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'Hump Day' Craze Infects Conn. Middle School
So many kids at a Connecticut middle school are repeating a commercial catchphrase that teachers and adminstrators have had to take action to keep it from becoming a major distraction. (Oct. 7)
RI 7th-grader appeals suspension for gun keychain
The family of a Rhode Island seventh-grader who was suspended for three days for having a small toy gun keychain at school is appealing the suspension. WJAR-TV (http://bit.ly/198ZOTV ) reports the family of Joseph Lyssikatos (lis-ih-KAH'-tos) is appealing Monday to the superintendent in the town of Coventry. Joseph was suspended ...
Dozens play chess in public to defy SF crackdown
At least for an afternoon, the chess players were back at the usual spot they've occupied for years along downtown San Francisco's busy Market Street. But instead of hustling a dollar here and a dollar there with deft openings and clever traps, the mostly homeless players and their supporters were ...
Yale searches for stinker adding feces to dryers
Yale University hopes to solve a case of whodungit by identifying the stinker who has been soiling students' laundry by sticking human feces inside clothes dryers. The culprit has been dubbed the "poopetrator" and is being blamed for at least four incidents in the past month in the laundry room ...
Spanish shepherds guide 2,000 sheep through Madrid
Shepherds led a flock of 2,000 sheep through Madrid on Sunday in defense of ancient grazing, droving and migration rights increasingly threatened by urban sprawl and modern agricultural practices. Tourists were surprised to see downtown traffic cut to permit the ovine parade to bleat — bells clanking — across some ...
Oregon bartender gets $17,500 tip
An Oregon bartender just got the tip of a lifetime. One of Aurora Kephart's regulars at Conway's Restaurant and Lounge in Springfield often tips her with Keno tickets from the Oregon Lottery. On Tuesday evening, the man who wishes to remain anonymous asked Kephart to choose two. When she checked ...
Volunteers, port-a-potties help Salem in shutdown
The partial federal government shutdown is riling witches and visitors alike in the Massachusetts city that held the notorious witch trials of 1692, where officials have lined up dozens of volunteers and some portable toilets to replace services lost when the National Park Service closed its visitor center. Salem Mayor ...
Stitch-by-stitch; knitting live on Norway TV
In its latest experiment with live coverage of mundane events, Norway's public broadcasting network plans to dedicate five hours of air-time to an attempt to break the knitting world record. The NRK network says the Nov. 1 broadcast will be preceded by a four-hour documentary on how the wool off ...
NY police: 70-ft.-long mobile home stolen from lot
Police in a rural upstate New York town are looking for a 70-foot-long mobile home that was stolen from a diner's parking lot. The Washington County sheriff's office tells The Post-Star of Glens Falls (http://bit.ly/GB2i3D ) that the mobile home had been placed on a trailer that was parked at ...
Raw: White Lion Cub Debuts at Serbia Zoo
A female white lion cub born at Belgrade Zoo in Serbia was shown to the media on Thursday. The cub, yet to be named, was born last Thursday and weighs 2.8 pounds. The mother, lioness Masha, came to Belgrade zoo from South Africa's Kruger Pa...
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