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Surgeons remove tiger's basketball-sized hairball
Posted 1:37 PM 5/24/2013 by ASSOCIATED PRESS
CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) - 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. The 17-year-old tiger named Ty underwent the procedure Wednesday at a veterinary (More)
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Mom has son arrested for eating Pop-Tarts without permission
Posted 2:34 PM 5/23/2013 by NBC News
(WCNC) A Charlotte, North Carolina woman had her son arrested for stealing her Pop-Tarts earlier this week.
According to a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police report, the mother called investigators on Monday to report her Pop-Tarts had been stolen.
She fingered her own son, who is a (More) • Video (1)
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Coin tossing breaks tie in Philippine mayoral race
Posted 1:57 PM 5/16/2013 by ASSOCIATED PRESS
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - 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. Marvic Feraren and Boyet Py both received 3,236 votes for mayor of San Teodoro town in Mindoro Oriental province in (More)
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Man charged in overnight feast at Ky. supermarket
Posted 2:44 PM 5/14/2013 by NBC News
MOUNT WASHINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Authorities in Kentucky have charged a man who officers say had an overnight feast in a closed supermarket outside Louisville. The manager of a ValuMarket says he found 57 empty whipped cream cans in the garbage when he arrived Monday morning. WAVE-TV in (More)
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Punched over pickles
Posted 9:35 AM 5/14/2013 by NBC News
(WHDH) Police say a Quincy, Massachusets woman is facing charges for allegedly punching a restaurant worker who put "too many pickles" on her steak and cheese sandwich.
Metro Boston Transit police say 49-year-old Tina Drouin ordered the sub from Nathan's Famous Hot Dogs in the Quincy (More) • Video (1)
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Scratch-and-sniff cards prompt natural gas scare
Posted 3:02 PM 5/9/2013 by ASSOCIATED PRESS
GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) - 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. Energy West general manager Nick Bohr tells the Great Falls Tribune that workers (More)
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Woman, 80, swallows diamond at Fla. charity event
Posted 5:13 AM 4/26/2013 by ASSOCIATED PRESS
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - The idea behind the Tampa Women's Club charity event was simple. For $20, you could buy a flute of champagne and a chance to win a one-carat, $5,000 diamond. Organizers of the Saturday event placed $10 cubic zirconia stones in the bottom of 399 of the 400 (More)
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Woman comes face-to-face with escaped tiger in circus bathroom
Posted 9:17 AM 4/23/2013 by NBC News
(KSNW) Jenna Krehbiel will never forget her first trip to the circus.
During a trip to the restroom she came face-to-face with an escaped tiger.
Krehbiel was washing up when another woman ran in, grabbed her daughter, told her a tiger had escaped, and ran out.
"And when I (More) • Video (1)
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BBC in hot seat as anti-Thatcher song climbs chart
Posted 9:27 AM 4/12/2013 by RAPHAEL SATTER Associated Press
LONDON (AP) - The BBC came up with an awkward compromise Friday over "Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead," a song that is zooming up the music charts in a posthumous protest against Margaret Thatcher. The online campaign to drive the "Wizard of Oz" song to the No. 1 spot on the U.K. singles (More)
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Man accused of sleeping with dead girlfriend's body for several days
Posted 12:03 PM 4/10/2013 by NBC News
(WITN) A North Carolina man is accused of concealing his girlfriend's death, and deputies say he even slept in the same bed with the corpse for several days. The woman's mother says she called authorities after realizing her daughter was dead.
Randall Johnson of Williamston is charged with (More) • Video (1)
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Strip for Jesus? Church's controversial sign raises eyebrows
Posted 9:22 AM 3/28/2013 by NBC News
(WVTM) A provocative church billboard situated behind a Birmingham, Alabama strip club is gaining national attention.
The Rock Church created the jaw-dropping sign that says, 'Strip for me, Jesus'. The message is a loosely paraphrases scripture from Hebrews 12:1 in the New Living (More) • Video (1)
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Defending Punxsutawney Phil
Posted 4:13 PM 3/26/2013 by NBC News
Almost two months ago Punxsutawney Phil promised us an early Spring, but as the snow continues to pile up into late March some are looking to take out their frustrations on the famous groundhog.
Apparently driven by frustration and freezing temperatures, this week an Ohio prosecutor filed (More) • Video (1)
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