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AP - Tween queen Miley Cyrus’ pets Roadie and Loco are top dogs. Roadie, a Yorkie, and Loco, a Shih Tzu, clawed their way to the summit of the Most Eligible Pets list put out by Animal Fair magazine. Readers’ votes were announced Tuesday, and the list appears in the magazine’s winter issue, on newsstands […]

Reuters - Two Czechs stuck in a billiard table
while searching for a ball had to call the fire squad and were
freed only when rescuers took the table apart, a newspaper
reported on Tuesday.

Reuters - Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez in an
interview with supermodel Naomi Campbell predicted that the U.S
“empire” is about to fall, called Jesus Christ history’s No. 1
revolutionary — and offered to pose topless.

AP - A cat picked the wrong place to come in from the cold, and caused a power outage that blacked out more than 12,000 homes and businesses. The cat entered an electrical substation, snuggled up to a warm transformer and contacted a live circuit, causing a short that blew out nine feeder lines Monday […]

Reuters - A groping Santa, a drunken car
chase, a bloody punchout. Festivities in Antarctica got a
little out of hand this Christmas.

Reuters - A Houston-area man was killed in a
hunting accident after his dog stepped on a loaded shotgun in
the back of a pick-up truck, triggering a blast that pierced
the vehicle and the hunter’s leg, a local sheriff said.

Reuters - A fluorescent green Chinese pig has
given birth to two piglets which share their mother’s
transgenic characteristic after she mated with an ordinary pig,
state media said.

AP - A man who mailed a bloody cow’s head to his wife’s lover has been sentenced to probation and community service. Jason Michael Fife “understands that in a civilized society a person cannot send a severed cow’s head to anybody,” said his defense lawyer, Henry Hilles.

AP - Police say a Bucks County man released pending a theft hearing is accused of immediately stealing a car and driving away. Officials say 22-year-old Donald Strohm Jr. of East Rockhill Township had just been arraigned Monday on charges of stealing more than $1,000 worth of razor blades and over-the-counter medications from a Quakertown […]

Reuters - A new law meant to help crack down on
young Canadian street racers in their souped up cars has nabbed
an octogenarian in his Oldsmobile.