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23rd November
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Raise your hand if you were sure the Bigfoot mystery was solved by two guys in Georgia
Raise your hand if you were sure the Bigfoot mystery was solved by two guys in Georgia
The body of deceased Angel Pantoja Medina stands erect and leans against a wall by his coffin during his own wake in his mother's home in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, Aug. 18, 2008.  The last wish of Medina, 24, who was found dead on Aug. 15, 2008 underneath a bridge in the capital, was to be standing at his own wake, and was embalmed for the occasion. (AP Photo/Juan Alicea Marcado, El Nuevo Dia)AP - A Puerto Rican man has been granted his wish to remain standing — even in death. A funeral home used a special embalming treatment to keep the corpse of 24-year-old Angel Pantoja Medina standing upright for his three-day wake.
School officials in San Luis, Ariz., are investigating a busing mix-up that ended with a 6-year-old boy wandering alone in Mexico. Gadsden Elementary School District board President Luis Marquez says that if any failure is found in the school transportation...
AP - School officials in San Luis, Ariz., are investigating a busing mix-up that ended with a 6-year-old boy wandering alone in Mexico.
Maudie White Hopkins, who grew up during the Depression in the hardscrabble Ozarks and married a Confederate army veteran 67 years her senior, has died. She was 93.
An 85-year-old woman boldly went for her gun and busted a would-be burglar inside her home, then forced him to call police while she kept him in her sights, police said.
An Ohio high school student who says he has been taking practice tests since sixth grade has received perfect scores on both the SAT and ACT college entrance exams. Ray Wang had a perfect 2,400 on the SAT earlier this year. Now Wang has learned that he scored...
A New York policeman who body-slammed an unarmed woman onto a tile floor, breaking her jaw, has been indicted on a civil rights charge. Authorities say Yonkers Officer Wayne Simoes' takedown of Irma Marquez on March 3, which was caught on video, amounted to...
AP - A man accused of trying to extort $500 from a Pizza Hut in Elko was foiled by his own cell phone camera. Police said a former employee of the restaurant allegedly called the manager on Friday and told him he had five Pizza Hut signs that are used on the roofs of vehicles and wouldn't return them unless he was paid $500.
Michigan authorities say a shoplifting suspect died after being crushed in a trash compactor where she was hiding. The Eaton County sheriff's department said two women fled a Lansing-area TJ Maxx discount store after spraying a security guard with Mace. A...
AP - This couple won't have to argue about how to spend their lottery winnings. That's because the Mount Horeb husband and wife each won their own $350,000 jackpots in this weekend's SuperCash state lottery.
AP - A man who contends he got a 9-foot tapeworm after eating undercooked fish has sued a Chicago restaurant. In the lawsuit filed Monday, Anthony Franz said he ordered salmon salad for lunch from Shaw's Crab House in 2006 and fell violently ill. He later passed the giant parasite, which a pathologist determined came from undercooked fish, such as salmon.
AP - Make that three babies — count 'em, three — to go. Babies in a hurry made for a memorable Monday morning for firefighters in and around Rochester who were summoned three times to deliver infants in cars.
AP - A Michigan State Police trooper fatally shot a nearly 7-foot long Burmese python that slithered onto a road and was spotted lunging at a passing pickup truck.
A man who contends he got a 9-foot tapeworm after eating undercooked fish has sued a Chicago restaurant.
An 85-year-old woman boldly went for her gun and busted a would-be burglar inside her home, then forced him to call police while ...
Arava the disabled turtle is using her new set of wheels to get around in more ways than one. Officials at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo say the 10-year-old spurred tortoise has begun mating since being fitted with a custom skateboard to overcome paralysis of...
A man who contends he got a 9-foot tapeworm after eating undercooked fish has sued a Chicago restaurant
A group of children rocking out to kiddie tracks at a kindergarten disco party were told to turn down the tunes or face a shut down of their party by noise control officials who raided the soiree


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