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Homeless Aussie who helped thwart attack charged with theft
SYDNEY (AP) — A homeless Australian man who shot to fame after using a shopping trolley to help police thwart last week’s militant attack in Melbourne has been charged over a series of burglaries. Michael…
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Stranded camel entertains motorists along snowy roadway
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The surprisingly powerful winter storm that swept across Pennsylvania brought some surprising sights with it, including a camel stranded along a snowy roadway. Motorists traveling about 40 miles (64 kilometers) north of…
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Wildlife officials seize mountain lion kitten fed bratwurst
WALSENBURG, Colo. (AP) — Wildlife officials who seized a mountain lion kitten from a southern Colorado home say the feline fell ill after the residents fed it bratwurst. Travis Sauder with Colorado Parks and Wildlife…
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FBI re-creates decoy heads Alcatraz inmates used in escape
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Half a century after a notorious prison escape from Alcatraz Island, the FBI has created replicas of decoy heads that inmates used to distract guards from a plan that still captivates…
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Statue of Liberty’s original torch moved to museum site
Visitors watched as the base and the detached flame of the 3,600-pound torch were trucked slowly and carefully to the museum construction site about 100 yards from the statue. See photos.
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Police capture ‘unruly’ and ‘uncooperative’ runaway pig
PALMYRA, Maine (AP) — Maine State Police say they helped corral a rather “unruly’ pig on the run along Interstate 95. State police say in a Facebook post they were alerted to the “uncooperative” pig…
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Breckenridge, Colorado, removing divisive giant wooden troll
BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. (AP) — The town of Breckenridge in central Colorado is removing an art piece of a troll that has become a tourist attraction but also rankled nearby residents. The Summit Daily News reports…
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Rolling in toilet paper: Sheriff buys 24K extra rolls of TP
GUNTERSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Officials in an Alabama county have a financial mess to wipe up after the sheriff’s department mistakenly ordered 24,000 extra rolls of toilet paper. WAFF-TV reports the Marshall County Sheriff’s Office…
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Tiny Rhode Island polling place saw 1 voter after all
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A polling place that Rhode Island elections officials initially said did not get a single voter during the midterm elections did get one voter after all. Precinct 2807 in Providence has…
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Missing zoo meerkat case solved with 3 charged in Australia
SYDNEY (AP) — It wasn’t grand theft. It was tiny. But the snatching of a baby meerkat from a zoo has not only become a major story in the Australian city of Perth, it has…
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To ‘ketchup’ thief: Police on lookout for McDonald’s brawler who allegedly battered manager over condiment
Police in California are seeking the public’s assistance to find a woman accused of attacking a McDonald’s manager in Santa Ana — allegedly over an insufficient amount of ketchup packets.
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National Grid to use ‘noise cannon’ to scare away crows
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. (AP) — After all else failed, National Grid is bringing in a cannon to scare away the hundreds of crows that have been hanging around an electrical substation in Massachusetts. Don’t worry,…
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Crash sends deer into back of woman’s SUV
HOWELL, N.J. (AP) — Police are praising a woman for avoiding tragedy after a deer crashed through her windshield and landed in the back passenger seat of her SUV. Authorities say the deer darted in…
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Romanian man returns $100,000 found in secondhand cupboard
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A Romanian man was surprised to find 95,000 euros ($107,000) stashed inside a secondhand cupboard he’d bought — and promptly returned the money. Adela Stanici told The Associated Press Tuesday that…
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Runaway elephant returned to upstate New York sanctuary
WESTTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — An elephant that was burned by napalm during the Vietnam War has been returned to an upstate New York animal sanctuary after taking a late-night stroll. State police say they went…
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