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TODAY'S ZAMAN :: Weird But True
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TODAY'S ZAMAN
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Polish art society defends its ‘Oskar’
Few would confuse the glitz of the Academy Awards with a ceremony held by a folk arts society in Poland, but Hollywood doesn’t want anyone else handing out Oscars.
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Gun found inside donated piano
Police say an unloaded gun has been found inside a piano that was donated to a southeast Michigan nursing home years ago.
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Boy sleeps through theft of dad’s car
Police in upstate New York say a 6-year-old boy snoozing in his father’s car never woke up while the vehicle was being stolen after it was left running outside a store.
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Joe Biden headed
to ‘Road Island’
The vice president is hitting the road -- to what the White House wrote as “Road Island,” mistakenly spelled R-O-A-D instead of R-H-O-D-E.
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Ex-mayor steals
mixer to make pizza
The former mayor of a Los Angeles suburb has pleaded guilty to stealing a commercial food mixer from the local school district so he could make dough for his home pizza oven.
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‘Buy wife flowers, take her to dinner’
A spat over forgetting to wish his wife a happy birthday landed a South Florida man in jail on domestic violence charges.
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Man accused of
trying to extort gov’t
Authorities in Alaska say a man threatened to teach “crackheads” how to make “electromagnetic distortion devices” unless the state paid him $85,000.
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Probation not A for
effort for hacker
One Pennsylvania college student’s attempt to boost his failing grades didn’t get him an A for effort. It got him probation.
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Chinese fight stress
with pillows in friendly battle at annual event
 A whirlwind of pillows bearing the names of bosses and teachers filled the air as hundreds of Chinese gathered to blow off stress in Shanghai, staging a massive pillow battle.
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Mass. woman says TSA confiscate
frosted cupcake
A woman who just flew back home from Las Vegas says an airport security officer confiscated her frosted cupcake because he thought the icing on it could be a security risk.
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Rocky Road: Ice cream spill freezes Indiana traffic
Police say 40,000 pounds of ice cream have spilled from a semitrailer in Fort Wayne, Ind., closing two lanes of southbound Interstate 69 at the start of the holiday weekend.
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Cat travels
200 miles under
car hood in Ohio
A cat has survived a four-hour, 200-mile ride under the hood of a car traveling through Ohio.
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New York trio stole toys in 91-store spree
A very naughty list is at the center of a three-state, 91-store shoplifting spree that landed three people behind bars in western Pennsylvania for allegedly stealing tens of thousands of dollars in toys.
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Suicide kit maker, 93, guilty of tax offense
A great-grandmother selling suicide kits from her home in California pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor tax-related offense stemming from an investigation of her mail-order business.
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Body in freezer that
of missing woman
A body found stuffed in a Maine freezer in October was identified as that of a 29-year-old woman who went missing nearly three decades ago after a fight with her boyfriend, police said.
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