A Florida woman and her boyfriend have been charged with trying to sell her infant grandson for $30,000.
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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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The grandson of Josef Stalin is suing the radio station Ekho Moskvy, it said on Saturday, in a second attempt to stem media criticism of the leader whom many Russians still revere for victory in World War Two.
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Here's one Wisconsin grandmother who makes time for her grandson. Michelle Cuestas of Green Bay used two vacation days and camped out for 43 hours to make sure her grandson would be first in line for the 2010 opening of a Stevens Point ice-cream landmark.
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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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US President Barack Obama said Wednesday his security staff put the kibosh on a birthday cake that was to be offered by union leaders for his 49th birthday.
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Reuters - Children aren't the only ones being lavished with expensive birthday parties. Pet owners are also marking their dog's special day with celebrations.
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China does not keep track of the Dalai Lama's birthday, which fell on Tuesday, preferring to remember the date of Tibet's "peaceful liberation" and "serf emancipation day," a government spokesman said.
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The latest party circuit princess to wow the night clubs and festivals of France with her DJ skills is a British granny who took a shine to the decks after going to a birthday disco for her grandson.
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Reuters - A letter following a chance meeting with Albert Einstein and 1930s research on the perfect cup of coffee are two artifacts in an exhibit to mark the 150th anniversary of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Some were bearing gifts for Vladimir Putin's 58th birthday on Thursday -- others bared their flesh.
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A Montana woman received a big surprise for her 80th birthday — the wedding ring she lost eight years ago.
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Now in greeting card aisles, a new product for pranksters: cards that double as whoopie cushions. American Greetings Corp. on Friday unveiled the line of cards that can make embarrassing sounds, aptly named "It's a gas!"
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The grandmother of Oakland A's pitcher Dallas Braden offered a short but not so sweet message on the simmering feud between her grandson and New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez.
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An 85-year-old Ohio man was arrested for trying to smuggle pot to his grandson in prison, authorities said. Prison records show Richard Heritz was arrested at the Warren Correction Institution in southwestern Ohio earlier this month before he got to see his grandson, Gregory Heritz, who was serving time for a burglary conviction.
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Sebastian Vettel suggested a birthday gift to get Red Bull team mate and Formula One leader Mark Webber in a lather at the Belgian Grand Prix Thursday.
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The Newsroom - Most birthdates are pretty ordinary, but some can be real conversation starters. For example, anyone born this past Tuesday will always have a go-to story to break the ice. After all, a 1/11/11 birthday is pretty cool. Vanessa Doyle hopes …
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Reuters - A train packed with birthday gifts for North Korea's leader-in-waiting Kim Jong-un derailed this month in a possible act of sabotage, a Seoul-based radio station which broadcasts across the border reported on Monday.
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A 109-year-old woman wrote to the Queen to complain about the birthday cards she received and Prince William turned up by surprise to apologise. Catherine Masters from Oxfordshire wrote to say the Queen was wearing the same outfit in each of the five congratulatory cards she had received.
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An East Tennessee grandfather has been charged with endangerment after police said they stopped him while he was driving, drinking and holding his grandson in his arms. WRCB in Chattanooga reported the man was stopped because his van had a broken tail light. The station says surveillance video then shows the driver exit the van holding a 2-year-old.
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