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Scientists have discovered a legless lizard, a toad and a dwarf woodpecker among 14 species believed to be new to science in central Brazil, a wildlife conservation group said on Tuesday.
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AP, Eau Claire
Brian “Young Gun” Krause has out-spit his father to claim his seventh championship at the International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship in Eau Claire,...
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AP, Waukesha
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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AP, Baltimore
FedEx prides itself on reliability. But a mistaken delivery tipped off police to a 200-pound shipment of marijuana that someone tried to send from Pembroke Pines,...
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AP, Waukesha
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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AP, Dover
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...
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AP, Fairfield
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...
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AP, London
Britain’s High Court has ruled that Pringles are not a potato snack, and thus are not subject to value-added tax.
made popular Jul 4 2008
AP, Highland
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...
made popular Jul 4 2008
AP, Minneapolis
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...
made popular Jul 4 2008
AP, New York
He’s gone from hot-dog top dog to underdog.
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AP, Duluth
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.
made popular Jul 3 2008
AP, Poplar Bluff
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.
made popular Jul 3 2008
AP, Indianapolis
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...
made popular Jul 3 2008
AP, Annapolis
People looking for work by dialing a published phone number for the Maryland Job Service Hotline could end up with something completely different.
made popular Jul 3 2008
AP, Valparaiso
A man who was arrested for climbing to the roof of a gas station to sing a song protesting high gasoline prices says he will plead guilty to a trespassing charge.
made popular Jul 3 2008
AP, Dillon
Call him the short arm of the law.
made popular Jul 3 2008
AP, Concord
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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AP, Greenacres
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...
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AP, Pulaski
The Pulaski County Courthouse is almost free of fleas that hitched a ride on an opossum found dead between the floorboards. In early June, workers started to complain...
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AP, Wellington
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”...
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AP, Londonderry
A Londonderry, New Hampshire, woman got more than she bargained for when she opened her mailbox this week. A 3-foot-long snake was inside.
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AP, Bridgeport
Police in Bridgeport, Conn., say they arrested a man after he ordered his pet to attack two officers. Lucky for them, 9-foot-long pythons aren’t very obedient.
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AP, Bridgeport
Bridgeport police say they arrested a city man after he ordered his pet to attack two officers. Lucky for them that 9-foot-long pythons aren’t very obedient.
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AP, Brentwood
A woman who awoke to her baby’s cries was shocked to peer into the crib and find a foot-long snake wrapped around her 7-month-old daughter’s leg.
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AP, Brentwood
A Long Island animal shelter is a temporary home for a 1-foot-long snake that a mother found coiled on her 7-month-old daughter’s leg as the baby slept in a...
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AP, Berlin
A trio of packaged pythons has caused a scare at a German post office. Police in Darmstadt say the snakes were stuffed into a parcel that was handed in for mailing to...
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Living is a mixture of differences in any particular timing and, while depending on general global environment of which politics is a substantial constituent, leaves...
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AP, Manila
Commuters in the Philippine capital got a shock when they found an unwelcome passenger on their minibus: a 7-foot-long python.
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AP, Glen Burnie
Anne Arundel County police say a Glen Burnie woman was surprised by a three-foot python that slithered out from behind her media stand while she watched television in...
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AP, Santo
A rattlesnake rancher who calls himself Bayou Bob found a new way to make money: Stick a rattler inside a bottle of vodka and market the concoction as an “ancient...
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AP, Mclean
A high school coach emptying his luggage after a team trip to South Carolina was bitten by a small rattlesnake that had somehow gotten into his bag, authorities said.
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AP, Mclean
Maybe he heard a faint rattling around in his luggage, but he surely never assumed the sound came from a stowaway snake sealed in his bag.
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AP, Charlottesville
In a Feb. 29 story about a University of Virginia study on snake phobias, The Associated Press misstated the number of poisonous snakes in Virginia. There are four, not...
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AP, Charlottesville
Two University of Virginia researchers believe that humans are genetically predisposed to be deathly afraid of snakes. Judy S. DeLoache, a U.Va. professor of...
made popular Feb 29 2008
AP, Brisbane
A 16-foot python stalked a family dog for days before swallowing the pet whole in front of horrified children in the Australian tropics, animal experts said Wednesday.
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AP, Columbus
Fluffy, a 24-foot python billed as the largest snake in captivity, is staying put to lure visitors into the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.
made popular Jan 13 2008
AP, Brisbane
A snake was saved by surgery in Australia after mistaking four golf balls for chicken eggs, a veterinarian said Wednesday.
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AP, Brisbane
A snake has been saved by surgery after mistaking four golf balls for a meal of chicken eggs, a veterinarian said Wednesday. A couple had placed the balls in their...
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AP, Port St. Lucie
Maybe “Cobraman” should consider a new line of work. Ray Hunter, 44, of Port St. Lucie is still hospitalized nearly two weeks after being bitten by an...
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