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  • A Minnesota mother and her 18-year-old son are accused of stealing nearly $5,000 in frozen gopher feet and selling them for a bounty
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  • Parking is at a premium in San Francisco and that led to the sale of a parking spot for, get this, $82,000
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  • A Philadelphia man has offered a little gator aid -- calling animal control authorities to help rescue a juvenile alligator he found near a sewer grate on his street
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  • A New Jersey house fire is being blamed on a homeowner's battle against bedbugs
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  • Authorities in central Wyoming say they received a 911 call reporting that a woman involved in an exorcism had stopped breathing and had gone into cardiac arrest
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  • A Pennsylvania woman has been charged with stealing money from cards brought to a wedding reception she was attending -- and trying to hide the loot in her bra
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  • A Texas couple has fulfilled a lifelong dream by visiting Maine to watch the state Legislature at work. Seriously
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  • Swedish train driver Martin Akersten poses wearing a skirt
  • Commuters on a train line in northern Stockholm were met with an unusual sight this week: male train drivers and conductors wearing skirts to work
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  • Not even Chewbacca and his light saber get a free pass with airport security before being cleared to travel
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  • In a city that has become renowned for its hip and innovative restaurant scene, a local tourist attraction is offering decidedly different fare: prison food.
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  • A string quartet from The Philadelphia Orchestra made a lengthy flight delay quite enjoyable for a plane full of lucky passengers in China
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  • Melissa Jones almost made it
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  • A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy was suspicious. When he heard two women were spotted near a Lancaster, Calif., intersection, and one of them was holding an alligator, he didn't buy it
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  • Runner surprise baby
  • An aspiring half-marathon runner in Minnesota attributed her unbearable back pain to a two-hour training session. A day later, she was cradling a newborn
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  • A Texas banker is upping the ante to $1 million for whoever solves a tricky problem that's been dogging mathematicians since the 1980s
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  • A New Mexico city commission has agreed to allow a Canadian studio to search an old landfill where old, terrible Atari games are rumored to be buried
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  • A tweak to state laws in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to conform with current EU regulations has caused an unexpected casualty: the longest word in the German language
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  • A Northern California man is facing vandalism charges after authorities say he painted a crosswalk on a street, allegedly telling officials it was needed
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  • A liquor store in Rhode Island was left with a big mess when a man brought his pony in with him
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  • A man who wears thong underwear and a cape while riding his scooter through Wisconsin's capital city may be a strange sight. But police say he isn't breaking any laws
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  • Tiger hairballs
  • It's not unusual for a cat to get a hairball, but a 400-pound tiger needed help from veterinary surgeons in Florida when he couldn't hack up a basketball-size hairball by himself
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  • For decades, people have been getting rid of cockroaches by setting out bait mixed with poison. But in the late 1980s, in an apartment test kitchen in Florida, something went very wrong
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  • For bicyclist Rudi Saldia, you could say a cat is his co-pilot
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  • Three members of a Michigan city council have abstained from voting on a measure that would have prevented them from abstaining on future votes
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  • Anchorage police say a young man who didn't want to return to jail ran out onto the uncertain ice of an Alaska lake to escape officers armed with an arrest warrant
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  • What do you do when two candidates running for mayor in the Philippines get exactly the same number of votes? You get them to toss a coin
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  • Connecticut chef Bun Lai is already known for his Mexican grasshopper dish and his fried rice with meal worms and crickets. But he might soon also be recognized as the cicada chef
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  • Think you've heard of every way possible to quit smoking? Etta Mae Lopez came up with a new one: slap a cop so you'll go to jail, where smoking isn't allowed
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  • Commissioners at a Massachusetts cemetery have said no to profanity on headstones
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  • Those scratch-and-sniff cards the energy company sends to customers to teach them to recognize the artificial smell added to natural gas? Turns out they work pretty well
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  • Gerbil
  • The American Gerbil Society's annual pageant brought dozens of rodents scurrying to New England this weekend for a chance to win "top gerbil"
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  • In sun-deprived Washington state, the promise of nice spring weather prompted a small private school to give students a day off to enjoy the sunshine
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  • It looks like Spider-Man does have sticky fingers
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  • Everyone got stood up at one Southern California high school's prom. The dance itself was a no-show
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  • Beautiful Bulldog
  • If at first you don't succeed, wipe the slobber off and try again. Just ask 4-year-old pup Huckleberry, who's been crowned this year's "Beautiful Bulldog"
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  • A central Kansas woman likely won't remember her first circus for the clowns or performances -- it'll be the tiger in the bathroom
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  • Worlds smallest park in Portland, Oregon
  • The British and the Americans are quarrelling -- albeit with tongues in cheek -- over territory again, this time over who has the world's smallest park
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  • UNC police say people dressed in lobster and banana costumes may be behind a theft at the the Student Union building.
  • UNC Department of Public Safety investigators seeking people in costumes who allegedly took art from Student Union
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  • It's the plane crash that wasn't in Southern California
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  • Flea circus
  • An entire troupe of performing fleas has fallen victim to the freezing temperatures currently gripping Germany
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  • Spring still hasn't really arrived for much of the US, but at least Phil is off the hook
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  • Fifty-two bottles of well-aged whiskey disappeared between his lips, police said, and now it's time for a western Pennsylvania man to settle up
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  • Punxsutawney Phil
  • A shadow of a different kind is hanging over Punxsutawney Phil.
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  • Talk about junk in the trunk
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  • A Washington state lawmaker apologized Monday for asserting in an email last week that bicyclists pollute the air with their heavy breathing
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  • A man charged with disorderly conduct for his loud whistling in downtown Portland has reached a deal with the city -- he can whistle, but he can't linger in one spot
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  • Is Poughkeepsie, N.Y., one of the best places to live in the country, or one of the worst?
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  • Police in Massachusetts say a 10-year-old boy called 911 because he didn't want to go to bed
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  • A shoeshine man has given a Pittsburgh children's hospital a total of more than $200,000 in tips he's collected over the last 30 years
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  • Some of the U.S. luge team's sleds went slip-sliding away down a Pennsylvania road
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