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A small northeastern Georgia town's population boom is, well, scary.* In a bid to break a world record, residents are building hundreds of scarecrows .

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A 15-pound cocker spaniel-poodle mix named Pawlee scared off a mother bear and her two cubs Sunday morning after they strayed into his owners' back yard.



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A four-year-old cat in Germany called Bonny has survived after being walled in beneath a bathtub for seven weeks, its owner said Tuesday. By the time the neighbor heard Bonny's plaintive meowing from behind the tiles on August 8, the cat's weight had dropped from 13 pounds to 4 pounds.

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They carry their wives, sit on ants, throw milking stools, boots and mobile phones — here in the home of weird world championships, participants will do just about anything to win their offbeat crowns.



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A study of Google Earth satellite images has revealed that herds of cattle tend to face in the north-south direction of Earth's magnetic lines.



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Auctioneers preparing for a backyard estate sale Saturday morning made an explosive discovery among the china and other items up for bid — a suitcase full of military-grade explosives.

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Heidi Dalibor, the 20-year-old Wisconsin woman recently arrested and “booked” for failing to pay her library fines, was rueful about the surprising chapter in her life that landed her in headlines — and a police car: “It was my fault. Now all I can do is laugh.”



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An Italian priest who had planned an online "pageant" for nuns has suspended the project, saying he was misinterpreted and had no intention of putting sisters on a beauty catwalk.

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Oklahoma officials say a typo resulted in a state employee receiving a bonus of $850,000 — but it was only temporary.

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For Jason and Rachael Storm, saying "I do" at a funeral home was a piece of* cake.* The local Starks and Menchinger Family Funeral Home is where Jason is a funeral director. For the groom it was no different than getting married in a church. “I look at it as, if you go to a church and get married, how many caskets do you think have been rolled down that aisle?”

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Iowa City police said a man who was driving drunk tried to bribe a police officer — with a sandwich.

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Police were trying to determine whether they were the victim of a hoax Tuesday after a "body" they found wrapped at a seaside resort turned out to be a life-sized doll.

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Police are trying to track down a man filmed riding a skateboard down a steep stretch of highway at 62 mph, far above the speed limit.

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Gil Smith recently drove from his Gilbert home 70 miles away for a business meeting in Kearny. When he got out of the truck, he heard a cat in distress and realized it was his.

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Police in Port St. Lucie are on the lookout for a cross-dressing man who snatched a 74-year-old woman's purse. As if that weren't odd enough, they're depending on a strange clue.

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Iowa City police say they didn't have much trouble finding a man accused of using a stolen credit card — he signed his own name to the receipts.

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A once drug-addled elephant fed heroin-laced bananas by illegal traders will return home after emerging clean from a three-year detox program on China's tropical island province of Hainan.

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A Japanese monk trying to rid his temple of a hornets' nest panicked when the hornets attacked him and dropped a torch, burning his temple to the ground, police said Thursday.

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A Norwegian BASE jumper said he learned a hard lesson about tempting fate after surviving a spine-chilling crash from a mile-high mountain.



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Authorities say an 8-year-old boy was handing out hundreds of dollars in fake $20 bills at an Ocala elementary school. School officials reported the boy to police on Tuesday.

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Investigators say a large black bear raided a clandestine marijuana growing operation so often that it chased the grower away.

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