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GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) — It would have been a glowing moment of triumph. But an effort to break a world record for the most sparklers lit at once has fizzled — because of a technicality. People in

A shoplifter trying to get away from a DeLand store stripped naked and steaks tumbled out of his pants, police said. Police found a Stefan Short, 28, of DeLand, running out of the store in the buff,

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Imagine spending part of your honeymoon in handcuffs — and not in a kinky kind of way. That was the fate of a Louisiana woman who was led from her post-nuptial celebration

LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — Birds do it. Bees do it. And, as people near a lake in Florida found out the other day, so do snakes — in large groups. Authorities in Lakeland shut down a section

  PLYMOUTH INDIANA – via WRSW Two Asian men were denied a hotel room at a Super 8 Inn as well as a Days Inn in Plymouth this week over fears of the coronavirus. Kaopra Lor and

DETROIT (AP) — There are a lot of things you can call a man who decided to swim from Canada to the U.S. to make sure his homemade books arrived before Christmas. But his lawyer says “dangerous”

BERLIN (AP) — Some marriage proposals go viral. This one went aerial. A German man literally spelled out his intentions to marry his girlfriend by planting a field of corn so the gaps between the stalks spelled

NEELTJE JANS, Netherlands (AP) — You know how heavy winds can affect a car or truck on a highway — imagine being buffeted by hurricane-force winds while on a bicycle. That was the unhappy fate for a

MIAMI (The Miami Herald) — A pack of peacocks that has wreaked havoc on a Miami neighborhood will soon be relocated after city commissioners sided with residents and agreed to have the birds taken away. The commission’s

BRISTOL, Va. (AP) — An orphaned black bear cub was placed with a foster mother this week after the baby was rescued by a pet dog and carried gently to safety. A wildlife biologist with the Virginia

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The digging of a swimming pool has revealed a potentially dangerous discovery. News outlets report workers thought they found a Civil War cannonball in Charleston on Wednesday afternoon. Police say it was actually

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — More than 250 government-run schools in the United Arab Emirates are done with homework. The National newspaper reports that, starting next week, the Education Ministry is abolishing homework in public schools

NASHVILLE TN (AP) – Authorities in Tennessee say they busted a well-organized burglar after he allegedly dropped a notebook containing a list of other places he planned to target. Davidson County court records accuse 49-year-old Robert Shull

  LOCUST, NC (AP) – A suspect escaped from a hit and run in a North Carolina McDonald’s parking lot last month. But police aren’t looking for who’s responsible. It turns out the object Ken Worthy saw

PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — A cannabis syllabus? A university in Colorado says yes. Colorado State University will be offering a pot-related degree program, after getting approval from the state. The program will begin this fall at the

LAS VEGAS (AP) — People who’ve been thwarted in getting their drivers licenses because they can’t parallel park might want to steer their way to Nevada. State officials have eliminated the parallel parking part of its driving

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — It’s the big bang fact. A huge fireworks shell has blasted its way into the record books. A shell was launched over a ski resort in Steamboat Springs, Colorado — and it

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A good Samaritan used the power of social media to track down the owner of a stolen pink purse. The Times-Picayune / The New Orleans Advocate reports that 23-year-old Saarah Yob of Florida,

BRANDON, Fla. (AP) — Dogs can be great companions — but one Florida man decided to make his pooch a partner in crime. Authorities in Brandon, Florida say a man and his puppy were taken into custody

CAMDEN, N.C. (AP) — It’s a mystery that a North Carolina man is still trying to solve. Cornelius Williams says he went grocery shopping Tuesday night. When he returned, he found a cardboard box in his walkway,

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president feels his citizens don’t care as much about their nation’s history as they should. But his effort to change that may trigger a historically negative response. Andrés Manuel López Obrador is