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Woman pays off old parking ticket
CALUMET, Mich. - Better late than never. An unidentified woman has paid off a parking ticket she got in Calumet, Michigan, on September 1st, 1976. Police in the Upper Michigan town had long ago written off the one-dollar ticket and were surprised when it showed up in the mail, along with ...
Sunday , May 11, 2008

Hundreds strip for naked photo shoot in Austria, latest work of NY photographer
VIENNA, Austria - The man behind the camera had three requests for his subjects: no sunglasses, no smiling and no underwear. The latest work by New York photographer Spencer Tunick attracted 1,840 people, baring it all in Austria’s Happel Stadium on Sunday. Tunick’s instructions to his su...
Sunday , May 11, 2008

Chicago students seek Obama’s haircut, speedy spud, Weird Al
CHICAGO - Dozens of students from the University of Chicago returned Sunday from a four-day multistate trek dubbed the world’s largest scavenger hunt. The list of 269 items includes having "a Nobel Prize winner or ’Weird Al’ Yankovic witness your organ donor registration" and trying to get...
Sunday , May 11, 2008

Michigan youngster collects a million pennies for his school
CARLETON, Mich. - A Michigan school has a million thanks to give to a fourth-grader. Ten-year-old Andrew Niemi of Carleton has been collecting pennies since a day after Christmas in 2006. He held fundraisers to reach his goal of one million. Niemi finally picked up his last cent in March. ...
Saturday , May 10, 2008

SpongeBob SquarePants image painted on historic Colorado cabin
MONUMENT, Colo. - The U.S. Forest Service is looking for the "SpongeBob fanatics" who painted the cartoon character on the chimney of a historic building in Colorado. The three-metre-tall painting of Nickelodeon character SpongeBob SquarePants turned up on a cabin in the Pike National Fore...
Saturday , May 10, 2008