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  • Billboards promoting Detroit's upcoming general election offered up some erroneous information about when to go to the polls
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  • High tech trash cans
  • Officials demanded Monday that an advertising firm stop using a network of high-tech trash cans to track people walking through London's financial district
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  • A new poll shows that most New Yorkers watching Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer in political races dominated by sex scandals want to forget about them.
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  • A judge in Tennessee changed a 7-month-old boy's name to Martin from Messiah, saying the religious name was earned by one person and "that one person is Jesus Christ"
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  • A black bear in search of a late-night snack broke into an Idaho house and licked leftover Chinese food from a cast iron pan on the stove
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  • A western Michigan family welcomed their 12th child. And, shocker, it's a boy -- just like the other 11
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  • Authorities say a man driving a truck with police lights on top made a crucial misstep during a bogus police stop in northern New Mexico
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  • A Seattle man who came across a giant dead fish as he waterskied on Lake Washington says he first thought it might be a shark
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  • A Florida police officer saved nearly 100 baby sea turtles when he gathered the newly hatched creatures from a hotel parking lot and street and released them into the Gulf of Mexico
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  • A Mexican family says that a van bought at a U.S. government auction came with an unwanted extra: an undiscovered package of cocaine beneath the dashboard
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  • A Virginia man who caught a fish known as "Frankenfish" has set a world record
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  • A Virginia man who caught a fish known as "Frankenfish" has set a world record
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  • The burly officer watching over the bike racks at a Boston-area transportation hub is a real stiff
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  • A Georgia man who lost his wallet while waterskiing in North Carolina now has it back -- 24 years later
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  • A hungry bear helped himself to a takeout dinner at a German restaurant in Colorado Springs
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  • A cleaning crew has found an unexpected mess after arriving at Sea Dog Brew Pub on Nantucket: a 5-foot-long shark blocking the door
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  • A southern Illinois businessman has paid off part of a court-ordered legal settlement with nearly four tons of quarters packed into dozens of bags
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  • July is full-fledged baby season for one Utah family
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  • A 9-year-old boy digging for worms in northern Arizona found a gun buried near his home
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  • If finding a high school ring doesn't seem like a big deal consider this: Until a few days ago, the last time Dick Diedrich saw his ring he was living in suburban Chicago with his parents and Harry Truman was in the White House
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  • Firefighters arrived at a Utah home to put out a blaze started by a kitchen range and discovered more than flames -- 28 snakes, six of them deadly
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  • The Facebook page on Sunday showed photos of the quirky reptile and imaginary conversations between the two heads
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  • A Massachusetts couple has won $1 million on a scratch-off lottery ticket they dug out of the trash after inadvertently throwing it away
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  • A 54-year-old fisherman is safe after his 14-foot boat capsized as he was landing a 230-pound tuna in the ocean off Hawaii
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  • Authorities say a shirtless man who allegedly stole a transit bus from a San Francisco terminal drove it 100 miles before being arrested
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  • A Florida woman has been banned from swimming in her community's pool because she wants to wear a mermaid tail
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  • Police say a man hoping to dodge the $15 entrance fee at the San Francisco Zoo led security officers on a wild chase as he dashed through animal exhibits
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  • Six-hundred people dressed in colored ponchos have aced their attempt to set a record for the largest human playing card
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  • The mayor of Wisconsin's capital city is proposing it adopt its first official motto: 77 square miles surrounded by reality
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  • A pregnant New Mexico woman has survived a bolt from the blue to give birth to a bouncing baby girl
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  • A southern Minnesota college student's spoof video of an apparently tumorous rabbit that he dubbed "Frankenstein" has attracted hundreds of thousands of Internet viewers
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  • Boy mayor
  • Supporters of the mayor in the tiny tourist town of Dorset can stuff the ballot box all they want as he seeks re-election. The mayor -- a short guy -- is known for his fondness of ice cream and fishing. And he's got the county's top law enforcement official in his pocket
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  • Matt "BB Gun" Krause won his first-ever International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship on Saturday, returning the crown to a family that has dominated the annual competition in southwestern Michigan for four decades.
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  • It's not the kind of sign you usually see at a park: ""Our deer don't smoke in your backyard. Please don't smoke in theirs"
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  • Four red-necked wallabies made a break for freedom after a gate was left open on the Australia exhibit at a Des Moines zoo
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  • South Florida firefighters came to the rescue of a dog that traveled 5 miles while trapped under the hood of a car
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  • A Northern California roller coaster appears to have been a little too much fun
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  • Three people who ordered food at a Taco Bell drive-thru in western Michigan got something more valuable: $3,600 in cash
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  • The retirement of a North Texas teacher means he's concluding a 40-year streak of wearing the same 1970s-era polyester shirt and brown sweater vest for his school photograph.
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  • It didn't take the CSI team to crack this case -- just the redial button
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  • Sounds like a 1950s horror flick -- slime rising from the streets of Brooklyn
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  • The $500 tip came at just the right time for Beth Foster
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  • Flabby keyboard jockeys, stringy coders, and out-of-shape hackers: The British military wants you
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  • A suburban New York mother of three has been arraigned on charges she grew thousands of marijuana plants worth millions of dollars
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  • Officials have finally identified the culprit behind a 20-hour Internet and cellphone outage last week in northern New Mexico --an eager beaver
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  • Authorities say an exploding refrigerator led them to a marijuana-growing operation in San Diego.
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  • Two-headed turtle
  • A two-headed turtle has hatched at the San Antonio Zoo and officials have named her Thelma and Louise
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  • A Connecticut couple has named its baby with help from customers at a Starbucks coffee shop
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  • A day before Colorado marks Bike to Work Day, some commuters in Boulder got their feet wet heading to work by inner tube
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  • An Iowa man's online classified ad offering an oak coffin for sale neglected to mention the full skeleton inside, so police interrupted the deal and seized the bones
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