because she was fed up with him cleaning all the time. German media reported the wife got through 15 years of marriage putting up with the man’s penchant...
View ArticleColorado Springs man coughs up inch-long nail
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.–Prax Sanchez says he doesn’t recall any serious hammer-and-nail mishaps in his past. Yet doctors administering an MRI on the 72-year-old Colorado man last month abruptly stopped...
View ArticleBogus waiter tricks customers at 2 NJ restaurants
HOBOKEN, N.J. -Police say a man posing as a waiter collected $186 in cash from diners at two restaurants in New Jersey and walked out with the money in his pocket. Diners described the bogus waiter as...
View ArticleMiss. woman gets shot in head, but makes tea
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -A Mississippi woman who was shot in the head not only survived but made herself tea and offered an astonished deputy something to drink, authorities said Friday. Tammy Sexton, 47,...
View ArticleSchool: Ohio teacher took students to strip club
HAMILTON, Ohio–A school spokesman said a southwest Ohio teacher has resigned after acknowledging she accompanied four female students to a male strip club. Butler Tech school district spokesman Bill...
View ArticleMom-to-be hit by car while fleeing bear is OK
DENVER – A pregnant woman who was fleeing a bear when she was struck by a slow-moving car said she would honor the euthanized animal by giving her baby the middle name “Bear.”Ashley Swendsen, 26, said...
View ArticleCouple arrested for sex on lawn at Windsor Castle
LONDON – Queen Elizabeth II was at home at Windsor Castle, the sentries who guard her were on duty, and the large park surrounding the magnificent building was full of tourists on a Sunday afternoon....
View ArticleCowboy ticketed for ‘riding under the influence’
ARVADA, Colo. – A man in a cowboy hat who rode a horse through a Denver suburb has been cited for riding an animal under the influence. Police said Brian Drone was given a $25 traffic violation ticket...
View ArticleOuthouses cushion small plane crash in Wash state
PUYALLUP, Wash. – A small airplane dropping from the sky after its engine failed wound up on a cushioning bunch of portable toilets — and the pilot was able to walk away apparently unhurt. Gary Mayor...
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