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- In Mexico, underpass collision cancels 800-pound man's date
Last year, Manuel Uribe left his house for the first time in five years. Six people pushed his iron bed on wheels out to the street as a mariachi band played and a crowd gathered to see the man who once weighed 1,235 pounds.
Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:07:15 MST - Argentine zoo reports baby monkey snatched on busy weekend
The 6-inch, three-month-old titi monkey was stolen Sunday from the La Plata zoo, which was filled with 4,000 visitors at the time. Authorities say they are searching for two young men.
Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:43:25 MST - San Diego activist recruiting bench-warmers to block transient sleepers in upscale area
The group previously tried installing benches with metal dividers that split the seats. Transients simply began sleeping upright.
Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:49:19 MST - Minn. lawmaker proposes fragrance-free schools, says scents making some kids sick
Odors that fill hallways come mostly from boys who douse themselves in body sprays like Axe, said Mikolai Altenberg, a senior at Minneapolis South High School. He said the smell is ''indescribable'' and unavoidable.
Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:43:28 MST - Vatican official lists new sins: drugs, pollution, DNA manipulation
Sins increasingly manifest themselves as behavior that damages society as a whole, Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti said in an interview published Sunday by the Vatican's daily newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano.
Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:11:10 MST - Family sues after school gives boy detention for wearing shirt bearing gun image
Donald Miller III, 14, went to Penn Manor High School in December wearing a T-shirt he said was intended to honor his uncle, a U.S. Army soldier fighting in Iraq.
Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:11:09 MST - Ohio knitters dress up pear tree with public sweater
YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio - No, that's not a hallucination. That pear tree is wearing a sweater.
Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:43:59 MST - Black pastor fights KKK store in building he claims to own
LAURENS, S.C. - A black civil rights activist is fighting to close a store that sells KKK robes and T-shirts emblazoned with racial slurs. David Kennedy is confident he can make it happen. After all, he says he owns the building.
Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:44:01 MST - Kitten survives trip in shipping crate
CLEVELAND - A scrawny, black and white female kitten has apparently survived a trip across the Pacific Ocean and North America inside a shipping crate.
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:16:52 MST - Judges overturn libel verdict over pizzeria's rotten review
DUBLIN, Ireland - Appeals judges in Northern Ireland have overturned an unprecedented libel verdict in which a pizzeria owner successfully sued a Belfast newspaper over a rotten review.
Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:23:00 MST - Girl in Clinton's 3 a.m. ad is now 17 and supports Obama
Casey Knowles didn't much like a recent campaign commercial for Hillary Clinton - even though she's in it as a sleeping 8-year-old.
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:04:51 MST - Chinese tresses going for hair-raising prices
Natural hair used for extensions is imported in great quantities from China, but a surge in the popularity of extensions has created a dearth in supply, causing a surge in the price of hair from China.
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:35:47 MST - California thrift store worker returns $30,000 found in donated clothing
POMONA, Calif.- A thrift store worker in Southern California says she didn't think twice about returning $30,000 she found in donated clothing.
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 11:43:21 MST - March Soreness
Oregon urology clinic says NCAA tournament is good time for vasectomy
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:41:58 MST - Teen is 2nd woman since WWII to earn Silver Star
CAMP SALERNO, Afghanistan - A 19-year-old medic from Texas saved the lives of fellow soldiers after a roadside bomb tore through a convoy of Humvees in the eastern Paktia province, the military said.
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:41:54 MST
