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WASHINGTON, Pa. (AP) — Police say that two men armed with hammers robbed a Pennsylvania jewelry store while employees were helping customers that included young children. KDKA-TV reports employees told police the men went into Kay Jewelers

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — An opossum has taken up residence in the ceiling of a Duke University dorm, where students have been complaining about being bitten by fleas. The school’s assistant vice president of student affairs, Joe

HIMMELPFORT, Germany (AP) — Santa Claus is at it again, answering thousands of Christmas letters from children around the world at a special post office in the northern German town of Himmelpfort. As part of the annual

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A federal court is allowing a Kentucky man to personalize a license plate with the phrase “IM GOD” after a three-year legal battle over the custom engraving. Court documents show Ben Hart, a

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook says it removed 3.2 billion fake accounts from its service from April to September, up slightly from 3 billion in the previous six months. Nearly all of the bogus accounts were caught

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office is investigating how a man gained access to a deputy’s patrol vehicle in South Lake Tahoe and took it for a joyride in the Sierra

CAPE LOOKOUT, N.C. (AP) — A trio of castaway cows has been discovered on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, where they apparently washed up after swimming for miles to escape Hurricane Dorian ’s storm surge. Cape Lookout National

JACKSON, Mo. (AP) — A rescued puppy is attracting a lot of attention because of his cute resemblance to a unicorn. The nearly 10-week-old puppy, named Narwhal, has a tail-like appendage growing from his forehead. Narwhal was

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A New Jersey man who illegally bought a tiger skin rug years after being told it was a crime to do so has been sentenced to one day in jail. The U.S. attorney’s office

CHICAGO (AP) — Hyatt Hotels Corp. is the latest hotel company to say it’s removing small bottles from its bathrooms in an effort to reduce waste. Hyatt says it is shifting to large, multi-use bottles for shampoo,

HUDSON, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a 21-year-old Florida man was so angry about losing several thousand dollars in a card game that he set the other man’s car on fire with him inside. A Pasco County

  A bride in Plant City, Florida asked her bridesmaids to hold puppies instead of flowers at her wedding to encourage pet adoption. (Nov. 12)

Russian carrier Aeroflot has stripped a passenger of his air miles for breaching its rules by sneaking his overweight cat aboard a flight.  Mikhail Galin, 34, took his cat Viktor on board flight SU1702, from Moscow to Vladivostok,

DEMAREST, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey woman has sued a country club for $30,000 after a waiter spilled wine on her luxury handbag. The Alpine Country Club, in turn, is suing the waiter. Maryana Beyder says

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Hospital officials say a deer crashed through a window of a Tennessee medical center, alarming patients in the waiting room. WATE-TV reports that three patients at Tennova’s North Knoxville Medical Center had to

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Officials in a North Carolina school system had to warn parents not to use Google to search for two schools because the results included explicit images. The News & Observer of Raleigh reports

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Police in Kentucky say they’ve arrested a prolific thief, a man who they say broke into 17 homes within a few miles of each other. Police say he wasn’t going for high-end appliances,

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army’s use of a China-owned video app called TikTok as part of a new campaign to recruit young people into the service is raising concerns on Capitol Hill. Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer 0f

By NQOBILE NTSHANGASE Associated Press MOSSEL BAY, South Africa (AP) — The makers of a South African gin infused with elephant dung swear their use of the animal’s excrement is no gimmick. The creators of Indlovu Gin,

On August 21, 2010 I threw a message in a bottle into the ocean from a beach in Rockport, MA. On October 10, 2019 that letter was found on the beach in France. I am mind blown.

CHINCOTEAGUE, Va. (AP) — A gourmet grocery store on Virginia’s Eastern Shore is selling a bottle of beer that costs $230. It’s also so full of alcohol that it’s illegal in more than a dozen states. The

HOBART, Ind. (AP) — A group of northwestern Indiana firefighters has cleaned and returned a fired-damaged American flag to the family of a Korean War veteran. After a January fire gutted his Hobart apartment, Steven Paul asked

DENVER (AP) — The city of Denver has agreed to pay $300,000 to a United Airlines pilot who was arrested on an indecent exposure charge that was later dismissed by a judge. KMGH-TV reports that Andrew Collins’