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This is one of those stories that shows how much a dog will do to stay with his master.

Remember Gillian Gibbons, the teacher who committed what was probably an honest mistake, naming a teddy bear used in a class exercise Muhammed (based on the students' votes, BTW!), and was convicted of inciting religious hatred? She was eventually pardoned, though Sudanese protesters called for her execution.

She's off to China. Start writing the headlines now.

Recall the paralyzed man who was dumped on the floor by police after he tried - several times - to tell them he could not stand up at the booking table? Glad to see some people have a brain, as they have arrested the deputy who dumped him on the floor.

Proof of life. This actually happened to the uncle of someone I work with. He's Indian, and his uncle served in the Army. As such, he gets a pension. However, ever year, to continue receiving his pension, he has to submit paperwork proving that he's still living.

Molly Oliver said her cat, Sooty, who currently weighs in at about 28 pounds, gained weight rapidly during the past two months, the Daily Mirror reported Friday.

An interesting piece of history was discovered in a document that the State Department's historical office released.

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Aditya “Romeo” Dev of Phagwara, India, is less than 3 feet tall, but he’s also deemed as the World’s Smallest Bodybuilder on the planet by the Guinness Book of World Records.

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Mariam Amash filled in the routine form with anything but routine information. Amash, who recently applied for a new Israeli identity card, said she was born 120 years ago - a claim, if confirmed, that would ...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- A Swedish preschool has been criticized for banning its children from wearing striped and spotted clothing since the patterns give one of its teachers severe migraine attacks.

WELCH, W.Va. (AP) -- A robbery suspect tried to hide his face with a pair of underwear but the disguise didn't fool witnesses.

ALICE, Texas (AP) -- The former mayor of Alice who resigned because of a custody dispute over a Shih Tzu name Puddles insists she didn't steal her neighbor's pooch.

LONDON (AP) -- Can his fractured fiddle - a million dollar Guadagnini - be fixed? It's too early to tell.

MIAMI (AP) -- It was the stereotypical firefighters-try-to-rescue-cat story, but with a twist.

LOWER TOWNSHIP —A police officer fired for having sex while on-duty has dropped his bid to get his job back.

A former priest, Philip A. Magaldi, was confirmed to have HIV - but not AIDS - by Catholic diocese officials on Thursday.

Three couples got the Valentine's Day wedding they craved on Thursday, marrying at a White Castle in the restaurant chain's home city.

Lollipops from - where else - China have been recalled after metal fragments were found in at least two lollipops sold at central Florida stores.

Hard to believe that there are any of these bans still around, but there are. And now Alabama and Mississippi are the last prudish states around, as a federal appeals court overturned a Texas law banning sex toy sales.

For some reason, since Jobs is a diehard Democrat, I doubt Rush will get much response to his on-air plea. And no, I don't listen to the show, but there is a transcript.

On Rush's Tuesday show, he opined about a problem he's having with his four Mac Pros and Mac OS X 10.5.2. Apparently he hoped 10.5.2 would fix the issue, but no go. As much as I dislike Limbaugh I laughed at the final sentence in his missive.

Guilty! Guilty of stereotyping. That's what Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has to say about the now-defunct TV show "The Sopranos."