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Denmark's de Forest wins Eurovision song contest
Denmark's Emmelie de Forest has won this year's Eurovision Song Contest with her ethno-inspired flute and drum tune "Only Teardrops," despite tough competition from spectacular stage shows by performers from Azerbaijan and Ukraine. Juries and television viewers across Europe awarded the barefoot, hippie-chic 20-year-old for the catchy love song that ...
Raw: Crash Sends Car Into Fla. Pool
Surveillance video from the Ocean Inn in Fort Lauderdale, Florida captures the moment a car hit a parked vehicle, sending it into the pool. (May 17)
Hot Chicken: Gaza Smugglers Offer KFC
Fried chicken is the latest 'luxury' being smuggled through tunnels from Egypt into Gaza. (May 17)
Raw: Bear Falls From Tampa Tree
A Tampa man got more than he bargained for when he opened his door to let the dog out. A black bear was in his backyard. (May 17)
Funeral home has bicycle hearse for 1 last ride
An Oregon funeral home in Eugene offers natural burials where the ride to the person's final resting place is on the back of a three-wheeled bicycle. Sunset Hills Cemetery and Funeral Home director Wade Lind says he got the idea from bikers and designed the pedal-powered hearse himself. It has ...
Birth of anteater has Conn. zoo staff puzzled
An anteater has given birth at a Connecticut conservation center, prompting officials there to wonder how the mother conceived. Officials at the LEO Zoological Conservation Center tell the Greenwich Time (http://bit.ly/14wsum4 ) they had removed the only male anteater from the enclosure in August, long before the six-month gestation period ...
Alaska man runs onto frozen lake to avoid jail
Anchorage police say a young man who didn't want to return to jail ran out onto the uncertain ice of an Alaska lake to escape officers armed with an arrest warrant. Police spokeswoman Dani Myren says officers were sufficiently concerned about the thickness of the ice covering Cheney lake that ...
Aussie minister sorry he 'liked' exposed teen pic
An Australian politician says he has learned a valuable lesson in social networking after he "liked" a Facebook photo without realizing that it showed a teenage prankster exposing himself. Western Australia Minister for Education Peter Collier said he clicked the "like" button under what he thought was an innocent photo ...
Texas senior, 18, bags 800-pound record alligator
A Houston-area high school senior has bagged a 14-foot, 800 pound alligator — the heaviest ever certified in Texas — on his first alligator hunt. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department officials say 18-year-old Braxton Bielski bagged the record gator last week at Choke Canyon State Park, about 90 miles south ...
Exhibition of secretly shot photos upsets NYers
Residents of a New York luxury apartment building are livid over an exhibition of photos secretly snapped through their apartment windows. Photographer Arne Svenson pointed his camera at the oversized windows of the Tribeca (try-BEHK'-uh) building from his second-floor apartment across the street. The images show residents doing mundane things ...
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