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Man accused of offering bribe with sandwich
Iowa City police said a man who was driving drunk tried to bribe a police officer -- with a sandwich.
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Man told to get a job accused of chair attack
A man was arrested after he allegedly responded to someone telling him to get a job by picking up a folding chair and striking another man with it three times.
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Suspected car burglar gets a dirty dumping
A 22-year-old suspected truck burglar made a dirty mistake after he tried to hide inside a portable toilet.
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Japanese police
fooled by life-sized doll
Police are trying to determine whether they were the victim of a hoax after the body they thought they found at a seaside resort was actually a life-sized doll.
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Woman, 86, labors through the holiday
Millions of Americans had Labor Day off, but not Lucy Dumas. The 86-year-old Fargo woman did what she's always done: work. Dumas has been earning an income for more than 70 years.
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Honest ad for nanny:
My kids are a pain
It was an unusually honest ad for a live-in nanny, a 1,000-word tome beginning, "My kids are a pain." But it worked, attracting a brave soul who's never been a nanny before.
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Rat meat in demand
as inflation bites
The price of rat meat has quadrupled in Cambodia this year as inflation has put other meat beyond the reach of poor people, officials said.
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Don't take ‘holy'
water onto pope plane
The Vatican has warned journalists who will travel with Pope Benedict to Lourdes next month not to put the revered water from the shrine in their hand luggage on the papal plane or it may be confiscated.
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Disposable diaper breaks fall, saves child's life
A disposable diaper has saved the life of an 18-month-old boy, breaking his fall from a third-floor apartment window, officials said on Thursday.
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Charge dismissed in case of dog registered to vote
A judge has decided that a suburban Seattle woman who registered her Australian shepherd-terrier mix to vote has spent enough time in the legal doghouse.
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Cat survives being walled in under bath for 7 weeks
A four-year-old cat in Germany called Bonny has survived after being walled in beneath a bathtub for seven weeks, its owner said.
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Feisty puppy scares off 3 bears in NJ back yard
If only Goldilocks had a cockapoo. A 15-pound cocker spaniel-poodle mix named Pawlee scared off a mother bear and her two cubs on Sunday morning after they strayed into his owners' back yard.
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Feisty puppy scares off 3 bears in NJ back yard
If only Goldilocks had a cockapoo. A 15-pound cocker spaniel-poodle mix named Pawlee scared off a mother bear and her two cubs on Sunday morning after they strayed into his owners' back yard.
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No buyers for man's
million-mile Chevy -- yet
A 1991 Chevrolet Silverado that has traveled more than 1 million miles is still on the market, its owner says, though it failed to fetch the premium price that he had hoped for.
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Worker temporarily
gets 6-figure bonus
Oklahoma officials say a typo resulted in a state employee receiving a bonus of $850,000 -- but it was only temporary.
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Italian priest organizes beauty contest for nuns
An Italian priest and theologian said on Sunday he is organizing an online beauty pageant for nuns to give them more visibility within the Catholic Church and to fight the stereotype that they are all old and dour.
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Fame finds 4-eared
feline thanks to Internet
 Downers Grove, Ill. - The owners of Yoda -- a cat with four ears -- could use a couple extra hands to answer their telephones.
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Woman cuffed, booked
for not paying library fines
A Wisconsin woman has been arrested and booked for failing to pay her library fines. Twenty-year-old Heidi Dalibor told the News Graphic in Cedarburg that she ignored the library's calls and letters as well as a notice to appear in court.
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Woman cuffed, booked
for not paying library fines
A Wisconsin woman has been arrested and booked for failing to pay her library fines. Twenty-year-old Heidi Dalibor told the News Graphic in Cedarburg that she ignored the library's calls and letters as well as a notice to appear in court.
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Man nabbed just 12 hrs after release from jail
A 22-year-old man was back behind bars about 12 hours after he was released from jail, accused of stealing a car and beer and leading police on a high-speed chase.
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