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| 11/20/2008 Ind. inmates sneak through ceiling to have sex
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| AP - Three male and three female inmates at a southern Indiana jail face charges that they devised a way to sneak between cell blocks to help pass their time behind bars by having sex.
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| 11/19/2008 Rapper gets 20 years after writing shooting song
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| AP - He shot a man twice and felt so good about it, police said, a rapper wrote a song describing the shooting and calling out the victim by name. A judge sentenced 25-year-old Rico Todriquez Wright Monday to spend the next 20 years in prison after his victim mentioned the hip hop confession to police.
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| 11/19/2008 Thieves pry bronze Virgin Mary statue from church
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| AP - Thieves may have to take an awkward trip to the confessional. A bronze statue of the Virgin Mary was lifted from a Catholic church in Newport Beach. Police Lt. Craig Fox said the 4-to-5 foot statue was pried from its base on the front of Our Lady Queen of Angels Church on Friday night.
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| 11/19/2008 NC undercover officers use Taser on pallbearer
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| AP - Five sheriff's deputies will be disciplined after they used a Taser while serving an arrest warrant on a man at his father's funeral, a North Carolina sheriff said Wednesday.
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| 11/19/2008 Mass. woman's 1 cent debt paid in full
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| AP - A 74-year-old blind woman's 1 cent debt to a Massachusetts city has been settled. People from across the country called Attleboro City Hall on Tuesday offering to pay the 1 cent balance owed by Eileen Wilbur for an overdue water and sewer bill.
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| 11/18/2008 Parliament picks bomb hoaxer as speaker
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| Reuters - Lithuania's newly elected parliament has chosen as its new speaker a popular television talent show host once convicted of placing a prank call about a bomb in a hotel.
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| 11/17/2008 Couple pays $200 for "special" samosas
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 Reuters - A Dutch couple on a visit to the eastern Indian state of Bihar paid 10,000 rupees ($204) for four samosas, a spicy deep-fried snack that usually doesn't cost more than a few rupees, a newspaper reported on Monday.
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| 11/17/2008 Pudgiest pets compete in slimming contest
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 Reuters - Eight of Britain's fattest pets are to embark on a 100-day diet and fitness regime in a bid to crowned this year's pet fit club champion.
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| 11/17/2008 Climber plumps for portable toilets for Everest
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 Reuters - A young Nepali climber is seeking to popularize a toilet fashioned from a plastic bucket with a lid to promote eco-friendly climbing on Mount Everest.
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| 11/14/2008 Ancient Greeks pre-empted Dead Parrot sketch
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 Reuters - "I'll tell you what's wrong with it. It's dead, that's what's wrong with it."
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| 11/19/2008 Sumo-Happy hunter Asashoryu plots New Year ring return
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| Reuters - Volatile grand champion Asashoryu will not return to the ring until the New Year despite being fit enough to hunt and cook wild animals in the Mongolian mountains.
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| 11/19/2008 Gaffe-prone Japan PM apologises over doctor remark
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| Reuters - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso apologised Wednesday for appearing to insult doctors, an important political interest group, by saying many of them lack common sense.
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| 11/20/2008 General and daughter enjoy Thai-style family feud
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| Reuters - Thailand's three-year political crisis has divided friends and families, but few can have felt the strain as much as the Sawadipol clan.
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| 11/18/2008 Kangaroo genes close to humans
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 Reuters - Australia's kangaroos are genetically similar to humans and may have first evolved in China, Australian researchers said Tuesday.
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| 11/18/2008 China farmer avoids jail in fake tiger photo trial
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| Reuters - A farmer in northern China found guilty of doctoring photos of an endangered tiger after collecting a cash reward from wildlife authorities, has been handed a lighter sentence on appeal, local media said on Tuesday.
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| 11/19/2008 Irate man wields bat to liberate his lost cat
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| AP - Police are looking for an irate pet lover so intent on liberating his lost cat that he wielded a bat to fend off animal shelter employees. Dallas Animal Shelter manager Kent Robertson said the man found his missing gray and blue short-haired cat at the shelter, where it had been brought by someone who thought it was a stray.
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| 11/18/2008 World's oldest polar bear dies at Canadian zoo
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| Reuters - Canadian zoo officials on Tuesday were mourning the death of what is believed to be the world's oldest polar bear.
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| 11/18/2008 Man nabbed after hitting girlfriend with sandwich
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| AP - A man faces a domestic battery charge after allegedly hitting his girlfriend with a sandwich as she was driving on Interstate 95 on Friday. Police said the 19-year-old man became angry and hit the woman in the arm and face with a sandwich, knocking her glasses off.
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| 11/19/2008 German lawmaker apologises for blocking Wikipedia
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| Reuters - A member of parliament who got a court order blocking online encyclopaedia Wikipedia in Germany for two days because of entries linking him to communist-era security police apologised Tuesday for overreacting.
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| 11/18/2008 Driver loses control after sneeze, hits river
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| AP - An untimely sneeze nearly cost Andrew Hanson his life. The 42-year-old Weymouth man told authorities that a sneeze caused him to lose control of his pickup on Soldiers Field Road and plunge into Boston's Charles River on Tuesday.
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