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AP - A man pushed his Ford Mustang down a mountain as part of a scheme to claim it was stolen, authorities said.

AP - It wasn’t Santa Claus but a would-be burglar that rescue workers found stuck up a chimney in central Australia on Friday.

AP - A three-pound Chihuahua mix named Tink helped police put a fugitive in the clink.

AP - Sam Haskins didn’t ask for a fur coat for Christmas. But he got six of them.

AP - One of the most famously flawed stamps in U.S. history sold for $825,000 to a New York man who bought it slightly cheaper than the record price another “Inverted Jenny” copy fetched at auction last month.

AP - A fire station crew must be a little embarrassed by the way some of this state’s famous potatoes got fried.

AP - Friends of an artist were handed envelopes containing her ashes at her memorial service and given a task: Spread the ashes wherever they felt appropriate.

AP - A small monkey stashed in a man’s hat during a flight to New York has died, but federal health authorities don’t know why.

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.