AP - A man who dressed up as Darth Vader, wearing a garbage bag for a cape, and assaulted the founders of a group calling itself the Jedi church was given a suspended sentence Tuesday.
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Man says JetBlue made him sit on toilet (AP)
AP - A New York City man is suing JetBlue Airways Corp.
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Man accused of handing pot to court security (AP)
AP - A man was arrested after pulling marijuana from his pocket at a security check at a court.
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Australian fined for buckling in beer, not child (AP)
AP - An Australian man has been fined after buckling in a case of beer with a seat belt but leaving a 5-year-old child to sit on the car's floor, police said Tuesday.
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Man jailed when daughter fails to get diploma (AP)
AP - A man ordered by a judge to make sure his daughter hit the books has found himself in jail because she failed to earn a high school equivalency diploma.
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Nepal king makes animal sacrifices to power goddess (Reuters)
Reuters - Nepal's King Gyanendra, facing
imminent ouster from the throne, made perhaps his last royal
public appearance at a shrine outside Kathmandu on Monday and
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Men charged after skull dug up, used as bong (Reuters)
Reuters - Authorities in Texas have filed
corpse-abuse charges against two men who allegedly removed a
skull from a grave and used it as a bong.
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Green aliens and UFOs said to visit UK-secret files (Reuters)
Reuters - Aliens from outer space have been
visiting Britain for years and UFO sightings doubled after the
film Close Encounters was released in 1977, according to secret
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Man sues airline over flight spent in toilet (Reuters)
Reuters - A New York man who says he was denied
a seat on a five-hour jetBlue flight and was instead told to
"hang out" in the plane's bathroom has sued the airline for $2
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Barbers turn health educators in eastern Indian schools (Reuters)
Reuters - An eastern Indian state is
recruiting around 4,000 barbers to give free haircuts to poor
children to improve hygiene and stop the children "looking
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Cape parishioners subdue would-be church robber (AP)
AP - Police in Massachusetts say churchgoers in a Cape Cod town tackled a would-be robber who tried to steal a collection box during a service.
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A golden cow in war-hit Jaffna
Remember the famous story about the goose that laid the golden eggs? Well, in Sri Lanka's Jaffna peninsula, it was a cow that yielded a valuable gold chain!
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Play of the Day: Clinton's rise and shine surprise (AP)
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Police: Drunk tuxedo-clad man took mower for ride (AP)
AP - Police say a tuxedo-clad western New York man was drunk when he took a riding lawn mower out for an early morning spin.
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Paging Dr. Jones: Crystal skull stolen (AP)
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Iowa man charged with throwing candy at police (AP)
AP - A college student whose friend was being questioned in a hit and run found himself charged with assaulting an officer with a curious choice of weapons: M&Ms.
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"Self-important and irritating" (Reuters)
Reuters - England is an irritating and insular
country full of overweight, binge-drinking, reality TV addicts,
a new guide warns tourists.
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Book lifts lid on star of eerie first Dracula film (Reuters)
Reuters - The first screen portrayal of Dracula
was so eerie, some critics asked whether the actor himself
could be a vampire. But since his death, little has been done
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Royal jewels, rare watches to test auction market (Reuters)
Reuters - Auction houses offering royal jewels and
rare luxury watches in Geneva next week shrug off any
suggestion that the global economic downturn will dampen what
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Woman fired for giving 16-cent treat to toddler (Reuters)
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