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at 8:28 on August 7, 2008, EDT.

Wash. letter carrier campaigning to wear kilts instead of pants on the job

SEATTLE - A 6-foot-tall, 250-pound letter carrier is campaigning for the right to take off his pants.

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at 8:28 on August 7, 2008, EDT.

Killer gets life sentence plus pizza in plea deal

PORTLAND, Ore. - A New York man who pleaded guilty to murder in Oregon in exchange for buckets of fried chicken will get calzones and pizza to go with his life sentence.

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at 12:16 on August 7, 2008, EDT.

Mexican woman fights off lion with machete after it attacks donkey

ACAPULCO, Mexico - A Mexican woman says she fought a 225-kilogram lion with a machete near the resort city of Acapulco and scared him away.

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at 13:18 on August 7, 2008, EDT.

Owner and 24 workers at northern Ont. car dealership split $22.5M lottery win

TORONTO - Morale is pretty good at Bray Motors in Sundridge, Ont., now that word has spread that the dealership's owner and 24 employees are splitting $22.5 million.

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at 16:45 on August 7, 2008, EDT.

Mom in W.Virginia says child's walkie-talkie picked up trashy trucker talk

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A West Virginia mother is seeking a recall of a popular walkie-talkie after her three-year-old's toy apparently intercepted a profanity-laced conversation between truckers about drugs and strip clubs.

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at 11:02 on August 6, 2008, EDT.

Goats slip past heavily-guarded security fence near New York City bridge

NEW YORK - Normally, a report of bearded intruders secretly penetrating heavily guarded transportation sites in New York would raise lots of red flags.

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at 14:18 on August 6, 2008, EDT.

More than 2 dozen cheerleaders rescued from jammed elevator

AUSTIN - Twenty-six teenage cheerleaders tried to cram themselves into an elevator at the University of Texas to see how many would fit, but then they got stuck and had to be rescued.

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at 16:06 on August 5, 2008, EDT.

U.S. company finds missing laptop with security applicants' data

SAN FRANCISCO - The company that runs an airport security prescreening program in the United States say it has found a laptop containing the personal information of 33,000 people more than a week after it apparently went missing.

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at 2:27 on August 5, 2008, EDT.

Tourist survives 76-metre slide down cliff in California

BIG SUR, Calif. - A tourist is nursing only cuts and bruises after sliding 76 metres down a cliff on California's coast.

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at 14:29 on August 4, 2008, HAE.

Israeli parents forget three-year-old daughter at airport

JERUSALEM - An Israeli couple going on a European vacation remembered to take their duty-free purchases and their 18 suitcases, but forgot their three-year-old daughter at the airport, police said Monday.

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