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<title>Ferris wheel ride world record broken in Chicago</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 12:33:31 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Milwaukee backs off bra ban for historic bar</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 15:01:36 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Birth of anteater has Connecticut zoo staff puzzled</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 14:45:18 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Milwaukee backs off bra ban for historic bar</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 15:01:36 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Alaska man runs onto frozen lake to avoid jail</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 11:37:13 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Washington state woman spots stolen car in drive-thru</title>
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<title>Coin tossing breaks tie in Philippine mayoral race</title>
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<title>Fleeing Oregon man pleads to be pulled from Columbia</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 19:20:20 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Deer smashes Pa. bus windshield, takes short ride</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A deer took a ride on a western Pennsylvania bus with another passenger on board]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 22:45:58 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Connecticut chef planning to feast on cicadas</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 13:16:43 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Diaper change leads to police being called</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 22:52:52 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>NYPD officer tries to help cat in tree, gets stuck</title>
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<description><![CDATA[New York police officer who went after a cat stuck in a tree needed a little help getting back down to the ground]]></description>
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<title>South Africa: Man charges elephant</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Field guide who was filmed while charging on foot toward an elephant has been dismissed.]]></description>
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<title>Ohio State awaits bloom of stinky corpse flower</title>
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<title>Man charged in overnight feast at Kentucky supermarket</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Authorities in Kentucky have charged a man who officers say had an overnight feast in a closed supermarket outside Louisville.]]></description>
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<title>2 naked women, children tie up Charlotte traffic</title>
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<title>Durango, Colo., area couple gives up catwalk fight</title>
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<title>Oregon smokejumpers skydive into illegal pot garden</title>
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<title>Mass. panel: No profanity on rapper's headstone</title>
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