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42 min ago | CBS Local

St. Paul Police: Suspect Arrested In 4-Year-Old Boy Hit & Run

PAUL, Minn. - A St. Paul man is in custody on Sunday after leaving the scene of an accident in which he struck a 4-year-old boy with his motorcycle .

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4 hrs ago | WTLV

Alberto brings strange mix of record lows, showers, and squalls

I'm meteorologist Mike Prangley. Tropical storm Alberto will bring a few squalls of wind and rain to areas mainly north and east of Jacksonville through the evening.

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9 hrs ago | Daily Mail

'Joyful, weird and wacky': Family pays tribute to pastor shot dead at his church by a homeless woman

A woman described as homeless fatally shot a young pastor in his church on Saturday morning and later confessed to the slaying to detectives, police said.

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13 hrs ago | www.neatorama.com | NightSerf

Man Exposes Himself at Association for the Blind

We've posted a lot of stories about crimes that didn't turn out as the perpetrators expected, you know, dumb criminal stories.

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14 hrs ago | Patch.com

Stoga LAX Makes Offbeat Highlights Video Reel

Conestoga High School Graduate, Berwyn native, and 2012 Superbowl Champion Mark Herzlich knows a thing or two about good sports events.

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18 hrs ago | Weird Asia News

'Pussy-high Miniskirt' the Newest Craze in China

When a Chinese model tweeted that "some little guy" does not want to her to wear "pussy-high miniskirts," it became an Internet meme in China.

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22 hrs ago | CBS Local

WaterCooler: College Student From Cohasset, On Graduation

At the WBZ Water Cooler: It's college graduation season, and we talked with a Bryant University student, Eric MacCarthy, about what it's like to be closing his college career.

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Sat May 19, 2012

Daily Mail

Why did a 74-year-old grandmother shoot and kill her teenage...

West Bloomfield police are investigating the circumstances that led to the slaying, which took place on Friday night in a posh, gated condo complex near Halsted and Maple roads.

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Related Topix: Farmington Hills, MI

The Kansas City Star

Cocker spaniel rescued from 30-foot fall into well

Deputy sheriffs and rescue personnel in South Carolina have reunited a 4-year-old cocker spaniel with her family after she fell down a 30-foot well.The Anderson Independent-Mail reports that the dog, Reese, wanted to see what her family members were doing as they worked to repair a home well.

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Related Topix: Anderson County, SC

Denver Post

Ouch! Dog bites politician but she gets a vote

A woman running for the Michigan Legislature was bitten by a dog while going door to door.

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Related Topix: Saginaw County, MI

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Ohio woman charged with murder in bizarre stabbing

This home on East 125th Street in Cleveland that Sharice Swain crashed into sits damaged Friday, May 18, 2012.

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OregonLive.com

Ohio woman charged with murder in bizarre stabbing

Police say an Ohio woman has been charged with murder in the stabbing death of her friend, who tried to drive away afterward and fatally struck the accused woman's 2-year-old daughter.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News

WRIC-TV Richmond

Ohio woman charged with murder in bizarre stabbing

Mary Richardson Kennedy had been close to the Kennedys for much of her life, as a teenage friendship led to a marriage into one of America's most famous families.

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Related Topix: Ben Ainslie, Summer Sports

Anorak

The sounds of noisy sex in Salford are a hit on the prudish web

LEE Moore made a 26-second-long recording of his neighbours having sex in Salford, Greater Manchester.

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Related Topix: Greater Manchester County, England, United Kingdom

WSTC-AM Norwalk

Man's defibrillator stops knife during attack

San Diego police say the 57-year-old got into an argument with an acquaintance early Thursday near some elevators at the trolley station for the Fashion Valley shopping mall.

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KFSN

Portland brothers accused of armed robbery on bicycles

Portland police arrested two brothers following an armed robbery near the east end of the St.

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Fri May 18, 2012

Sky News

See You Later Alligator: Zoo Man's Lucky Escape

An American zoologist has been attacked by a 10ft-long alligator as he tried to capture it from beside a highway.

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KXAN-TV Austin

Woman learns toll of flesh-eating bug

A young Georgia woman fighting a flesh-eating bacteria has learned she will lose her hands and remaining foot, and responded by saying "Let's do this." Her father recounted the conversation in an update on his Facebook page Friday.

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WLFI-TV West Lafayette

Man robs store with underwear on head

Police in southwest Idaho say a man chose briefs over boxers to wear on his head as he held up a coffee shop and stole a safe.

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amog.com | Burento

Biography of Shoes

When you're getting to go about your in the morning have you ever stopped and wondered where and when did shoes come from? Even if you haven't, the origins of shoes is a rather interesting one.

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