TRENTON, N.J. – Five drug raids in New Jersey have led to the seizure of the normal assortment of marijuana, ecstasy and guns and the removal of one not-so normal thing: a crocodile. The Mercer County prosecutor’s office says authorities found a small crocodile living in the basement of a …
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HARLAN, Ky. – The cold might not bother Disney’s Queen Elsa, but it’s wreaking enough havoc in Kentucky that a police department announced a joke warrant for the popular “Frozen” character’s arrest. Police in the small, rural town of Harlan posted a Facebook message Wednesday about Elsa. They wrote: “Suspect …
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PIEDMONT, Ala. – A man driving to work in Alabama suddenly noticed his stolen pickup truck following him, setting off a chain of events that included a pursuit, a crash and an arrest. Calhoun County Chief Deputy Matthew Wade told WBRC-TV (http://bit.ly/1IVD8Xh ) a man called police Friday after noticing …
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A crematorium worker in Brazil got a shocking surprise after finding a 90-year-old woman still alive inside a body bag after she was pronounced dead, according to reports. According to the Estadão, a Brazilian news source, the whole ordeal began on Saturday in the city of São José, just hours …
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Officers scrambled to clean up a highway mess in Washington State after hundreds of eggs spilled onto the road from a head-on semi-truck collision early Tuesday morning. The entire crash was caught on video as Washington State Patrol posted the harrowing moment a semi truck crashed head-on into another semi …
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MARS, Pa. – Earth to Mars: Happy New Year! That’s the sentiment being offered this weekend in Mars, Pennsylvania, as NASA and other space enthusiasts gather to honor the red planet. The Martian New Year occurs about every two Earth-years. On Friday and Saturday, NASA will sponsor exhibits and activities …
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LAMBERTVILLE, Mich. – A community in far southeast Michigan is remembering an elderly man who would wave at passing motorists every day as he waited for the mail carrier. Norman Hall died July 28 at age 88. Now an enlarged photo of him waving from a pontoon with the message …
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FARGO, N.D. – Two North Dakota State University students got a scare when armed police officers mistook their telescope for a rifle. WDAY-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1MXfrDu ) that Levi Joraanstad and Colin Waldera were setting up the telescope behind their apartment Monday night when they were blinded by a bright light …
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MYSTIC, Conn. – Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has found himself upstaged by a beluga whale during a tourism news conference at the Mystic Aquarium. Malloy was standing in front of the Alaskan Coast exhibit Wednesday touting an increase in summer tourism in Connecticut when a whale named Juno swam …
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Archaeologists in the United Kingdom recently unearthed ancient relics beneath a bustling marketplace — including the remains of a “vile” dungeon. Announcing the discovery in a Sept. 23 press release, officials at the University of Leicester said the dig yielded “extraordinary evidence of 2,000 years of human activity” in Leicester’s …
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