AP - Acting to protect her dog, 80-year-old Martha Smith killed a mountain lion at her home along French Creek near Fairburn. She missed with her first shot, went into the house to call 911, then went back outside with a .22-caliber rifle.
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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 grocery.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Reuters - A groping Santa, a drunken car
chase, a bloody punchout. Festivities in Antarctica got a
little out of hand this Christmas.
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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 afternoon, Idaho Power officials said.
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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.
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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.
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Reuters - The United States, concerned about
tainted imports from China, has exported its own batch of
potentially harmful goods to Beijing in the form of mice on a
flight from Washington, state media said on Tuesday.
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