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Albino alligators make snappy, happy home in Paris
PARIS (AP) — Two incredibly rare albino alligators have arrived at their new French home — a Paris aquarium — after being bought from a reptile collector in Florida.
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Man jailed after sleeping in Portland police car
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland police arrested a homeless man who spent the night sleeping in the back of a patrol car and then couldn't get out.
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Boy arrested in theft of Fla. Girl Scout's phone
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A 15-year-old boy has been arrested by Fort Lauderdale police on charges of stealing a Girl Scout's cellphone while she was selling cookies outside a grocery store.
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3 accused of mailing meth to Hawaii in dummy heads
HONOLULU (AP) — There was something unusual about three mannequin heads found inside a UPS parcel being mailed from San Bernardino, Calif., to Hawaii: They each had two pounds of methamphetamine stuffed inside them, authorities said.
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Mich. college offers course in zombies, apocalypse
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. (AP) — Some Central Michigan University students are getting schooled in the undead this semester, thanks to a religion course that's exploring apocalyptic themes in biblical texts, literature and pop culture.
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NM ambulance hijacked with sleeping worker inside
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say an Albuquerque ambulance worker catching some sleep in the back of his vehicle woke up to find himself the victim of a carjacking.
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Bottle released by Mass. scientist in 1956 found
BOSTON (AP) — It was April 1956, and the No. 1 song was Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel." At the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, scientist Dean Bumpus was busy releasing glass bottles in a large stretch of the Atlantic Ocean.
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