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MONTERREY, Mexico — A 700-pound man once considered the world’s most obese person left his home for the first time in five months Sunday with the aid of a forklift and a platform truck.
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MONTEREY PARK, Calif. — It wasn’t the man on the hog who found himself being greedy.
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ST. PAUL — An orange trail of Cheetos led St. Paul police to three teenagers suspected of burglarizing a vending machine.
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FERGUS FALLS, Minn. — Meet Hailey Jo Hauer and Xander Jace Riniker, both born at 8:08 a.m. on 8/8/08, weighing 8 pounds, 8 ounces, in neighboring states.
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KENNEWICK, Wash. — Why did the chicken cross the road? In the case of Jerry Sleater’s 5-foot, 400-pound bright blue rooster, that’s apparently as far as whoever was trying to steal it could get it.
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BURRILLVILLE, R.I. — A Burrillville town councilor got more than he bargained for when he bought a used police cruiser at auction. Kevin Blais bought the 2004 Ford Crown Victoria in an online auction from the Hartford, Conn., public works department.
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KODIAK, Alaska — Many Kodiak residents were a bit confused when they received election pamphlets urging them to “Bumoto!” The pamphlets for four ballot initiatives being decided Aug. 26 weren’t in English but in Tagalog, a language widely spoken in the Philippines.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Charleston police said a man tried to rob a movie rental store with an unusual weapon - an empty cheesecake box. Earlier this week, the suspect placed the box on the counter of the Movie Gallery with a note saying it contained a bomb. He told the clerk the bomb would be detonated remotely if he wasn’t given cash.
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ONTARIO, Ore. — Police say there’s been an alarming rise in urine-filled plastic containers found along a three-mile stretch of Interstate 84 in eastern Oregon.
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SNEEDVILLE, Tenn. — All it takes is one vote to win. Just ask a Tennessee woman who was elected constable by voting for herself. Angela Tuttle, 32, said her father encouraged her to run as a write-in candidate because no one else was vying for one of the positions in Hancock County, which is in northeastern Tennessee.
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