Okla. rattlesnake roundup pitches ‘family-friendly’ fun
Snakes headline the Rattlesnake Derby festival that brings an estimated 35,000 visitors each year to Mangum, Okla., to jolt the …
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Outhouses cushion small plane crash in Wash state
PUYALLUP, Wash. (AP) — A small airplane dropping from the sky after its engine failed wound up on a cushioning bunch of portable toilets – and the pilot was able to walk away apparently unhurt….
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Police: driver caused $26K damages, arrested
FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — Police say a woman arrested in Nebraska on suspicion of drunken driving hit fences, garages and a house as she left a $26,000 trail of destruction.
Sgt. Ed Watts says the woman’s car struck a fence while she was trying to turn into an alley Thursday night. He says the car next hit a utility pole and then a garage while trying to turn into it. Wyatt says the car then crossed a yard, rammed a fence and hit a house and garage.
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Couple arrested for sex on lawn at Windsor Castle
LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II was at home at Windsor Castle, the sentries who guard her were on duty, and the large park surrounding the magnificent building was full of tourists on a Sunday afternoon. So it didn’t take long for people to realize that something was out of order when an inebriated couple arrived from a nearby restaurant and began having sex on a grass bank outside the castle, according to witnesses….
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Elderly man arrested in Italy for coke in oranges
ROME (AP) — The elderly man claimed he needed the oranges in his suitcase to keep up his vitamin C level, but Italian police soon realized the “C” stood for cocaine….
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Boogie birdie: Animals shown to ‘dance’ to music
NEW YORK (AP) — They wouldn’t blow away the competition on “Dancing with the Stars,” but it turns out that some birds got rhythm. After studying a cockatoo that grooves to the Backstreet Boys and about 1,000 YouTube videos, scientists say they’ve documented for the first time that some animals “dance” to a musical beat….
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