Police said a local pharmacist gained a measure of revenge against a serial burglar in a sweet fashion. Police said they responded to an alarm at the Clinic Pharmacy on Sunday morning and found a window broken and four pill bottles of hydrocodone were missing.
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Behind the wheel, you want the least amount of distraction possible. So why is a local transportation agency painting crooked lines on the road on purpose? The Virginia Department of Transportation says it's part of a safety campaign to get drivers to slow down in a high pedestrian and bicycle area.
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A woman making a stop to pick up her mail from a post office in Michigan ended up trapped inside for four hours because of a door malfunction. WJBK-TV reported the post office in Willis about 28 miles southwest of Detroit was closed Thursday evening when the woman stopped by but the post office box area was open. After she went inside to get her mail, she couldn't get out.
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Heidi, Germany's beloved cross-eyed opossum, is taking a page from Paul the Octopus' playbook: the marsupial will attempt to pick this year's Oscar winners.
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On the way home from a hard day's work, Ferenc Nagy often gets the urge to pop into his favorite boozer for another round of binge reading.
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When it comes to grabbing fruit off trees, baboons don't monkey around. Now their speed at gobbling up quickly ripening fruit has led to a discovery of what is believed to be a new type of tangerine.
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SINGORE - Paying for extras has become routine for airline passengers but it doesn't mean they like it, with a poll showing more than half all travelers hate having to fork out to choose their seat.
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Police are searching for a burglar who stole a box of cookies from a north Florida discount store. Police said the thief took a box of Oreo Cakesters from the Dollar General store early Friday morning. The cookies are valued at $2.50. Surveillance footage shows a man entering the store after breaking a glass door.
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The guys from Maine who became online celebrities by creating geysers from Mentos candies and Diet Coke say they have harnessed that power to create a "rocket car."
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LONDON - A spate of thefts from gardens and washing lines in a southern English town had been puzzling police.
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Mark Leon lives in a sweet spot for big rigs in Los Angeles County.
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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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The Newsroom - Shakespeare famously asked '... what's in a name? that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet ...' To that, Douglas Allen Smith Jr. of Oregon would respond: "everything." Mr. Smith is so convinced that …
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The Great Wall never looked so tasty: a team of Chinese confectioners have built a 10 metre (33 ft) long replica of the structure entirely out of chocolate in a bid to entice Chinese to eat more of the sweet stuff.
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Mexican sales of Ford's Lobo pick-up, popular with drug cartel hitmen, are falling along with those of similar vehicles because motorists fear being mistaken for gangsters by soldiers and police, the head of the U.S. automaker's local subsidiary said on Thursday.
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A northern Chinese city has come up with an innovative way to encourage residents to keep the streets clean -- it is paying five fen (just under one US cent) for every used cigarette butt they pick up.
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A 17-month-old tiger escaped from the back of a pick-up truck while it was being driven to a veterinary clinic in South Africa, triggering a helicopter search by police and wildlife experts.
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When Brian Williams has his hair cut by his wife every month, he's not the only one who feels the benefit. His wife Joan collects the clippings on a sheet and shakes them out into the garden - where the birds then pick them up to make nests.
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A bobcat climbing a power pole got electrocuted and sparked a five-acre brush fire in California's Ventura County. County fire Capt. Dan Preston told the Ventura County Star that the bobcat was apparently chasing an owl or another bird when it touched the power lines, caught fire and fell to the ground in a rural area near Piru.
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A burning big-rig loaded with yams has caused a hot potato of a traffic problem on a Los Angeles-area freeway. Cailifornia Highway Patrol Officer Ed Jacobs said a tractor-trailer hauling 50,000 pounds of the sweet potatoes caught fire on the southbound Interstate 5 in Glendale at about 2:30 a.m. Thursday.
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