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Ohio County Pays Man $1,500 For Bat Bite

Zan — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:19:13 +0000

An Ohio county has agreed to pay $1,500 to a man who was bitten by a rabid bat and turned to a little-known state law that allows for compensation. Commissioners in Delaware County, north of Columbus, voted Thursday to provide 61-year-old David Froehlich with the maximum reimbursement under the law, even though he put in his request for the money two days late.

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Leggo My Eggo! Kellogg Has A Waffle Shortage

Zan — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:09:44 +0000

Kellogg Co. says there will be a nationwide shortage of its popular Eggo frozen waffles until next summer because of interruptions in production at two of the four plants that make them.

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Elephant Nearly Becomes Roadkill In Okla.

Zan — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:04:00 +0000

An Oklahoma couple driving home from church hit an animal -- a really big one. An elephant that escaped from a nearby circus collided with the couple's SUV Wednesday night when it ran across a rural highway in Enid, about 100 miles north of Oklahoma City. Authorities say the elephant's tusk tore a hole in the SUV's sheet metal.

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Mich. Man Can Sue Store He Robbed

Zan — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:56:30 +0000

A Michigan judge says a man who claims he was chased, shot and beaten by workers at a store he'd just robbed can sue the men. But only if he comes up with $10,000 within two weeks.

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Scientists Developing Tools To Give Future 100-Year-Olds A Body 50 Years Younger

Zan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:17:30 +0000

Living to the age of 100, but retaining the body of a 50-year-old may one day be a possibility. Good news, since half the babies born now in the UK will live at least that long.

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22-inch man ready for title of world’s shortest person

Zan — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:30:00 +0000

KATMANDU, Nepal - Now that he's all grown up, 18-year-old Khagendra Thapa Magar of Nepal wants the world to know just how tiny he is.

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Pepsi Slammed For iPhone App Helping Men ‘Score’

Zan — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:24:54 +0000

PepsiCo Inc. is facing criticism for an iPhone application that promises to help men "score" with two dozen stereotypes of women by giving users pickup lines and a scoreboard to keep track of their conquests.

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Rare Double Pregnancy Surprises All

Zan — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:33:28 +0000

How could a woman be pregnant with two fetuses, but not with twins? Todd and Julia Grovenburg, of Fort Smith, Arkansas, are expecting two babies, but one might be weeks older than the other. Some doctors believe it's a rare case of superfetation, a condition common in animals, but rarely seen in humans. In this case, Julia, who was already pregnant, got pregnant again.

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Mississippi Woman Now Sees Through Her Tooth

Zan — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:19:41 +0000

(AHN) - When the Old Testament writers warned about an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, they couldn't have known about Sharron Thornton. The 60-year-old Mississippi woman now has a tooth for an eye after an unusual operation at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami.

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Teen Fined $25,000 For Cost Of NH Mountain Rescue

Zan — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:07:54 +0000

A Massachusetts teenager who spent three nights alone on Mount Washington in April after he sprained an ankle and veered off marked trails has been fined more than $25,000 for the cost of his rescue.

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