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    <title><![CDATA[   Robbers in drag get millions in Paris jewel theft ]]></title>
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        Armed robbers - some disguised as women - snatched euro85 million ($108 million) worth of diamond rings, necklaces and luxury watches from a Harry Winston boutique on a posh Paris avenue in one of the largest jewel heists in history, officials said Friday.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   To be or not to be taxed: Strip shows get a break ]]></title>
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        The Dutch Supreme Court has decided sex shows should be thought of as theater - at least when it comes to taxes.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   NJ woman sues Pa. sports bar for toilet seat break ]]></title>
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        A woman is suing a Pennsylvania sports bar and restaurant, saying she got stuck inside a toilet bowl for 20 minutes after the seat broke.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Man allegedly assaults girlfriend with burger ]]></title>
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        A Vero Beach man faces a domestic violence charge after authorities said he assaulted his girlfriend with a cheeseburger. An Indian River County Sheriff&#39;s Office arrest report said a 22-year-old man and his girlfriend got into an argument as they sat in a car in front of their home.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Leaving on a jet plane? Texas airport has karaoke ]]></title>
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        Leaving on a jet plane? Is the waiting the hardest part? Try airport karaoke! Houston&#39;s Bush International Airport is setting up karaoke booths for travelers, just in time for the holidays. One was to be up and running on Thursday afternoon, airport officials said.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Woman gets probation for setting tow truck on fire ]]></title>
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        A 20-year-old woman received two years probation for setting a tow truck on fire as it was rolling away from an apartment complex with a car. A Multnomah County judge also ordered Elizabeth Allen to complete alcohol treatment, 80 hours of community service and a mental health evaluation.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Shoplifting suspect uses Taser on Wal-Mart worker ]]></title>
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        Two suspected shoplifters are arrested after one of them zapped a Wichita Wal-Mart employee with a Taser. Police said that two Wal-Mart workers on Wednesday afternoon confronted a pair of women who tried to leave the store without paying for merchandise. At that point, one of the women fired an electroshock from the Taser.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Man allegedly attacks speed camera with pickax ]]></title>
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        A 26-year-old man faces criminal charges after being accused of using a pickax to attack a speed enforcement camera recently installed along a Phoenix-area freeway.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Urn left at Helping Hands charity in Arkansas ]]></title>
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        Usually when a charity wants a donor to return, the agency is seeking another contribution. Helping Hands in Bentonville wants the person who left what&#39;s apparently a funerary urn to come back and get it.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Man uses candy cane to subdue attacker with knife ]]></title>
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        A man using a candy cane lawn ornament fended off a knife-wielding neighbor who had been attacking holiday guests at a Sacramento home. Police spokesman Sgt. Norm Leong said the man used the two-foot-tall plastic ornament to subdue the attacker until officers arrived.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Ohio artist offers legless Santa and crazed tree ]]></title>
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        A northern Ohio artist known for envelope-pushing holiday displays is back - with Santa Claus in a wheelchair being pushed down stairs by a crazed tree.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Camels found wandering in Mexican border city ]]></title>
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        It may have seemed like a mirage: Two camels nibbling on a pine tree along a street in this desert metropolis on the Texas border. Police tried lassoing the animals, which lunged at the officers with snapping teeth as onlookers chuckled.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Fla. man accused of making boy drive on beer run ]]></title>
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        Authorities in southwest Florida say an intoxicated man had his 9-year-old son take him on a beer run. Cape Coral police arrested the 27-year-old man last week, after seeing a pickup truck drive onto a median.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Customer spots cook butchering deer in pizzeria ]]></title>
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        A Pennsylvania pizzeria insists venison is not on the menu - despite the impression a customer may have gotten when she saw one of the cooks butchering a deer in the shop&#39;s kitchen.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   The one that didn't get away yields long-lost ring ]]></title>
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        The one that didn&#39;t get away held an unlikely surprise for a Texas man. The blue-stoned class ring of Joe Richardson, engraved with his name, turned up inside an 8-pound bass 21 years after he lost it while fishing on Lake Sam Rayburn.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   RI man bags mutant, 4-clawed lady lobster ]]></title>
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        A lady lobster with four claws was pulled from the deep this week in the waters off Newport. With a large crusher claw and three pincher claws - instead of the usual one - the crustacean was unlike anything 39-year-old lobsterman Patrick Marks had ever seen in his 14 years catching the creatures.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Ghost tour spooked after car plows into group ]]></title>
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        Things got a little spookier than expected during a ghost tour when a driver lost control of her car and plowed into the group. The Charleston Post and Courier reported two people suffered minor injuries in the Tuesday night accident near Charleston&#39;s famous Four Corners of Law at Meeting and Broad streets.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Want jail credit? Just clean up blood, vomit, etc. ]]></title>
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        Milwaukee County jail inmates can knock an hour off their sentence for each hour they spend on some dirty work - cleaning up blood, feces, saliva and other bodily fluids at the House of Correction and Criminal Justice Facility.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Man arrested for lighting grill in apartment ]]></title>
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        Police arrested a 44-year-old man who lit a small charcoal grill inside his apartment, endangering his neighbors. Police charged him with second-degree reckless endangerment after two people became ill.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Man jumps into cab of moving pickup to stop theft ]]></title>
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        A man who saw his pickup truck being stolen jumped into the bed of the moving vehicle, kicked out the back window and crawled into the cab to stop the thief. Police said the woman who stole the truck then jumped out and hopped into her boyfriend&#39;s car, which the truck owner chased until officers intervened.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Cat lost in Yellowstone returned to Texas family ]]></title>
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        A cat lost in Yellowstone National Park in August has been returned to her family in Houston with the help of some West Yellowstone residents. Philip Wattenbarger and his family were camping in a trailer in the West Yellowstone area when their long-haired tabby, Fluffy, went missing on Aug. 1.      
    
  

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