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6th January
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AP - It's official. No one else has made a bigger crab cake.
AP - A Boulder woman facing a $1,000 fine for dyeing her poodle pink has hired a lawyer to fight the charge in court.
A 'Client #9' T-shirt is seen in an undated handout photo. Who really is 'Client 9'? The New York Times says it's the code name for New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer in court papers that link him to a prostitution ring, but now anyone can be 'Client 9' with T-shirts available online just a day after the scandal broke. (CafePress/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - Who really is "Client 9?"
A woman stands among the bookshelves in the main reading room of The New York Public Library, December 14, 2004. (Mike Segar/Reuters)Reuters - A Finnish library-goer apparently thought 'better late than never' and quietly returned a book on loan for more than 100 years to a library in Vantaa, in southern Finland.
A 1963 T-back Corvette and 1966 Corvette sit on display in the parking lot of the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky. (John Sommers II/Reuters)Reuters - Chicken, cornhole and Corvettes. An effort to honor General Motors' iconic Corvette as the official sports car of Kentucky has stalled in the state's legislature along with efforts to honor other famous exports.
Someone with a little knowledge of musical golden oldies is jangling nerves in Delaware
A firefighter performed mouth-to-snout resuscitation and revived a small dog he found lifeless
A firefighter performed mouth-to-snout resuscitation and revived a small dog he found lifeless in a burning mobile home.
A firefighter performed mouth-to-snout resuscitation and revived a small dog he found lifeless in a burning mobile home.
Someone with a little knowledge of musical golden oldies is jangling nerves in Delaware.
AP - Someone with a little knowledge of musical golden oldies is jangling nerves in Delaware.
Two Japanese sisters are accused of stashing billions of yen in cardboard boxes, in order to avoid paying inheritance tax.
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A community activist thinks a few couch potatoes, strategically placed on sidewalk benches in an upscale shopping district, will keep transients on their feet and on the move.
Authorities with Guinness World Records have officially certified a world record crab cake that was developed with the help of ...
No, that's not a hallucination. That pear tree is wearing a sweater.Wrapped around the trunk is a colorful, crazy-quilt skin made up of panels of yarn knitted individually by residents and visitors alike. Good-luck charms cling to the yarn.
An American schoolboy has been dubbed the 'Magneto Man' after continuously making computers crash. Image
Bench-sitters are being sought to hog benches in a bid to rid a city of homeless people.
Hundreds of dogs, many dressed as babies or clowns, were taken to celebrate mass to stop them falling ill. Image
AP - Washington lawmakers have approved a pilot program that will allow beer and wine tasting in 30 grocery stores statewide in an effort to market local products.
EAST ST. LOUIS -- First it was copper, and now manhole covers are the target of thieves. "Like we have copper and aluminum thieves, we have iron and metal thieves. People are stealing the manholes to sell them for scrap iron to dealers," City Manager Robert Betts said.


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