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  • "Weed for Sale!"
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  • He wanted to prove he could swim the Detroit River from Canada to the U.S.
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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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  • State police are looking for a landscaper who gave a western Pennsylvania man a sucker bite on his neck after luring the victim into his truck with the promise of a $20 grass-cutting job.
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  • Police say a suspect's phone call from a convenience store telephone helped them to charge him with stealing $142 worth of change from the business.
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  • Police say a western prostitution suspect asked an undercover officer to sing "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" with her before other police swooped in to arrest her.
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  • Authorities say a burglar's decision to knock back a couple of beers during a break-in at an upstate New York home led to his arrest.
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  • It's anything but a clean getaway.
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  • Authorities in Eastern Oregon say a fleeing man tried to use a backstroke to get across the Columbia River but, exhausted, said he couldn't swim and pleaded with officers to retrieve him. They did.
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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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  • A Washington woman whose car was stolen from her apartment complex saw the stolen SUV hours later - in the drive-thru of the McDonald's restaurant where she works.
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  • Double jeopardy is prohibited by law.
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  • There really weren't a lot of unhappy customers.
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  • It's one tough cash machine.
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  • Police say a western Pennsylvania man tried to blame his drunken driving on his grandmother. The only problem is, she wasn't there.
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  • Police say they've got the $3,200 engagement ring a New Hampshire allegedly swallowed during an attempted jewelry store theft.
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  • Police have cited a 42-year-old Pennsylvania woman for disorderly conduct after she called 911 requesting a divorce and police assistance to make her husband leave.
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  • A Montana man whose 12-year-old golden retriever ate five $100 bills hopes to be reimbursed by the federal government.
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  • A northern Indiana man who called 911 and told dispatchers he was driving drunk and needed to be taken off the road got his wish when a sheriff's deputy arrived.
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  • Authorities in Louisiana say they tracked a man accused of stealing drugs from a pharmacy because he left behind a pickax he used to break in - and forgot to remove the price tag.
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  • Police in central Pennsylvania allege that a man fabricated a story about being the victim of a hit-and-run last month because he wanted a ride home.
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  • Like anywhere, dozing off behind the wheel in Austria can be deadly. But for one teen-ager it will likely result in a charge of attempted car theft.
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  • A Texas woman wanted to make sheriff's deputies the butt of a joke, but she picked the wrong audience when she called 911 to have cigarettes delivered to her home.
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  • Police in the Cayman Islands say a woman drove off an intruder by biting him. It cost her a tooth, though.
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  • A woman has returned a pair of $2,000 eyeglasses she stole from a Pittsburgh-area shop after she made a spectacle of herself when surveillance video of the heist was broadcast on the local TV news.
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  • Authorities in Ohio say a pocket-dialing prowler got himself arrested after his cellphone turned informant. Twice.
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  • It's a not-so-happy-birthday present for one California man.
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  • Authorities say they discovered a budding marijuana-growing operation after residents of a Lincoln house called police to report the theft of marijuana pipes.
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  • Police say a western Pennsylvania man stopped at a bar and had a beer minutes after he broke out of a police station holding cell after his arrest on an assault charge.
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  • Police in one Pittsburgh suburb have come up with a new twist on an old adage: Where there's smoke ... there's marijuana.
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  • Authorities in Northern California say a man arrested in nothing but a trench coat and socks after a break-in told investigators he had been using the homeowner's sauna.
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  • Shoplifters beware -- your Facebook friends might be watching.
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  • Bust me -- please.
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  • It's no way to get a date.
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  • Buying a birthday present for your mom maybe a nice sentiment.
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  • The guard gator's in the zoo and the suspect is in the slammer.
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  • Authorities say a Florida Panhandle man has been arrested after he tried to rob a convenience store with a cattle prod but was thwarted by a clerk with a gun.
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  • A Florida man accused of riding his horse while intoxicated during a police chase has changed his plea and was sentenced to time served.
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  • Officials say a suspected robber of a suburban Detroit restaurant who apparently returned months later to get some food is under arrest after being recognized by employees.
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  • It's a mouthful -- a mouthful of heroin.
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  • Even at age 79, a Houston-area man is able to chop a crook down to size.
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  • How do you tell the cartel you lost their drug money?
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  • It's not a particularly good place to hide your stash -- the back of a deputy's patrol car.
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  • Vaughn Godwin had something for mom -- and it wasn't a Christmas present.
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  • It's never a good time for a drunken driver to smash into a bakery, but it's an even bigger problem when it happens just before Thanksgiving.
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  • It's never a good time for a drunken driver to smash into a bakery, but it's an even bigger problem when it happens just before Thanksgiving.
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  • A Rhode Island man police say used counterfeit $100 bills to make purchases at a Target store made a critical mistake.
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  • Police in South Africa say they've arrested a 25-year-old man who swallowed 220 polished diamonds in an attempt to smuggle them out of the country.
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  • Police got a leg-up -- on a man they charge was hiding drugs in his artificial leg.
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  • If you're a would-be bandit -- you might want to steer clear of a Kung Fu school.
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