AP - Cries for help inside a Trenton, N.J., home turned out to be for the birds. Neighbors called police Wednesday morning after hearing a woman's persistent cry of "Help me! Help me!" coming from a house. Officers arrived and when no one answered the door, they kicked it in to make a rescue.
Team dumps logo near buttocks after 70-0 loss
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AP - The Idaho Vandals football team is dumping the letter "I" from the buttocks region of players' new pants following a season-opening 70-0 loss to the Arizona Wildcats.
W.Va. man accused of drunk driving on a tractor
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AP - A Charleston man faces drunken driving charges after police spotted him riding a farm tractor on a highway without lights or proper warning signs. Kanawha County sheriff's deputies arrested 22-year-old Joshua David Postalwait early Friday morning.
Hey! You have a snake hanging from your car!
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AP - Think rush hour is bad enough? What if a three-foot python were part of the drive home? The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Friday that biochemical engineer Marika Suominen-Yeh got the surprise of her life last week when a motorist flagged her down after seeing a snake drop from beneath her minivan.
Ancient bronze mirrors stolen from museum
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Reuters - A bronze mirror that is more than 1,600
years old was stolen from a museum in Dunhuang in northwest
China's Gansu Province, the Xinhua news agency said Wednesday,
citing a museum curator.
Police hunt high-speed skateboard outlaw
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Reuters - Police are trying to track down a man
filmed riding a skateboard down a steep stretch of south German
motorway at 100 km an hour (62 mph), far above the speed limit.
Ex-boxing champ shot dead in smoking dispute
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Reuters - Former British heavyweight boxing
champion James Oyebola was shot in the neck in a nightclub
after asking a group of men to stop smoking, a court heard
Tuesday. Prosecutor Jeremy Donne told the Old Bailey that the
boxer died after the "senseless" shooting at the Chateau 6 club
in Fulham, west London, in July 2007.
Reuters - A British woman plans to make a
parachute jump over Mount Everest hoping to become the first
woman ever to skydive over the world's highest peak, organizers
said Sunday.
Reuters - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was feted
by Russian media on Sunday for saving a television crew from an
attack by a Siberian tiger in the wilds of the Far East.
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