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Thursday, September 16, 2010

Teen inmates pedal to freedom

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TWO teenage prisoners pedalled to freedom after they were let out of jail for the day to take a cycling test ... READ MORE

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A restaurant chain known for its pancakes is suing a Kansas City-based church mission that promotes its belief in daily, continuous prayer. ... READ MORE

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THREE students were rushed to the hospital after capsicum spray was used at a school in Cambridge, Massachussets. ... READ MORE

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A SCHOOL bus driver in central Georgia was fired for letting two students - ages 13 and 15 - drive her bus while other young passengers were on board. .. READ MORE

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She is one of only a handful of humans whose bodies have rebelled against life's most vital ingredient. ... READ MORE

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Computer security firm PC Tools late Wednesday released a study showing that nearly a quarter of U.S. residents think it is fine to be "plugged in" to the Internet during sex. .... READ MORE

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IN A medical first, French doctors have removed an obese woman's infected kidney by pulling it through her vagina ... READ MORE

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Several people in New Jersey claimed they saw a person falling from the sky with no parachute, but an extensive police search has turned up no evidence, NBC Philadelphia reported. ... READ MORE

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Thanks to a liquid mixture made of cotton fibres, we could soon be spraying ourselves into everything from T-shirts, dresses and trousers to swimwear and hats. ... READ MORE

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A BANK robber was convinced by staff to sit down and arrange a loan to help his financial problems. ... READ MORE

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Unlike the many teen girls who go back to school eager to show off their newly pierced ears or their bejeweled navels, Ariana Iacono made little fuss about her nose ring. ... READ MORE

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A TWELVE-year-old girl and her family feared they had become the subject of a paedohile Facebook stalker after explicit messages were posted on their walls and the youngster’s profile had been hacked into. ... READ MORE

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Checkpoint Charlie's lesser-known Cold War contemporary, Allied Checkpoint Bravo, has been sold at auction for the minimum bid price of €45,000 ($58,000) to an anonymous purchaser. ... READ MORE

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A MAN was winched from his home as he lay on a ladder because he was too large for paramedics to take him out the front door. ... READ MORE

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A MINUSCULE cow with a taste for contemporary music has been named the world's smallest by the Guinness World Records book. ... READ MORE

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SOUTH African police are on the hunt for a "PigSpotter", a Twitter user who posts the locations of speed traps and roadblocks on Johannesburg's streets ... READ MORE

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A grand jury has indicted an Ohio woman accused of providing marijuana to her 2-year-old daughter and using her cell phone to record the child smoking the drug. ... READ MORE


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A nurse seized a dying man’s mobile phone after he called a hospital switchboard for help when she ignored his plea for a glass of water. ...

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A parrot is being hailed a hero after it fought off a gang of thieves when they targeted a pet shop. ... READ MORE

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An estate agent showed prospective buyers around an £800,000 house while the owner lay dead on her sofa, ... READ MORE

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Authorities May Charge Woman Accused Of Hoarding Nearly 130 Cats And 14 Dogs In Her Home ... READ MORE

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TEACHERS normally walk off the job over pay claims, but at a NSW North Coast high school they're going on strike because of bats. ... READ MORE

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MEN who operate at high levels of stress not only risk having poor health, they may also be damaging their love lives ... READ MORE

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Authorities say a would-be South Carolina bank robber left with a polite "thank you" after a teller told him she didn't have any money in her cash drawer. ... READ MORE

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A primary school teacher has been reprimanded in Japan for asking students to figure out how long it would take to kill 18 children at a rate of three murders per day. ... READ MORE

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Police say a prominent Wisconsin district attorney sent repeated text messages trying to spark an affair with a domestic abuse victim while he was prosecuting her ex-boyfriend ... READ MORE

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A driver has been caught on camera eating a bowl of cereal - while at the wheel of a lorry on a busy motorway. ... READ MORE

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A tow truck driver has been arrested after police say he crashed two cars while intoxicated — then got in his truck and tried to move the vehicles. ... READ MORE

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