RALEIGH, N.C. – Shoppers at a Harris Teeter supermarket in North Carolina’s capital city have gotten a very big break on their bills. WRAL in Raleigh reports (http://bit.ly/1En8IhS) the cash registers at the chain’s Cameron Village store crashed on Friday. The station quoted a store manager as saying his team …
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CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. – This isn’t your grandparents’ baseball game. Minor league teams from New York and Connecticut will play an experimental game this weekend aimed at finding ways to speed their pace. The Long Island Ducks and Bridgeport Bluefish will play an exhibition game Saturday, limiting every batter to …
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A deputy in Florida was grazed by a bullet Wednesday during a gunfight with a suspect who fled after being suspected of shoplifting cigarettes and then took part in an hours-long standoff before he was taken into custody, authorities said. The deputy who was shot at had non-life-threatening injuries, the …
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Fruitcake has built quite a reputation. It is known for its longevity, but also as a gift not widely preferred — although you can always regift. The origins of fruitcake date back to the ancient Romans, where a version of the dessert was made as a sort of energy bar …
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A Texas wife has garnered millions of reactions on TikTok after she made a bingo card that includes her husband’s reactions as he watches Dallas Cowboys games in real time. Makenzie Waters told FOX 4 Dallas that she’s been watching football games with her husband, Justin Waters, for more than …
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ALBERTVILLE, Ala. – Police say a truck spilled smelly chicken parts all over an Alabama street, closing the road for hours as workers tried to clean the mess and contain the stench. WHNT-TV (http://bit.ly/1e7ObU7 ) reports that county emergency officials say the truck driver hit his brakes to avoid a …
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NEW YORK – Police say three men hoping to find discarded valuables in New York City’s hot and putrid sewer system have been arrested — after coming out empty-handed. Two of them were nabbed after emerging from a manhole in Brooklyn’s East Flatbush neighborhood Thursday. Police say the third suspect, …
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BERLIN – Police in western Germany are looking for thieves who broke into a store selling alcohol and stole the caps off 1,200 bottles of beer — presumably to collect points for a prize contest — yet left the suds themselves untouched. Essen police said Tuesday the thieves broke into …
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. – A University of Michigan computer science junior has moved into a 170-square-foot home he built himself. Christopher Cerk, 21, loaded the tiny house on a trailer and hauled it with him for the start of fall classes, The Ann Arbor News reported (http://bit.ly/1NUz3s0 ) Saturday. Cerk …
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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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