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  1. This undated image provided by Ketchum pr shows Leo-Hector with a cat cam attached to his collar. Leo-Hector was one of fifty house cats who were given collar cameras that took a photo every 15 minutes. The results put a digital dent in some human theories about catnapping. (AP Photo/Ketchum/ Lyn Thornton)
    What do cats do home alone? Cat cams have answers AP - Thu Dec 3, 3:05 PM ETSent 94 times

    LOS ANGELES - What do cats do when their owners are away? There was one way to find out — "cat cams."

  2. This undated photo provided by the Clayton County Sheriff's Office shows William C. Caldwell III. Police in Morrow, Ga. say Caldwell was dressed in an elf suit Wednesday evening, Dec. 2, 2009 as he waited in line to have his picture taken with Santa Claus at Southlake Mall in suburban Atlanta. When Caldwell reached the front of the line, he told Santa he had dynamite in his bag. Santa called mall security and Caldwell was arrested. (AP Photo/Clayton County Sherriffs Office)
    'Elf' jailed over dynamite hoax on Ga. mall Santa AP - 1 hour, 41 minutes agoSent 79 times

    MORROW, Ga. - A man dressed as an elf is jailed after police in Georgia say he told a mall Santa that he was carrying dynamite.

  3. Texas couple say hen laid egg with cross on it AP - Thu Dec 3, 4:53 PM ETSent 57 times

    BURLESON, Texas - A Fort Worth-area couple said one of their hens laid an egg with a cross on the end of it. Pam and Tracy Norrell of Burleson, who displayed the odd-shaped egg, said they believe it's a sign of encouragement during the holiday season.

  4. Groom creates viral storm twittering from altar Reuters - Thu Dec 3, 2:04 PM ETSent 49 times

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Maryland groom has created an viral story storm after he interrupted his wedding last month to update his Facebook and Twitter accounts from the altar.

  5. Fla. teen allegedly attacks dad for loud snoring AP - Thu Dec 3, 4:19 PM ETSent 35 times

    OLDSMAR, Fla. - A Florida teenager has been charged with assaulting his father, reportedly because the man was snoring too loudly. The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office reported that the teen, 18, first threw a magazine at his father, who was sleeping on a living room couch Tuesday evening. When that didn't work, deputies said the teen pushed his father onto the floor and punched him in the face.

  6. A child touches a statue of Baby Jesus in the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem December 25, 2006. REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun
    Competitive Britons send nativity costs soaring Reuters - Thu Dec 3, 2:02 PM ETSent 25 times

    LONDON (Reuters) - Gone are the days of shepherds in tea towels and tinsel-clad angels. Britain's competitive parents are forking out on luxury pashmina shawls and velour dressing gowns to make their child the star of the annual nativity play.

  7. Police: Woman torched man's porch after breakup AP - Wed Dec 2, 9:05 PM ETSent 22 times

    DETROIT - Detroit authorities said a 29-year-old woman who was upset because her boyfriend broke up with her has been arrested after she lit his porch on fire. Fire Department investigators said neighbors saw the woman pour gas on the concrete porch and light it on fire about 3 a.m. Wednesday.

  8. Peruvian wedding crashed by groom's ex AP - Wed Dec 2, 9:05 PM ETSent 19 times

    LIMA, Peru - Edwin Ortiz was just about to utter "I do," but the mother of his two children and her relatives had a different message: "Oh, no you don't." One moment, the 27-year-old Peruvian was sitting happily in a large wedding hall with 17 other couples, declaring his love for his wife-to-be to TV cameramen in the southern town of Miraflores.

  9. Ohio charity workers find marijuana in donated jug AP - Wed Dec 2, 9:05 PM ETSent 19 times

    MARIETTA, Ohio - Police said whoever donated a water jug to a charity in southeast Ohio probably didn't mean to be so generous. The jug contained about $1,500 worth of marijuana. Police said workers at a local Goodwill Industries site recently found four bags of marijuana when they looked inside a water jug left outside by an anonymous donor.

  10. Space alien search costs AZ school worker his job AP - Wed Dec 2, 9:05 PM ETSent 17 times

    MESA, Ariz. - A former Arizona school district employee is accused of using school computers in an experiment to find space aliens, costing the worker his job and the district more than $1 million.

  11. Jesus Christ dumped from jury pool for disruption AP - Wed Dec 2, 9:05 PM ETSent 14 times

    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Court officials say a Birmingham woman who changed her name to Jesus Christ didn't live up to it when she reported for jury duty this week. The woman, previously named Dorothy Lola Killingworth, was sent to Judge Clyde Jones's courtroom for a criminal case Monday.

  12. Snap-happy Vienna orangutan opens Facebook gallery Reuters - Thu Dec 3, 9:45 AM ETSent 10 times

    VIENNA (Reuters Life!) - A 33-year-old furry photographer is winning fans on social networking website Facebook for pictures of her daily life as an orangutan in a Vienna zoo.

  13. Fellow Iraqi turns tables on Bush shoe-thrower Reuters - Wed Dec 2, 3:44 PM ETSent 9 times

    PARIS (Reuters) - An Iraqi reporter imprisoned for throwing his shoes at President George W. Bush found himself on the receiving end of a similar footwear attack in Paris Tuesday.

  14. Some kids still swallowing soda can safety tabs Reuters - Tue Dec 1, 1:00 PM ETSent 9 times

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - Beverage can tops are still finding their way into the stomachs of some children, especially teens, despite being redesigned in the 1970s to keep people from swallowing them, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

  15. Would-be thief sends merciful NY store owner $50 AP - Thu Dec 3, 4:14 PM ETSent 8 times

    SHIRLEY, N.Y. - A Long Island convenience store owner who showed mercy to a would-be robber said he's received an apology note and $50 in the mail. The unsigned note said it was from the man who tried to rob Mohammad Sohail. It said the would-be robber has a new job, a new child, and is staying out of trouble.

  16. Police: Man hides in Ala. Wal-Mart, takes cash AP - Thu Dec 3, 4:06 PM ETSent 8 times

    FAIRFIELD, Ala. - Fairfield police said a Mississippi man took holiday shopping to another level by hiding in a Wal-Mart and trying to leave with cash. Police said the man hid inside the Walmart on Nov. 25 after it closed at 11 p.m. and took $54,000 in cash and checks. A guard subdued the man when he tried to leave through locked doors. Police said money bags started falling from his clothes as he shook the doors.

  17. Journalists take a close interest in a bicycle on a small road in Schermbeck, near Wesel, western Germany, Tuesday Dec. 1, 2009, after police captured Peter Paul Michalski, the second of two fugitives who escaped from prison in Aachen, last week.  Michalski and Michael Heckhoff, who was recaptured Sunday, were serving sentences for murder and attempted murder respectively.(AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
    Police knock escaped killer off getaway bike Reuters - Tue Dec 1, 12:57 PM ETSent 7 times

    BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's most wanted fugitive was captured Tuesday after a five-day manhunt, when police knocked the escaped murderer off the woman's bicycle he was riding along a rural road near the Dutch border.

  18. Ohio police say man tried to take their candy bars AP - Thu Dec 3, 4:34 PM ETSent 7 times

    CINCINNATI - Talk about sticky fingers: Police arrested a man they say tried to take their candy bars.

  19. John Ziegler, the pastor of the "First Church of Tiger Woods" -- www.tigerwoodsisgod.com -- has announced in a statement on the blog that the organization is being dissolved because of the golfer's "personal sins."(AFP/OFF)
    'Church of Tiger' website disbands over golfer's 'sins' AFP - Thu Dec 3, 2:13 PM ETSent 7 times

    LOS ANGELES (AFP) - The transgressions of Tiger Woods have proved too much to take for one of the golf superstar's most fanatical fans who is now disbanding a church set up in praise of the sports icon.

  20. Iowa woman accused of shoplifting 418 items AP - Thu Dec 3, 5:43 PM ETSent 7 times

    SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - An Iowa woman is accused in a South Dakota shoplifting case that authorities say involved more than just a few items stuffed in a pocket. Sioux Falls police said a 51-year-old woman allegedly took $2,200 worth of items from the Lewis Drug Store, hauling stolen merchandise to her car in bags and then returning to the store for more.

  21. Police: Ohio man used rifle, ax on park gate AP - Wed Dec 2, 9:05 PM ETSent 6 times

    INDIAN HILL, Ohio - Police in southwest Ohio said a man was so angry that a park revoked his privileges that he destroyed the park gate with an assault rifle and an ax. Police said 23-year-old Michael Rosenbaum, of Cincinnati, was arrested Tuesday on charges of vandalism and possession of criminal tools.

  22. Police: Man lies about robbery over fear of wife AP - Tue Dec 1, 9:07 PM ETSent 5 times

    PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. - A Panama City Beach man reportedly admitted to deputies that he lied about being robbed so he wouldn't have to tell his wife that he spent the money. The Bay County Sheriff's Office reported that a 30-year-old man was arrested and charged Friday with making a false report.

  23. N. Korea's first designer jeans on sale in Sweden Reuters - Tue Dec 1, 12:58 PM ETSent 4 times

    STOCKHOLM (Reuters Life!) - Designer jeans labeled "Made in North Korea" will go on sale this Friday at a trendy department store in the Swedish capital, marking a first foray into Western fashion for the reclusive communist state.

  24. Cowboy motorist helps Mass. troopers lasso 2 cows AP - Tue Dec 1, 9:07 PM ETSent 4 times

    SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - Two cows have escaped from a trailer onto a busy Massachusetts highway, but a cowboy stuck in the traffic jam has come to the rescue.

  25. Police: Confused men try to rob Md. funeral home AP - Tue Dec 1, 9:07 PM ETSent 4 times

    PRINCE FREDERICK, Md. - Calvert County authorities are searching for two men who tried to rob a funeral home that they may have mistaken for a bank. Police said the men robbed Lee Funeral Home, next to a PNC Bank, in Owings on Monday. Lt. Steve Jones of the Calvert Investigative Team said an employee told the suspects they weren't in a bank.

  26. Police: Bubble gum bandits walk, talk and steal AP - Thu Dec 3, 4:02 PM ETSent 3 times

    STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. - Police said a pack of bubble gum bandits is walking into suburban Detroit gas stations and chewing through the candy aisle. Police said the latest heist happened Nov. 21, when two suspects chatted up the clerk of a Speedway gas station in Sterling Heights, while a third suspect filched $318 worth of gum.

  27. Shopping couple allegedly leave kids alone in cart AP - Tue Dec 1, 9:07 PM ETSent 3 times

    COMMERCE, Ga. - A Georgia couple got so carried away with snagging Black Friday deals that authorities said they left their kids alone in a shopping cart. Banks County Sheriff Charles Chapman told WSB radio that a 35-year-old man and and 31-year-old woman were charged with reckless conduct.

  28. Police say dresser saved woman, kids from bullet AP - Wed Dec 2, 9:05 PM ETSent 2 times

    UNIONTOWN, Pa. - Police said a dresser positioned near a window kept a bullet from hitting a woman and her two young children as they slept at a southwestern Pennsylvania housing project. Uniontown police said Tina Schoch was sleeping with her 2-year-old and infant sons when a bullet pierced her window late Saturday at the Pershing Court complex.

  29. Two volunteers in a former monkey cage and dressed as cavemen, are photographed by a visitor at the zoo in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, Nov. 27, 2009. The zoo has opened a week-long display where two volunteers - a man and a woman - spend time in the cage to remind visitors that humans are animals too. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
    Caged 'cavemen' go on display at Warsaw zoo AP - Fri Nov 27, 10:53 AM ETSent 2 times

    WARSAW, Poland - Visitors to Warsaw's zoo are being greeted by two "Homo sapiens" peering out from a cage — humans in animal skins trying to spark interest in man's caveman ancestors.

  30. The Colosseum is seen in the background as taxi drivers block the famous Fori Imperiali road in downtown Rome, November 29, 2007. REUTERS/Dario Pignatelli
    Rome taxis seek to wipe out tourist scams Reuters - Mon Nov 30, 3:45 PM ETSent 2 times

    ROME (Reuters Life!) - Rome's largest taxi cooperative is trying to improve the bad name of the city's cabbies, notorious among tourists to one of the world's best loved cities.