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Lone Star State serves up frightening Fair fare
DALLAS - Everything is bigger in Texas, especially the calorie counts at the State Fair, which will offer such delicacies this year as deep-fried s’mores and a fried banana split. The State Fair of Texas begins late next month, and a competition is being held to honour its tastiest fried f...
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Georgia town’s scarecrows hunting for a haunting world record
HOSCHTON, Ga. - A small town in northeastern Georgia is undergoing a frightening population boom. In a bid to break a world record for scarecrows and scare up some fun for the fall season, thousands of straw-stuffed newcomers are creeping across town. There’s a scuba diver, the Georgia Bul...
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Man donates $3-million lottery ticket to his church in New York
PORT JEFFERSON, N.Y. - A New York pastor says one of his congregants donated a winning lottery ticket worth $3 million to his church. Pastor Bertrand Crabbe of the True North Community Church in Port Jefferson says the donor, who asked to remain anonymous, donated the "Ba Da Bling" scratch...
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Charge dismissed in case of dog registered to vote in Washington state
FEDERAL WAY, Wash. - A judge has decided that a suburban Seattle woman who registered her Australian shepherd-terrier mix to vote has spent enough time in the legal doghouse. Jane Balogh (BAY’-loh) had been charged with making a false statement but entered into a plea agreement last year. ...
Tuesday , August 26, 2008
Firemen in De Queen, Ark., battle blaze at their own fire station
De QUEEN, Ark. - Local firefighters didn’t have to go far to tackle one recent blaze. The De Queen fire station is closed on weekends, so when a call is received the firefighters go to the station to get their gear before heading out. But when they gathered at the station Saturday to answe...
Tuesday , August 26, 2008
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