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GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Like many Americans, Kent Couch plans to settle into a lawn chair during the Fourth of July weekend. Unlike everyone else, his feet will dangle high above the lawn.
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DILLON, S.C. — Call him the short arm of the law. Police in Dillon, a small town near the North Carolina border, say a 13-year-old with an interest in law enforcement twice stole a police cruiser and took it out to do some patrolling.
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CONCORD, Calif. — More than 2,000 guitar-players performing “This Land is Your Land” in a Bay Area park appear to have strummed their way into the record books.
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GREENACRES, Fla. — Police say a South Florida woman stole a couple’s cat to get them to return her dog. Linda Urioste’s black Labrador was recently picked up by animal control officers and later adopted by Jutta Hollar and her husband.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A New Zealand man has put his soul up for auction to the highest bidder, noting that it is “a merry old soul” rather than a “funk soul brother” but that he would “would like to think there is a bit of funk in there somewhere.”
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PULASKI, Va. — The Pulaski County Courthouse is almost free of fleas that hitched a ride on an opossum found dead between the floorboards. In early June, workers started to complain that the pests were biting them and visitors.
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OCALA, Fla. — Police say an Ocala man was selling stolen property at a yard sale in the same neighborhood as the home he robbed. Fred and Betty McAteers, who live in Ocklawaha, arrived at a home they own in Ocala on Monday to find that it had been burglarized.
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ADELAIDE, Australia — Hymns are being replaced at funerals in one Australian city by popular rock classics like Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” and AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell,” a cemetery manager said Wednesday.
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BERLIN — A farmer in Germany has learned a harsh lesson about the dangers of smoking. While he ducked into a convenience store to buy cigarettes, his parked tractor and its load of 25 tons of potatoes went rolling down a hill - and over a parked car.
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BELLA VISTA, Ark. — Thieves in northwest Arkansas made a huge withdrawal at a bank - they took a whole automated teller machine with them.
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