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AP - A woman whose diamond ring vanished while she was making fudge for a bake sale was despondent after scouring her home and finding no sign of it.

AP - They’re not as loaded as Leona Helmsley’s pooch, but three Maryland canines are plenty rich enough to live high on the dog.

AP - Local police said it was a typical holiday Grinch tale: A home was broken into on Christmas Eve, and wrapped presents were stolen off a kitchen table.

AP - Anthony Aldrich II can already claim to be the king of popcorn salesmen in the Boy Scouts after leading the nation in sales last year. Now the 14-year-old wants to become the first to do it two straight years.

AP - For nearly seven years Melina Salazar did her best to put on a smile and tend to the every need of her most loyal and cantankerous customer.

AP - It’s taken 40 years, but this southwest Louisiana village no longer bears the mark of the beast.

AP - Hello Kitty is no sexist.

Reuters - Liquor makers in China are demanding
that a city regulation barring public servants and Communist
Party officials from the Chinese version of a three martini
lunch be revoked, a newspaper reported on Thursday.

Reuters - A New Zealand woman who pulled apart
a Christmas cracker got more than the party hat and joke she
had expected, finding a dead mouse.

Reuters - Shoppers got a Christmas Eve surprise
on Monday when a pair of brothers handed out $100 bills at a
mall on Long Island, New York.