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CHICAGO - Sounds a little flaky, but someone has offered more than $50 on eBay for a piece of breakfast cereal that is touted as a lookalike to the state of Illinois. (more…)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Millions of swarming honey bees are on the loose after a truck carrying crates of the insects flipped over on a California highway. (more…)

Did Texans Witness A UFO?
Residents of Stephenville, Texas, describe seeing a string of lights in the sky doing strange things and are calling it a UFO. No Air Force planes were in the area, as Joel Brown reports.

A Swiss concept car maker unveiled an amphibious car at an auto show in Geneva, Switzerland.

“Only On The Web”: A restaurant is bringing the Japanese Nyataimori style of serving sushi to Minneapolis. Patrons eat around a nude man or a woman who has sushi placed on their body.

What’s Happening To The Bees?
“Colony Collapse Disorder” hit bee keepers in more than half the country last spring. Now, it has spread to nearly every state. What’s causing healthy hives to go dead? John Blackstone reports.

Great-grandmother 1, would-be robber 0. Bernie Garcia at first thought the young man who approached her asking for money while she gassed up her car seemed like a sweet guy.

But when the 83-year-old woman told him Wednesday that she’d just spent all her spare change on gas and had none to give him, he grabbed her purse. (more…)

TAMPA, Fla. (AP)—Billy Crystal’s “mahvelous” time with the New York Yankees is over.

The team released the actor on his 60th birthday, one day after he struck out in his only at-bat against the Pittsburgh Pirates. (more…)

MEXICO CITY - When Manuel Uribe went out on a date, he made all the necessary arrangements: a forklift to carry him out of the house and a flatbed tow truck big enough to haul the formerly half-ton man and his bed to a party.

But even the open road wasn’t big enough to handle Uribe’s dream (more…)

PAU, France (AFP) - The mayor of a French village has issued a decree banning residents from dying in his territory unless they own a spot in the overcrowded cemetery. (more…)

At a cost of nearly $42 million, the IRS wants you to know: Your check is almost in the mail.

The Internal Revenue Service is spending the money on letters to alert taxpayers to expect rebate checks as part of the economic stimulus plan.

The notices are going out this month to an (more…)

ROSEBURG, Ore. - When two guys in cowboy garb offered the sheriff’s deputies doughnuts, and then the deputies investigated a burglary involving doughnuts and the prints of cowboy boots, it didn’t take Sherlock Holmes to crack the case.

“The officers kind of put two and two together,” Deputy District Attorney Dave Hopkins said Tuesday at the sentencing of Adam Hancock, 21, of Baker City on theft and burglary charges.

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READINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. - Twenty-nine New Jersey students punished with two-day detentions after they used pennies to pay for their $2 lunches are getting a pardon.

Officials say a group of middle school students upset by their shortened lunch period paid for their meals with pennies Thursday. Schiff gave them detentions for slowing down the lunch line and disrespecting cafeteria workers. (more…)

CLINTON, Ark. - Charlie Brown is down to seven lives.

Donna and Danny Pistole’s black-and-white cat survived a February tornado that destroyed the family’s mobile home, coming out of nearby woods skittish but no worse for wear. However, the cat took up refuge in a large pile of debris from the storm that the Pistoles set afire last Sunday while cleaning up their property. (more…)

What happened to faking a cough?

Sheriff’s detectives in Franklin County, Washington, say a man had his friend shoot him in the shoulder so he wouldn’t have to go to work.

When he first spoke with deputies, Daniel Kuch (kooch) told them he’d been the victim of a drive-by shooting while he was jogging Thursday. But detectives say Kuch later acknowledged that he asked a friend to shoot him so he could get some time off work and avoid a drug test. (more…)