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6th January
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AP - Complaints from neighbors prompted Bonham police to remove 209 cats and three dogs from a home apparently overrun by the animals. The SPCA helped take custody of the animals Friday.
AP - A collection agency tried to collect a $16.96 debt with an letter that addressed its recipient with a four-letter word for excrement. "Dear S---," began the letter attempting to collect from an old record club membership. The word was spelled out in the letter, which arrived in an envelope addressed to "S--- Face."
AP - If you're looking to sell high-grade marijuana, Craigslist may not be the place to do it. A man learned that the hard way when the "buyer" who contacted him turned out to be an undercover officer, Stamford police said.
Dentists analyze a dental digital X-ray of an American patient at the Rio Dental clinic in the border city of Ciudad Juarez January 24, 2008. REUTERS/Tomas BravoReuters - It was fear of the hefty bill as much as fear of the drill that kept American musician Don Clay away from U.S. dental clinics for 30 years.
When it comes to lounging lizards, surely none could be more laid back than those found at this reptilian heaven.  
Advice to burglars: if you must eat on the job, try to avoid spitting out chunks of DNA-covered salami.  
A vicar has put his faith in his local paper to find a dream wife. Where's your God now, preacher man?  
It's the earliest accurate map of Britain dating back to around 1360 - but is it just us who think it looks a bit like... um... you know...  
Okay, let's go over this one more time: hydrogen peroxide is not suitable substance for rectal cleansing.  
The Vince Lombardi Trophy sits between the helmets of the New York Giants and the New England Patriots at a news conference in Phoenix February 1, 2008. REUTERS/Rick WilkingReuters - When the New England Patriots and New York Giants face off in Sunday's Super Bowl American football championship, the mayors of their home towns will have an edible wager on the line.
Sylvester Stallone poses during a photocall to promote the movie 'Rambo' in Madrid January 28, 2008. Police in Myanmar have given DVD hawkers strict orders not to stock the new Rambo movie, which features the Vietnam War veteran taking on the former Burma's ruling military junta, a Yangon resident told Reuters on Friday. (Susana Vera/Reuters)Reuters - Police in Myanmar have given DVD hawkers strict orders not to stock the new Rambo movie, which features the Vietnam War veteran taking on the former Burma's ruling military junta, a Yangon resident told Reuters on Friday.
Reuters - A chain of retail stores in Britain has withdrawn the sale of beds named Lolita and designed for six-year-old girls after furious parents pointed out that the name was synonymous with sexually active pre-teens.
Reuters - A German medical student got some unexpected practical experience at the zoo when she gave the kiss of life to a baby tiger choking on a piece of meat, the zoo director said Friday.
File photo shows Pamela Anderson after Russia's MTV Movie Awards in central Moscow April 19, 2007. Anderson will take to the stage in one of France's most famous nude revues this month, when she performs for two nights at the Crazy Horse in Paris. (Denis Sinyakov/Reuters)Reuters - Former "Baywatch" star and Playboy model Pamela Anderson takes to the stage in one of France's most famous nude revues this month, when she performs for two nights at the Crazy Horse in Paris.
A proposal to make walking the official exercise of Maryland could get the boot -- again
Having a tornado demolish her home was bad enough. But weeks later when Ann Beam received a $2,000 cable bill for destroyed equipment, she was floored
The picture of a bank robbery suspect isn't the work of a police sketch artist.
For lots of football fans tailgating is more than half the fun -- it's all the fun.
People, waist deep in water, retrieve some of their belongings after a field of camping tents is flooded on the first day of the Glastonbury music festival in Somerset on June 24, 2005. REUTERS/Eddie KeoghReuters - Music fans attending this year's Glastonbury festival will be told to use biodegradable tent pegs in an effort to protect grazing cattle.
A hole-in-one is rare on the golf course, but what are the odds of a blind golfer sinking one?


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