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No medals for Dunfermline mascot's Olympic gold tribute
A FOOTBALL mascot has been reprimanded by club bosses after "sledging" down a flight of stairs in tribute to the gold medal-winning performance in the skeleton bob a
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New currency planned for the Borders to help boost local business
A TOWN in the Borders is to launch its own currency to try to boost the local economy.
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Prisoner suspected in theft of body
A JAILED rapist and killer known as Al Capone is suspected of masterminding the theft of the body of Cyprus's former president from his prison cell.
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Police: Burglar uses church equipment to view porn
Second-degree burglary charges have been filed against an Ames man who broke into a church where he allegedly used the institution's electronic equipment to watch pornography. Police allege the 55-year-old man broke into the First Christian Church on Thursday. After gathering items from around the building, he is believed to have gone to the basement to spend the night.
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Mystery knitter outfitting tree branches, lamp poles
WEST CAPE MAY, N.J. - Someone is spinning quite a yarn over one New Jersey shore town.
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Conan's Twitter following turns teen's life upside down
CONWAY TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Last week, Sarah Killen had three Twitter followers.
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Boy on 911 call: 'Bring cops . . . and soldiers too'
NORWALK, Calif. - Detectives on Wednesday searched for three armed robbers who broke into a home and threatened the parents of a 7-year-old boy who called 911 from a locked bathroom.
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Okla. electric crews say bobcat caused outage
Oklahoma Gas and Electric officials said a pole climbing bobcat is to blame for a power outage in southern Oklahoma OG&E spokesman Brian Alford said repair crews found the smoldering body of the bobcat Tuesday at the top of a utility pole in Johnston County. The power outage left about 3,100 customers without power about 9:30 p.m. and power was ...
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Police: Drunk woman lets 14-year-old son drive
A 37-year-old woman was accused of putting her 14-year-old behind the wheel because she was too drunk to drive. The woman was arrested Saturday after Washington County Sheriff's deputies stopped a vehicle on U.S. Highway 75 because of erratic driving. Deputies found the woman's 14-year-old son in the driver's seat and two other minors -- ages 14 and 17 -- ...
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Midnight knitter pulls the wool over NJ shore town
Someone is spinning quite a yarn over one New Jersey shore town. An unknown person dubbed The Midnight Knitter by West Cape May residents is covering tree branches and lamp poles with little sweaters under cover of darkness.
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Canada Parliament eats seal to defy "ignorant" EU (Reuters)
Reuters - Canadian parliamentarians tucked into a meal of seal meat on Wednesday to defy both animal right activists and the European Union, which has banned imports of seal products.
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"Dead" baby elephant calf born alive in Sydney zoo (Reuters)
Reuters - An elephant gave birth to a calf at Sydney's main zoo on Wednesday, surprising vets and keepers who two days earlier declared the baby had died in the womb.
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Air Canada learns that hockey trumps flying (Reuters)
Reuters - Canada's largest airline has learned it sometimes has to take a back seat to the country's biggest sporting passion, ice hockey, the head of Air Canada said on Tuesday.
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New Zealander auctions "ghosts" in a bottle (Reuters)
Reuters - A New Zealand woman sold two vials that she said contained the ghosts of an old man and a young girl for almost NZ$2,000 ($1,410) after a fiercely contested online auction, local media reported.
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Police: Robber holds up 11 people, gets $6
THERMAL, Calif. - They say crime doesn't pay. For one robber in California, it did - but not much.
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Newly discovered colony could save Tasmanian devil from extinction
ADELAIDE, Australia - The discovery of a genetically distinct colony of Tasmanian devils may save the species from being wiped out by a contagious cancer that has decimated the population, Australian scientists said Wednesday.
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Conviction for driver who ran over duck overturned
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. - A judge has overturned the verdict against a Massachusetts man convicted of running over a duck walking her ducklings across a mall parking lot, and prosecutors say they will not appeal.
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Book examines why people go ice fishing
GRAND FORKS, N.D. - Twin Cities author Greg Breining made a swing across northwestern Minnesota last week reading excerpts from his 2008 book, ''A Hard-Water World: Ice Fishing and Why We Do It.''
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Police: Calif. robber holds up 11 people, gets $6
They say crime doesn't pay. For one robber in California, it did -- but not much. Authorities in Riverside County say a woman with a gun robbed 11 customers at a market and got away with $6.
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Cyprus holds two for theft of ex-leader's corpse (Reuters)
Reuters - A court in Cyprus remanded two men in custody Wednesday on suspicion of snatching the corpse of former Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos, holding it for ransom for three months until its discovery Monday.
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