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Flight attendant jailed for bomb hoax

May 25 2009 - Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) – A flight attendant was jailed for 18 months on Thursday for leaving a bomb hoax note on board an Emirates aircraft he was working on and sparking a scare that led to London's Gatwick Airport briefly closing.

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Court detains preacher with 86 wives

Sep 16 2008 - Reuters
A Nigerian Muslim court Monday detained an 84-year-old Islamic preacher with 86 wives after he failed to heed a call by local leaders to divorce all but four of them.

The authorities in central Niger state charged Mohammed Bello with "insulting...

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N.J. man broke into house, walked home in underwear, cops say 09/08/2008

Sep 8 2008 - Daily Freeman.com
A New Jersey man was charged with breaking into a home and stealing a bottle of wine before walking home in his underwear, state police said.

Andrew Hurth, 38, of Wantage Township, N.J., was arrested Saturday on charges of burglary, a felony,...

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Texas school district to let teachers carry guns

Aug 15 2008 - Reuters
A Texas school district will let teachers bring guns to class this fall, the district's superintendent said on Friday, in what experts said appeared to be a first in the United States.
 

The board of the small rural Harrold Independent...

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Judge: Girl's name, Talula Does The Hula, won't do

Jul 24 2008 - AP
A family court judge in New Zealand has had enough with parents giving their children bizarre names here, and did something about it.

Just ask Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii. He had her renamed.

Judge Rob Murfitt made the 9-year-old...

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Woman sues Victoria's Secret claiming thong injury

Jun 20 2008 - Reuters
 A woman who says she was hurt by her thong panties when a metal clip flew off and hit her in the eye has sued Victoria's Secret, saying in a TV interview on Thursday that the injury caused her "excruciating pain."
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Texas justice of the peace sued over paddlings

Jun 4 2008 - AP
A family sued a justice of the peace Wednesday, complaining that he ordered a man to paddle his teenage stepdaughter in the courtroom and threatened to convict her of truancy if he didn't.

The lawsuit filed by Mary Vasquez and her husband,...

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Teen love caught hanging in the balance

Mar 18 2008 - AP
Two teenagers, one dangling from a rope tied to an interstate bridge and holding a can of spray paint, did not see Sheriff's Deputy Melissa Myers when she drove up. They never got a chance to express their love with graffiti.

"I don't...

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Police: No pants on NY doughnut customer

Mar 14 2008 - AP
 Careful with that coffee! Police say a man placing an order in a suburban New York doughnut shop's drive-through lane didn't have any pants on.

They say a Dunkin' Donuts worker saw John Greco's exposed genitals in the...

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Bags allegedly strapped to kids' legs to smuggle coke into U.K.

Mar 13 2008 - AP
A Mexican woman was charged Thursday with trying to smuggle more than 30 pounds of cocaine into Britain by strapping bags of the drug to the legs of two children.

Elisa Vazquez Sanchez, 40, was detained Tuesday at London’s Heathrow airport...

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French mayor tells locals not to die

Mar 6 2008 - Reuters

BORDEAUX, France (Reuters) - The mayor of a village in southwest France has threatened residents with severe punishment if they die, because there is no room left in the overcrowded cemetery to bury them.

In an ordinance posted in the...

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N.H. cops use newspaper photo to nab man

Mar 4 2008 - AP
Vern Potter's whereabouts had been unknown since Concord police issued an arrest warrant for him in January. Then a police lieutenant happened to spot a page-one photo of Potter in Tuesday's New Hampshire Union Leader, shoveling snow off the roof...

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Complaint: Anger class student hit woman

Feb 29 2008 - AP
A man on his way to anger management class became angry and struck a woman, authorities said.

Justin John Boudin, 27, pleaded guilty Friday to fifth-degree assault in Ramsey County District Court and can expect to face a sentence for time served...

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Roger that. It's a man on a lawn mower

Feb 27 2008 - AP
A man led police on a very slow-speed chase, refusing to stop while riding a lawn mower at about 3 mph across a busy street and steering it toward an officer before he was grabbed and arrested, a police report says.

Now, authorities say, the...

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Internet sex auction sparks paternity row

Feb 13 2008 - Reuters
A woman in Germany who became pregnant after an online sex auction has won a court battle to force the Web site that hosted the sale to reveal the names of the winners, so she can find out who's the father.

Six different men won Internet...

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