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Truck rams Concorde, knocks off its nose in NYC
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An embarrassed museum official says a two-week nose job should reverse the damage a Concorde supersonic jet suffered when a truck rammed it.
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Wash. judge tells verbose lawyer to make it snappy
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A federal judge in Tacoma has told a lawyer he needs to make it snappy.
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Man out-spits father, claims pit-spitting title
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Brian "Young Gun" Krause has out-spit his father to claim his seventh championship at the International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship.
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Wis. stun gun thief who posted video gets prison
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A Wisconsin man who posted a video online showing him and his father shocking each other with a stolen stun gun has been sent to prison.
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Man rips off wax Hitler’s head
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A man tore the head off a controversial Adolf Hitler wax figure at Madame Tussauds’ new branch in Berlin on its opening day Saturday, officials said.
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Man accused of faking heart attacks to avoid bills
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A 52-year-old Milwaukee-area man has been accused of faking heart attacks to avoid paying restaurant bills and cab fares.
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Champ retains NYC hot-dog eating title in overtime
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Joey Chestnut achieved frankfurter immortality Friday, outdueling his celebrated Japanese rival in an epic hot-dog eating contest that pushed both of the gluttonous gladiators to the brink.
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Crazy cat that frightened neighborhood mends ways
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A combative cat named Lewis who frightened the neighbors and got his owner into legal trouble two years ago has done so well under house arrest that the case has now been scratched.
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UK court: Pringles are potato-light, tax-free
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Britain’s High Court has ruled that Pringles are not a potato snack, and thus are not subject to value-added tax.
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2 teens attacked in town mocked in YouTube videos
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Two teenagers who drove to Oniontown after a series of YouTube videos portrayed the hamlet as a run-down, backwoods dump were pelted with rocks by an angry group of young residents, authorities said.
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Chestnut wins hot dog contest after eat-off
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Joey Chestnut reclaimed the top spot at the annual hot dog eating contest in Coney Island on Friday after first tying with archrival Takeru Kobayashi in a 10-minute chow-down and then beating him in a five-dog eat-off.
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Tortoise returned after 2 1/2 weeks on the lam
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A 60-pound tortoise that escaped from a family’s garage last month is back home after a 2 1/2-week adventure that took him through three northwestern Indiana towns.
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Ben Franklin, Betsy Ross actors wed in Philly
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Benjamin Franklin and Betsy Ross celebrated the eve of the Fourth of July not with fireworks but with wedding vows.
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1851 gun used in Civil War returns to Arkansas
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An 1851 artillery gun carried into battle by Arkansas military school students who joined the Confederate Army was unveiled in its home state Thursday after nearly 150 years.
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Minn. teen charged with offering his vote on eBay
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A college student claimed it was all a joke when he put his vote in this fall’s presidential election up for sale on the Web auction site eBay. But prosecutors didn’t see the humor.
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Miniature dachshund gnaws off diabetic owner’s toe
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An Illinois woman says her beloved miniature dachshund gnawed off her right big toe while she was asleep. Linda Floyd told the Alton Telegraph for a story Wednesday that her beloved Roscoe was euthanized because of safety concerns.
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Man nabbed after calling cops on stolen cell phone
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A Duluth man is under arrest after he called police on a cell phone from a purse he had just allegedly snatched. Police arrested the 29-year-old man on Wednesday.
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Cremated remains part of fireworks show
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One of the fireworks bursting above the city this year will contain a bit of cremated remains _ a fitting tribute, organizers say, to the man who ran the annual event for 40 years.
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Man accused of robbing, then hugging Mo. victim
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Police in the southeast Missouri town of Poplar Bluff are looking for the gunman who robbed a man on Monday night, then gave him a hug before fleeing.
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Woman accused of stealing cat to get back her dog
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Police say a South Florida woman stole a couple’s cat to get them to return her dog. Linda Urioste’s black Labrador was recently picked up by animal control officers and later adopted by Jutta Hollar and her husband.
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Wrong number! Job hotline was sex line
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Looking for work in all the wrong places?
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Oregon lawn-chair pilot plans 300-mile flight
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Like many Americans, Kent Couch plans to settle into a lawn chair during the Fourth of July weekend. Unlike everyone else, his feet will dangle high above the lawn.
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Alleged police car joyride lands SC teen in jail
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Call him the short arm of the law. Police in Dillon, a small town near the North Carolina border, say a 13-year-old with an interest in law enforcement twice stole a police cruiser and took it out to do some patrolling.
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More than 2,000 guitarists appear to set record
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More than 2,000 guitar-players performing "This Land is Your Land" in a Bay Area park appear to have strummed their way into the record books.
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New Zealand man puts up his soul for auction
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A New Zealand man has put his soul up for auction to the highest bidder, noting that it is "a merry old soul" rather than a "funk soul brother" but that he would "would like to think there is a bit of funk in there somewhere."
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