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Mexican worker sews his lips to demand promotion

Mar 3 2009 - AP
VERACRUZ, Mexico – A Mexican state water company worker has sewn his lips together to draw attention to his five-year fight to get a promotion. The man used a needle and thread to put five stitches through his lips in front of the water company...

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Anti-kidnap expert kidnapped in Mexico

Dec 15 2008 - AFP
A top US anti-kidnapping expert was kidnapped in northeast Mexico last week, reports said Monday, in an audacious move amid a wave of drug-related violence and kidnappings.

Security advisor Felix Batista, 55, was abducted on December 10 in...

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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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Man arrested just 12 hours after release from jail

Aug 21 2008 - AP
 A 22-year-old man was back behind bars about 12 hours after he was released from jail, accused of stealing a car and beer and leading police on a high-speed chase.

Darren E. Roberts was released from the Sullivan County Jail Tuesday afternoon...

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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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Spelling "truely atrosious," says academic

Aug 7 2008 - Reuters
Embaressed by yor spelling? Never you mind.

Fed up with his students' complete inability to spell common English correctly, a British academic has suggested it may be time to accept "variant spellings" as legitimate.
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Alleged thief stuck under trash bin for 12 hours

Jul 31 2008 - AP
A suspected thief trying to steal $10 worth of copper got himself into a stinky situation when he was trapped under a trash bin at a county landfill for 12 hours, sheriff's deputies said.

Deputies said Gibson Cook, 56, broke into the landfill,...

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Drugs, phones wing their way to prisoners

Jun 25 2008 - Reuters
A sharp increase in drugs and cellphones found inside a Brazilian prison mystified officials -- until guards spotted some distressed pigeons struggling to stay airborne.

Inmates at the prison in Marilia, Sao Paulo state had been training carrier...

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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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Malaysian woman mistook naked thief for husband

May 12 2008 - Reuters
A Malaysian woman woke up to a real-life nightmare, discovering that the naked man who had slipped into her bed in the middle of the night was a thief, not her husband, a newspaper said on Tuesday.

The 36-year-old housewife was asleep when...

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Pregnant man tells Oprah: It's a miracle

Apr 4 2008 - Reuters
A transgender man who is six months pregnant said in an interview aired by Oprah Winfrey on Thursday that he always wanted to have a child and considers it a miracle.

"It's not a male or female desire to have a child. It's a human...

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Illinois-shaped corn flake for sale

Mar 17 2008 - AP
Sounds a little flaky, but someone has offered more than $50 on eBay for a piece of breakfast cereal that is touted as a lookalike to the state of Illinois.


Two sisters listed "The Great Illinois Corn Flake" on the online auction...

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High on Mount Sinai?

Mar 4 2008 - Reuters
The biblical Israelites may have been high on a hallucinogenic plant when Moses brought the Ten Commandments down from Mount Sinai, according to a new study by an Israeli psychology professor.

Writing in the British journal Time and Mind, Benny...

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Washington state detectives say man asked friend to shoot him in the arm so he could skip work

Mar 1 2008 - AP
 What happened to faking a cough?

Sheriff's detectives in Franklin County, Washington, say a man had his friend shoot him in the shoulder so he wouldn't have to go to work.

When he first spoke with deputies, Daniel Kuch...

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