Beer guzzling, belching, hideous dress sense – and that’s some of the nicer things the rest of the world said about British women. The nation’s females were lambasted when asked which country had the ugliest women in an international poll. Votes poured in, with people from around the globe eager to point out how...
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Three men stole $4,800 from the Mount Airy Casino in the Poconos by switching $1 chips for similarly colored $25 chips at roulette wheels, police said. Two suspects were arrested Thursday at a roulette table. Antonio D. Bultron, 27, of Bloomington, Ill., and Jairo R. Abreu, 29, of the Dominican Republic were charged with...
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Sweden’s highest court has refused to hear a last-ditch plea by the Madonna of the Orgasm church to be recognized. The church, in Lövestad in southern Sweden, has been fighting a lengthy battle to be registered as a faith community in Sweden, but Sweden’s Supreme Administrative Court (Regeringsrätten) said there were no grounds to...
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Someone stole $25,000 in cash from a car left at a Park and Ride site in Santa Margarita on Wednesday. A woman hid a bag that included cash from her business and the sale of a car under the seat of her vehicle while she and her husband went to a movie, according to...
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A German bank robber led his pursuers straight to him after taunting police in an email over their efforts to catch him. Authorities in the southern city of Wuerzburg said the 19-year-old sent emails to police and two newspapers to point out factual errors in the report of his bank raid in the town...
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We have one word for you, Mr. President, the next time you want to sweep into Los Angeles late on a weekday afternoon: Helicopter. That way, you can avoid the streets the rest of us mere residents must use to get around. President Obama’s fundraising mission in Los Angeles on Monday evening may have...
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Yankee great Lou Gehrig may not have had the motor-neuron disorder that was famously named after him. That’s the intriguing suggestion of a group of neurologists who describe a new type of degenerative nerve disease that bears a striking resemblance to Lou Gehrig’s but is distinguished by the presence of two signature proteins that...
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A La Crosse man got a lesson in trust last week when he loaned his car to an escort. The man hired a date, named “Candy,” through an online service, according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday. Candy asked to borrow his 1999 Ford Taurus. He agreed as long as she returned it by...
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A man called to report two strippers he hired for a bachelor party took money without taking off their clothes and pepper-sprayed two of the men. Police at about 3 a.m. Sunday responded to the 7600 block of Center Avenue after a man called saying two exotic dancers took a $500 payment and left,...
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New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority has already redefined the term “customer service” as “screwing over customers by cutting service.” But now the MTA is tackling another item in the dictionary, attempting to put a limit on that which is supposedly “unlimited.” For $89, subway and bus riders can purchase 30-day unlimited MetroCards, which —...
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