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Reuters - Canada will install surveillance cameras
around the National War Memorial in Ottawa after three youths
urinated on the base of the monument late on the July 1 Canada
Day holiday last year.

Reuters - A Dutch farmer watched in disbelief
as a driver under the influence of cocaine drove a slalom
course through his corn field, only to be joined by two police
vehicles in hot pursuit, adding to the damage.

Reuters - A teacher who forced a pupil to
write "I am a retard" 100 times was acquitted by an Italian
court on Wednesday of abuse charges.

Reuters - Two German teenagers robbed a girl but
accidentally left their own pictures behind for police on a
discarded mobile phone.

AP - A cheese carver has accomplished a task that’s a real “Muenster” — or make that a “monster” — in size. Troy Landwehr used his carving tools to turn a 700-pound block of Land O’ Lakes cheddar into a replica of Mount Rushmore.

AP - A man who thought the clerk at a fast-food drive-through was rude for not saying “please” and “thank you” punched her in the face, police said. Duane L. Williams, angered by what he felt was the clerk’s rudeness, walked into the store to complain just before 8 p.m. Wednesday, Penn Hills police Chief […]

AP - She had seen it on TV plenty of times, so for Erin Kemp, wrangling a stray alligator that wandered into her yard was no big deal.

AP - A cheese carver has accomplished a task that’s a real “Muenster” — or make that a “monster” — in size. Troy Landwehr used his carving tools to turn a 700-pound block of Land O’ Lakes cheddar into a replica of Mount Rushmore.

AP - A black bag found in a middle school girls’ locker room contained rotten oranges and not a human fetus, the Dallas County medical examiner reported Friday.

AP - A sharp-eyed airport inspector foiled a plot to ship 20 pounds of cocaine to Panama when he discovered the drugs stuffed inside sets of false teeth.