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Wash. inmate kills entangled deer at work farm
WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) -- The Washington State Penitentiary says an inmate on a work crew killed and butchered a deer that was entangled in netting at the prison's pheasant farm near Walla Walla....
Man crosses English Channel with helium balloons
LONDON (AP) -- In a goofy yet mesmerizing stunt, an American adventurer crossed the English Channel on Friday carried by a bundle of helium balloons, ending a quiet and serene flight by touching down in a French cabbage patch....
Nigeria: President Goodluck's wife wins motorcycle
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- It appears as though Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan's luck might have rubbed off on his wife....
LeBron leaving Ohio _ not the Cavalier, the jaguar
AKRON, Ohio (AP) -- A LeBron is leaving northeast Ohio, but it's a cat, not a Cavalier....
Sweet! Mainers make 'rocket car' with Mentos, soda
BUCKFIELD, Maine (AP) -- The guys from Maine who became online celebrities by creating geysers from Mentos candies and Diet Coke say they have harnessed that power to create a "rocket car."...
Alaska police stop bank robbery suspect on bike
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- A man robbed an Anchorage bank and escaped on a bicycle but didn't get far, police said Thursday....
Road construction sign woos Wisconsin motorists
STEVENS POINT, Wis. (AP) -- A digital construction sign along a central Wisconsin interstate has been flashing a rock-inspired passionate message to passing motorists....
Horde of frogs keeps Greek highway traffic slow
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) -- Thousands of frogs are still slowing traffic on a busy Greek highway, a day after a horde of them forced officials to close the road altogether....
Loud muffler helps WA man retrieve stolen truck
LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) -- You can hear Alex Hansen's truck coming. Or going, which was the case when thieves drove it away from his Longview, Wash., home....
Police in Alaska puzzled by 26 headless chickens
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) -- Alaska State Troopers are puzzled by a gruesome discovery in the city of North Pole: 26 headless chickens carefully arranged at a coop....
'Amityville Horror' home for sale in NY for $1.15M
AMITYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) -- The house made famous in the 1979 film "The Amityville Horror" is up for sale in New York - ghosts not included....
Piles of undelivered mail found in Mich. shed
DETROIT (AP) -- Thousands of pieces of undelivered mail and ads from the early 1990s have been found in a shed in Michigan, and a former postal worker is now charged with stealing mail....
Water gun fight prompts hazmat case, evacuations
WOONSOCKET, R.I. (AP) -- What started out as an innocent squirt gun fight between children turned into a potentially dangerous situation for a Woonsocket neighborhood. Firefighters on Sunday responded to reports of a strong smell of ammonia in the basement of a Grove Street home. Investigators told WPRI-TV they found a smoking 7-gallon barrel of sodium hydroxide, prompting a hazardous materials team response and the evacuation of three homes....
Man bites man in fight over dogs, NY officials say
NEW CITY, N.Y. (AP) -- It wasn't quite man-bites-dog, but there were men and there were dogs and there was biting. A sheriff's office said Monday that one man bit another during a fight over a couple of dogs at a park in suburban New York City. Rockland County sheriff's Capt. William Barbera said two dog owners got into it Sunday night. One didn't like the way their pets were playing at a dog park in New City, about 30 miles north of New York....
Maryland trooper breaks leg, still makes arrest
FREDERICK, Md. (AP) -- Maryland State Police said a trooper who broke his leg during a foot chase still managed to make the arrest. Trooper First Class Jeremy Tindal stopped a car Sunday evening for allegedly speeding on Interstate 270. Police said that when a 22-year-old passenger acted suspiciously, Tindal ordered him out for a pat-down....
Man allegedly sets blaze because of late dinner
SISSONVILLE, W.Va. (AP) -- Kanawha County authorities said a marital spat over a late dinner has landed a man in jail on an arson charge. Lt. Sean Crosier of the Sheriff's Department said 60-year-old Guy Edward Jones came home Sunday and got angry because his wife, Beverly Jones, didn't have dinner on the table....
Ex-Hooters employee: I was told to drop weight
ROSEVILLE, Mich. (AP) -- Hooters is being served with a lawsuit by a former Detroit-area employee who says she was told to agree to lose weight or lose her job. Cassandra Smith said Hooters violated Michigan law when it placed her on 30-day weight probation earlier this month. She resigned as a result....
'Frequent flyers' outsmart airport officials
ROMULUS, Mich. (AP) -- A Detroit Metropolitan Airport official said some frequent-flyers holed-up inside the McNamara Terminal are ruffling his feathers and admits "the darn birds keep outsmarting us."...
Montana man arrested for 2 DUIs 5 hours apart
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) -- Montana police said a 24-year-old man was arrested twice for drunken driving in the span of five hours. Police said Frank Rees was arrested at about 2:30 a.m. Saturday on suspicion of drunken driving and posted a $500 bond just before 5:30 a.m. About two hours later, Rees was again arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, this time after police reported he hit a parked car....
Guinness finds Minn. man is tallest in US
ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) -- Guinness World Records has recognized a Minnesota man as the tallest man in the United States....