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- Associated PressSatanic Temple brings after-school club to elementary pupils
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Portland chapter of The Satanic Temple has succeeded in its efforts to bring an after-school program to a Portland elementary school.
Associated PressDriver uses cardboard Trump head in carpool laneSEATTLE (AP) — A cardboard cutout of a head in a passenger seat definitely caught the attention of a Washington State Patrol trooper Tuesday morning.
- Associated PressPolice: Woman robs Arby's restaurant, flees in taxi cab
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman faces armed robbery charges after police say she robbed an Arby's restaurant in Gainesville and then hailed a cab to get away.
- Associated PressLong dog-gone trip: Florida pooch travels to Boston and back
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Pyrenees mix named Apollo is back home in Florida after a journey that took him to the Boston area.
- Associated PressAustrian customs officials find human intestines in luggage
VIENNA (AP) — Austrian customs officials are used to finding unusual items in travelers' luggage. But human intestines were not on their list — until now.
Associated PressDrone to the face doesn't stop Bone Thugs-n-Harmony showVICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — The hip-hop rhythms of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony are too fierce to be stopped. Even by a drone to the face.
Associated PressSnake wrapped around armrest halts Japanese 'bullet' trainTOKYO (AP) — A passenger spotted a snake curled around the armrest of another passenger's seat on a Japanese Shinkansen "bullet" train on Monday, forcing the train to make an unscheduled stop.
- ReutersIndian man bitten by python whilst posing for selfie
Forest department officials on Saturday (September 24) promised strict action after a python attacked a man when a group was trying to click a photo with it. The incident took place on Friday (September 23) after forest department officials removed the python from the premises of a school in northwestern
Associated PressSwooping, gliding over the Alps at free-flight festivalSAINT HILAIRE DU TOUVET, France (AP) — In wild costumes, wingsuits and even home-made flying machines, thousands of people are gliding through the French Alps in the world's oldest free-flight festival.
- Associated PressAlaska council to vote on cat leash law
KENAI, Alaska (AP) — Cats will need leashes just like dogs if a proposal before the Kenai council wins approval.
- Associated PressHold your nose: Stinky corpse flower blooms in New Hampshire
HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — A flower that got its nickname from its putrid smell is blooming at Dartmouth College for the first time since 2011.
Associated PressDriver caught using mannequin to drive in carpool laneBREA, Calif. (AP) — A California driver has been cited for using a mannequin — not the required human being — to drive in the carpool lane.
- Associated PressMichigan quintuplets work first jobs together at McDonald's
POTTERVILLE, Mich. (AP) — Three 18-year-old brothers and their two 18-year-old sisters have landed their first jobs, together, at a McDonald's in Michigan.
- Associated PressGerman girl bicycles to Poland to see her grandmother
BERLIN (AP) — German police say a missing 14-year-old girl has turned up safe and sound in Poland, after bicycling and hitchhiking some 400 kilometers (250 miles) to see her grandmother.
ReutersWork on sex life of rats, life as a badger honored at Ig Nobel PrizesBy Scott Malone CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Reuters) - Scientific research into how polyester pants affect the sex life of rats, what it's like for a human to live like a badger and how different the world looks when viewed through your legs was honored at this year's Ig Nobel spoof awards. The group
- Associated PressSend in the clown complaints: Spate of reports raises alarm
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Police are encouraging caution amid a rash of public complaints and social media reports in a number of states of people dressed like clowns and acting suspiciously, even if they think many are knucklehead pranksters or simply bogus.
Associated PressScholars who studied liars, put pants on rats win Ig NobelsBOSTON (AP) — A Swede who wrote a trilogy about collecting bugs, an Egyptian doctor who put pants on rats to study their sex lives and a British researcher who lived like an animal have been named winners of the Ig Nobels, the annual spoof prizes for quirky scientific achievement.
Associated PressSold: New York mansion of 'Keeping up with the Joneses' fameRHINEBECK, N.Y. (AP) — A dilapidated New York mansion believed to have inspired the phrase "Keeping up with the Joneses" has sold at auction for $120,000.
- Associated PressShe ate 7 corncobs and was sick as a dog - but pup recovered
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — A dog who rooted through the trash from a family dinner and ate seven corncobs is recovering after a charity raised money for surgery.
- Associated PressTeen hospitalized after air freshener causes car explosion
BERLIN (AP) — A German teenager has suffered serious injuries after accidentally creating an explosion in the family car with air freshener.
Associated Press4 white lions, 3 white tigers born in zoo in PolandBORYSEW, Poland (AP) — Seven rare white wild cats — four lions and three tigers — have been born in the past week in a private zoo in central Poland.
- Associated PressFor sale: NY mansion of 'Keeping up with the Joneses' fame
RHINEBECK, N.Y. (AP) — A dilapidated mansion in New York believed to have inspired the phrase "Keeping up with the Joneses" is on the auction block.
- Associated PressCall from Barnstaple, UK, stumps police in Barnstable, Mass.
BARNSTABLE, Mass. (AP) — Police in Barnstable, Massachusetts, were stumped when a woman from a nearly identically named town in the United Kingdom called to report a car crash.
- Associated PressOut of the wild: Police chase bear through Alaska city
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A young black bear led police on a two-hour chase through the streets of downtown Anchorage, Alaska — scurrying down sidewalks and across lanes of traffic and even ducking behind a Pizza Hut along the way.
- ReutersCity issues subpoena over sinking San Francisco luxury high-rise
By Curtis Skinner SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - San Francisco's city attorney on Tuesday issued a subpoena to the developers of a luxury condominium high-rise that is tilting and has sunk more than a foot (30 cm), to determine if structural issues were appropriately conveyed to purchasers. Some 400
