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Iowa Dog Reunited With Family After 3 Years, 70 Miles
Seeded on Thu Dec 15, 2011 11:38 AM EST (The Huffington Post)
For more than half his life, a 5 year-old dog named Canyon has been without his owners. That all changed when Carrie Lentner and Justin Ellyson, Canyon's owners, got a call from the Mercer County Animal Control Department, in Aledo, Ill., three years after Canyon went missing fr …
NTSB pushes for nationwide ban on cellphone use for drivers
Seeded on Wed Dec 14, 2011 4:55 PM EST (The Washington Post)
The National Transportation Safety Board recommended Tuesday that all states and the District ban cellphone use behind the wheel, becoming the first federal agency to call for an outright prohibition on telephone conversations while driving.
Cat's 26 toes help boost Milwaukee animal shelter
Fri Dec 9, 2011 3:05 AM EST
In a reversal of fortunes, a once-unwanted cat has come to the rescue of an animal shelter in need of a new home.
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Plastic chemical gone from water at Sunnyside Elementary in Pulaski School District
Seeded on Thu Dec 8, 2011 2:47 PM EST (The Green Bay Press-Gazette)
New test results on local water supplies have found no traces of a chemical that has forced students at Sunnyside Elementary School to stay away from the bubblers there.
Cannonball hits house after TV experiment goes wrong
Seeded on Thu Dec 8, 2011 7:50 AM EST (Telegraph)
Nobody was injured when the cannonball went astray, although a parked car was damaged.
Crop circles discovered in U.P. : News : UpperMichigansSource.com
Seeded on Tue Oct 25, 2011 1:39 PM EDT (Upper Michigan's Source.com)
A Harris farmer discovered two unusual crop circles in his cornfield on Thursday, and there's no explanation of how they were formed. The two perfect circles are about 50 yards apart and 125 feet in diameter. There is no damage to the stalks, which are all bent over in a c …
Michigan woman reports UFO hovering low over I-275 - National ufo | Examiner.com
Seeded on Thu Aug 11, 2011 11:15 AM EDT (Examiner)
A Michigan woman driving southbound along I-275 near Livonia reports a dark object hovering at the height of a light pole with "intense white-blue lights around a boomerang perimeter," according to August 5, 2011, testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting d …
Family pickets restaurant :: News Sun :: Something to Talk About
Seeded on Tue Jun 8, 2010 9:18 AM EDT (The News Sun)
A Gurnee family is picketing area Jimmy John's stores, claiming that a delivery driver for the business nearly ran down their teenage son.
Film company seeks hairy Swedish nudists
Seeded on Mon May 24, 2010 12:26 PM EDT (The Local)
A Swedish-Norwegian co-production is close to completing its recruitment drive for a team of 70 hairy, naked extras to fill the backdrop of a new movie to film in Trollhättan in June.
Kenosha News | Jury: Driver not guilty of homicide
Seeded on Thu May 13, 2010 10:50 AM EDT (kenoshanews.com)
Jurors deliberated about 2½ hours Wednesday before finding an Illinois man not guilty in a 2008 crash that killed a county police officer.
Man critical after Gurnee motorcycle crash
Seeded on Wed May 5, 2010 10:31 AM EDT (The Daily Herald)
A 61-year-old Grayslake man is in critical condition following a motorcycle accident at Route 120 and River Road Wednesday morning, authorities said.
Woman painting nails while driving kills motorcyclist
Seeded on Wed May 5, 2010 10:25 AM EDT (Lake County News Sun)
There was no question that Lora Hunt of Morris was painting her fingernails when she fatally rear-ended a motorcyclist on May 2, 2009.
Possible UFO spotted in Marquette
Seeded on Mon Apr 26, 2010 5:19 PM EDT (Upper Michigan Source)
A mysterious silver flying object was seen over Lake Superior next to Picnic Rocks on Sunday. Two witnesses reported seeing the object, which they described as a small version of stealth bomber, at 4:20 p.m., looking east.
Mysterious giant ice balls discovered on Swedish coastline
Seeded on Wed Jan 6, 2010 11:00 AM EST (The Local)
Bird watchers walking along the beach on the Baltic island of Öland off Sweden's southeastern coast were puzzled by an unusual natural phenomenon recently when they stumbled across dozens of football-sized balls of ice lying on the shore.
Kenosha News | Champion liar a timely trickster
Seeded on Thu Dec 31, 2009 10:42 AM EST (Kenosha News)
Of all the liars who submitted entries to the annual Burlington Liars Club contest, this year's winner stood out for telling a timely tale. Larry Legro from Sun Prairie won the 2009 World Champion Lie contest with this fib:
Unauthorized gyno exams by medical students common: report
Seeded on Tue Dec 29, 2009 5:41 PM EST (The Local)
A woman with suspected cervical cancer was given a gynaecological exam without her knowledge by medical students at a hospital in Gothenburg in western Sweden, reported Aftonbladet newspaper.
Duck sex even more screwed up than human sex
Seeded on Wed Dec 23, 2009 8:10 AM EST (Scientific Blogging)
Female ducks have evolved to biologically thwart undesirable agressive males' advances.
30-point buck shot in Fond du Lac County is a state record
Seeded on Wed Dec 9, 2009 3:56 PM EST (The Reporter)
Wayne Schumacher's "lucky buck" holds the new state record as the largest non-typical buck shot with a bow in Wisconsin history.
Bunny Rabbits Thrive with New Penile Erectile Tissue
Seeded on Tue Nov 10, 2009 8:13 AM EST (DBTechno.com)
Results of a new study will be very interesting to men, as US scientists have been able to grow penile erectile tissue using stem cells and bunny rabbits.
Fury over three-year-old's retouched school photo
Seeded on Fri Nov 6, 2009 10:07 AM EST (Thelocal.de)
The father of a three-year-old girl from northern Sweden is outraged that school photographers have retouched his daughter's school picture for the second year in a row.
Michigan man can sue store he robbed
Seeded on Thu Nov 5, 2009 10:05 AM EST (uppermichigansource.com)
A Michigan judge says a man who claims he was chased, shot and beaten by workers at a store he'd just robbed, can sue the men, but only if he comes up with $10,000 within two weeks. Scott T.
Chupacabra - Creationist Museum Displays Mystery Beast
Seeded on Fri Oct 30, 2009 5:19 PM EDT (Live Science)
Last week a most unusual animal made its world premiere in an equally strange museum in the small town of Phoenix, New York.
Giant Pumpkin Breaks Record
Seeded on Fri Oct 30, 2009 4:58 PM EDT (Live Science)
The record for giant pumpkins was broken this month with one farmer growing a hefty gourd that weighed more than the average cow.
Bats Find Fellatio Beneficial
Seeded on Fri Oct 30, 2009 4:50 PM EDT (Live Science)
When they do their thing, female Chinese fruit bats add oral sex to get the males to prolong the act, scientists now find, suggesting the behavior confers evolutionary benefits.
Twitter anarchist raided under 'riot' laws
Seeded on Wed Oct 28, 2009 2:09 PM EDT (CNN)
An anarchist social worker raided by the feds wants his computers, manuscripts and pick axes back. He argues that authorities violated the U.S. Constitution and the rights of his mentally ill clients while searching for evidence that he broke an anti-rioting law on Twitter.
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