A pistol-packing 69-year-old woman in northern Alabama believes intruders will think twice before messing with her again. Police said Ethel Jones shot an 18-year-old man in the stomach when she found him inside her bedroom at her home in Decatur. Jones said she sleeps with her gun under a pillow next to her and said she grabbed it after hearing a door rattle shortly before 3 a.m. Monday.
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Three generations of Coon Rapids women are now part of a very unique club. They all share the same birthday. Roxie Koep was born on June 1. She shares the birthday with her 29-year-old mother Rachel Koep and 56-year-old maternal grandmother Paula Ballanger. According to a St. Paul Pioneer Press calculation, the chance of a mother having the same birthday as one of her parents and her newborn is 1 ..
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BEIJING - Almost a year after Michael Jackson's death, the spirit of the King of Pop appears to live on in a 4-year-old Chinese boy, who is fast becoming an international dance sensation.
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Oregon State Police gave an 82-year-old woman a ticket for driving 28 miles per hour over her age and twice the posted speed limit of 55 mph.
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For 5-year-old Andrew Polasky, being loud has paid off.
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Nine-year-old Miu Hirano has grabbed the headlines for the second year running with another tearful record at the Japanese table tennis championships.
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A 56-year-old chimpanzee has surprised officials at a zoo in northeast Kansas by giving birth.
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An 18-year-old in Montana apparently thought it would be funny to yell "I'm going to kidnap you" at a 7-year-old girl, but the joke cost him a $185 fine for disorderly conduct.
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Authorities say a woman has been charged for allegedly letting a 12-year-old child drive her and her family from Nichols to Iowa City. Twenty-one-year-old Melissa Garcia was charged with three counts of child endangerment and operating a vehicle with no consent. She was in custody Sunday at the Johnson County Jail on a $10,000 cash only bond. Garcia was arrested Saturday night in Iowa City.
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The man wanted a dollar. When the 81-year-old woman
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A 9-year-old Connecticut girl who climbed to the roof of her house and attempted to crawl back inside through the chimney has been rescued after getting stuck. Assistant Fire Chief Jack Hennessey said the girl climbed up a house painter's ladder Wednesday morning, walked across the roof and tried to climb down the chimney.
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An 80-year-old woman with a criminal record stretching back to 1955 has been sentenced to three years in state prison for ransacking and stealing cash from a Southern California medical office. Doris Thompson thanked a judge Wednesday for not sending her to Los Angeles County jail, which she doesn't like, and said she deserved a longer sentence. She also told the judge, "God bles..
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Sarah Slicker became known as "the Naked Nanny" after she was arrested and accused of removing her clothes in front of a 4-year-old boy she was babysitting in 2004. But now the 27-year-old woman is a mother, and she appeared in court on Friday cradling her blond-haired toddler son.
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A 12-year-old student is working toward degrees in physics and math at Florida International University -- after taking his first class there two years ago.''We have fun here,'' he said as he prepared to start a work sheet on pistons, gases, and pressure with his lab partners.
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Police have a suspect in custody after a man peeked under a seven-year-old girl's dress Monday evening while she played outside with two friends. It doesn't appear the girl, who was in the southeast community of Ogden at around 6:30 p. m., was targeted, said Calgary police duty inspector Jim Stinson.
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Lim Guan Siew once had bound feet that were considered the height of feminine beauty in China, but the 93-year-old who now lives in Malaysia says it is a fate she wishes she had avoided.
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is one of the few people in the world who gets two birthdays, which might explain why the US State Department missed the mark this year... sending greetings a week early.
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A girl can be sued over accusations she ran over an elderly woman with her training bicycle when she was 4 years old, a New York Supreme Court justice has ruled.
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Western Pennsylvania officials were hoping for a grand unveiling of a century-old time capsule over the weekend, but they say both the capsule and their plans were spoiled.
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Ted Mazetier may be a grandfather, but at 84 years old, he's still got his chops.And two men learned that the hard way.Mazetier was driving down South Proctor Street Wednesday night when he spotted a car on the curb and two guys standing nearby. He thought they needed help, so he stopped.
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