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2010-09-04T16:11:53Z
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -- One Nevada gubernatorial hopeful sees a speedy fix to Nevada's budget crisis....

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2010-08-31T19:26:34Z
GETTYSBURG, S.D. (AP) -- A South Dakota sheriff said two Minnesota men are lucky to be alive after they drove underneath a stalled semi truck towing a flatbed. Potter County Sheriff Alan McClain said he's amazed the men were not decapitated....

Fans of the 1989 film Back to the Future Part II may recall when Marty McFly -- played by Michael J. Fox -- travels to the year 2015 and tries on a pair of Nike shoes that lace themselves with the push of a button. This week, folks on the Internet discovered Nike has applied for a patent on a pair of real-life auto-lacing shoes.

By SERENA DAI
2010-08-24T19:08:30Z
CHICAGO (AP) -- The next time you feel like dipping your toes in the Chicago River - beware. A second alligator has been spotted - but not yet captured - in the waterway that winds through downtown Chicago....

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2010-08-18T21:09:33Z
PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) -- A man in a banana costume is accused of exposing himself and brandishing a shotgun while riding around with a bunch of friends in Washington state....

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2010-08-16T22:32:10Z
SALEM, Mass. (AP) -- Massachusetts authorities are searching for a man they say faked his death to beat charges of driving without a license. The Gloucester Times reported that 42-year-old Michael Rosen of Salem sent a man to court last week to file a certificate showing that Rosen had died the previous week. Afterward, a judge dismissed the traffic case....

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2010-08-14T13:20:08Z
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- A Johnstown couple were jailed on charges they robbed a man who paid the woman $130 for sex after meeting her through an Internet chat service. Police said the alleged victim was at a residence Tuesday with 36-year-old Elizabeth Cashaw when her husband, 33-year-old Erskine Cashaw, arrived and became upset upon learning that she had offered sex for sale....

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2010-08-14T13:16:57Z
BRUCE, Miss. (AP) -- A beauty salon owner in in north Mississippi blamed an unexpected power cutoff for a customer's partial baldness. Tessa Mingo, owner of People's Choice Hair Salon in Bruce, told WTVA television that she paid her electric bill July 19. But when a customer came in recently to get her hair colored, the electricity shut down....

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2010-08-11T19:08:21Z
SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) -- Montgomery County police said a man wearing a burqa robbed a bank in Silver Spring. Police said the man who robbed a TD Bank branch on Briggs Chaney Road about 4:20 p.m. Tuesday was wearing a "long black burqa over his face." He also wore jeans and tan boots....

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2010-08-06T14:42:28Z
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- A brazen black bear believed responsible for about 21 break-ins in Montana over the past few weeks has so far eluded capture....