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FOX News
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The city is selling 500 pounds of foreign coins that found their way into its parking meters this year.
"We have pretty much every denomination from every continent," said Anthony Alfano, the city's deputy chief of meter collections. The most common co..
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FOX News
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Dozens of women posed naked on their bicycles on a bridge over one of Amsterdam's historic canals Sunday — a unique sight even in a city famed for its relaxed attitude toward nudity and sex.
They were among 2,000 men and women who participated in a s..
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Reuters
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A naked American tourist raised eyebrows when he went for a walk through a German city and told police he thought this was acceptable behavior in Germany.
"We have been having unusually hot weather here lately but, all the same, we can't have this," a..
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Yahoo News
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Joe Selle didn't exactly get voted out office this week, but he wasn't re-elected, either.
Selle, who was running unopposed for City Council, didn't get any votes at all. Not even one from himself.
Selle, 42, said he simply forgot that Tuesday was e..
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Yahoo News
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A spider monkey that escaped from a Mexico City zoo boarded a bus and attacked a passenger, Red Cross officials said Tuesday. The monkey got on the bus at about 11 p.m. Monday after escaping from the San Juan de Aragon Zoo, Red Cross spokesman Jair Martin..
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Yahoo News
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Hundreds of people waited in lines for up to an hour for a chance to taste something different at the 16th annual Mountain Oyster Fry.
Servers at five booths dispensed about 130 pounds of "fried oysters," or sheep testicles, at the Saturday event in th..
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Yahoo News
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A city worker was awarded $660,000 over claims he was unfairly punished after reporting that fellow employees were shooting pigeons for fun on department grounds.
William M. Lakes, 46, who worked for the Department of Public Works, reported the pigeon..
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Yahoo News
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The Moondance Diner made it safely through a 2,100-mile trek west from New York City, but it was no match for a Wyoming winter.
Heavy snow damaged the roof and walls of the historic eatery this past week.
New owners Cheryl and Vince Pierce said they..
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Yahoo News
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Baggy pants that show boxer shorts or thongs would be illegal under a proposed amendment to Atlanta's indecency laws. The amendment, sponsored by city councilman C.T. Martin, states that sagging pants are an "epidemic" that is becoming a "major concern" a..
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Yahoo News
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A taxi cab company had a heart.
Yellow Cab of Iowa City had to keep a human heart, en route to a tissue processing company in Atlanta, at its dispatch office after an airline refused to keep it overnight at the Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids...
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Yahoo News
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An employee in the Detroit planning department who claims she is severely sensitive to perfumes and other cosmetics has sued the city, saying a co-worker's strong fragrance prohibits her from working.
Susan McBride's lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. Dist..
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Yahoo News
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A World War I veteran's watch lost nearly 90 years ago, has stood the test of time. William B. Gill lost his watch in France, where he served in the U.S. Army. Another man, Carl Grothaus, won it in a poker game and brought it back to South Dakota.
Grot..
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Yahoo News
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More than 1,680 guitar players turned out, tuned up and took part in what organizers say was a world record rendition of Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water" a song that was the first many of them ever learned.
Some came from as far away as California..
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Yahoo News
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A police officer who claims his chicken sandwich was slimed by two teenage employees at a McDonald's restaurant is suing the fast food company.
Officer Josh Douglas said he was working nights two years ago and went through the McDonald's drive-thru in..
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Yahoo News
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For months, the city's most famous reptile eluded paparazzi and faithful fans who gathered at the edge of a park lake to catch a glimpse of the A-list alligator. But when "Reggie" decided to come out, the gator did it in true Hollywood style: Swarmed by f..
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Yahoo News
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Telephones typically ring, not tick, so a man who went to the post office to pick up a novelty phone he ordered over the Internet was alarmed that the package was ticking.
It turned out that the phone shaped like Winnie the Pooh had a feature the..
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Yahoo News
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City streets got an unscheduled cleaning as a sudsy citrus-scented foam erupted from manhole covers like geysers.
The bubbles spewed from a three-block stretch on the city's east side Thursday after American Linen accidentally released detergent into t..
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Yahoo News
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The city may be looking for a few good noses. When it meets Tuesday, the City Council is expected to set a public hearing for a law that would create a committee to sniff out objectionable odors.
Ogden's chief administrator, John Patterson, said the ci..
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USA Today
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Investors in a central China city are building a giant $300 million sculpture of a dragon that they say will be the largest in the world, state media said on Tuesday.
The "Ancestral Dragon," whose partially completed head rises 30 feet above ground in..
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Yahoo News
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Frank Formica's task is bigger than a loaf of bread but smaller than an elephant. Actually, it IS a loaf of bread for an elephant. Make that 300 loaves of bread for a half-dozen elephants.
His business, Formica Brothers, has a contract with Ringling Br..
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