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| Teen claims spiders saved her from fire |
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HEMLOCK, Mich. - A woman who hates spiders is crediting them with helping save her from a house fire. Danielle Vigue, 18, says she awoke early Tuesday to find spiders in her room, and started killing them. When more showed up, she says she went across the hall and got into bed with her 15-year-old sister, Lauren.
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| Everyone grand prize winners in car promotion |
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ROSWELL, N.M. - Everyone's a winner after a direct-mail marketing company hired by a local car dealership mistakenly sent out 50,000 scratch-off tickets to residents — all of them declaring the ticket-holder the $1,000 grand prize winner. Just one of the tickets was supposed to be the grand prize winner.
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| Casino blames players for lucky slot machine |
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ELIZABETH, Ind. - Prosecutors are considering criminal charges against casino gamblers who won big on a slot machine that had been installed with faulty software.
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| Oops! Town leaders burn down own building |
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FORT HILL, Pa. - A trash fire started by township supervisors burned down their municipal building, authorities said.
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| No small thing to settle $1.63 tax dispute |
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SLIDELL, La. - An anonymous benefactor helped settle a long-standing lawsuit in which a land company claimed ownership of a house sold without the residents’ knowledge over a $1.63 tax bill.
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| Mystery solved! UFO is stray woodchipper part |
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BAYONNE, N.J. - A hunk of metal that crashed through the roof of a home had NASA and Federal Aviation Administration officials scratching their heads.
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| Firefighters in training cut into wrong roof |
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BRAINTREE, Mass. - It looked like a textbook training exercise, but there was something amiss. Firefighters drove to a vacant house on Tuesday, cut holes in the roof and walls, and broke windows to test their tools and their proficiency.
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| Thieves steal $112,998, leave $2 for police |
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VAN BUREN, Ark. - Thieves plucked a two-ton vault from a bank with a fork lift, then ditched it several miles north of the city — with $2 inside, police said.
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| 3 naked bicyclists arrested on Seattle ride |
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SEATTLE - Cyclists in the Seattle Naked Bike Ride are chafing at the arrest of three of their number in the annual protest against pollution and pants.
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| Judge won’t reconsider $54 million pants suit |
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WASHINGTON - A customer who sued his dry cleaner for $54 million over a missing pair of pants has been denied in his efforts to get the judge in the widely mocked case to reconsider her decision.
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| You ain’t nothin’ but a sandstone ... |
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ESTES PARK, Colo. - You can't think about rock without thinking of Elvis. Not this rock, anyway. Rock collector LaDell Alexander, 60, has found a stone she swears has the face of Elvis Presley on it.
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