August 12, 2008 | Odd News Sweden relaxes rules on naming children STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Swedish authorities say parents can now name their newborns "Budweiser" or "Metallica" if they so wish.
August 1, 2008 | Odd News Suspect arrested after hours pinned down in the dump DILLON, S.C. July 4, 2008 | Odd News Man's ashes go up with fireworks in Indiana INDIANAPOLIS - One of the fireworks bursting above Indianapolis this year contained a bit of cremated remains - a fitting tribute, organizers say, to the man who ran the annual event for 40 years. July 2, 2008 | Odd News EPA: Salad dressing runoff floods Ohio homes COLUMBUS, Ohio — An Ohio EPA official says creamy ranch dressing mixed with sewage and storm runoff in the flooded basements of at least 10 Columbus homes.
June 20, 2008 | Odd News Canadian officials say 6th floating foot a hoax VANCOUVER, British Columbia - British Columbia's coroner's office called the discovery of a sixth floating foot a hoax, saying Thursday it was really an animal paw stuffed inside a running shoe. June 3, 2008 | Odd News Toledo officer does C-section in bid to save fawn A lot is required of a police officer - protecting residents in the community, investigating crimes, and arresting those who break the law. June 3, 2008 | Odd News University of Toledo grad's ashes interred in Pringles can CINCINNATI - The man who designed the container for Pringles potato crisps was so proud of his accomplishment that he asked his family to bury him in one of the cans. May 19, 2008 | Odd News 2 shoot each other with Tasers in parking spat BOULDER, Colo. - It wasn't exactly pistols at 30 paces, but police say a security company supervisor and a restaurateur shot each other with Tasers in a "bonehead" confrontation over parking. April 30, 2008 | Odd News Restaurant owner accused of writing 44,000 bad checks CLEVELAND - Federal prosecutors in Cleveland say a restaurant operator fraudulently floated 44,000 bad checks totaling $824 million and cost his bank $4.1 million. April 20, 2008 | Odd News Charity sues Rhode Island hospital over 'free bed' in woman's 1912 will PROVIDENCE, R.I.
April 10, 2008 | Odd News Baby with 2 faces revered as goddess SAINI SUNPURA, India - A baby with two faces was born in a northern Indian village, where she is doing well and is being worshipped as the reincarnation of a Hindu goddess, her father said this week. March 26, 2008 | Odd News Missouri man installs TV with gun, kills wife AP VIDEO:
March 25, 2008 | Odd News Once ruled dead, Oklahoma man now 'pretty good' OKLAHOMA CITY - Four months after he was declared brain dead and doctors were about to remove his organs for transplant, Zach Dunlap said he feels "pretty good."
March 11, 2008 | Odd News Knitknot tree project is town's purl in Yellow Springs YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio - No, that's not a hallucination. That pear tree is wearing a sweater. March 5, 2008 | Odd News Error makes robo-calls wake-up calls COLUMBUS - Some Democrats in the Columbus area complained about being awakened early yesterday with phone calls of a recorded message asking them to vote. February 29, 2008 | Odd News Newborn survives fall through toilet from moving train AHMADABAD, India - A newborn girl fell through the toilet in a moving train and onto the tracks moments after her mother gave birth prematurely, surviving nearly two hours before being found,... February 22, 2008 | Odd News Apostrophe punctuates woes with computers NEW YORK - It can stop you from voting, destroy your dental appointments, make it difficult to rent a car or book a flight, even interfere with your college exams. February 6, 2008 | Odd News Boy stuck in washer makes clean getaway The boy was wedged against the agitator, his knee against his chest January 7, 2008 | Odd News Video games pushed as high school subject COLUMBUS - It was a capture-the-flag video game with a mountain, river, humanlike characters, and flags hanging in the air. But 16-year-old Greg Condit wasn't playing it - he was creating it. January 6, 2008 | Odd News Chicken bones lead to burglary suspect KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Chicken bones left at a burglary more than a year ago have led investigators to an inmate with a long rap sheet and a hefty appetite.
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