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Patriots Fan Interrupts Goodell's Vacation With Message In The Sky

7:40am August 05, 2015

Upset by Tom Brady's suspension over "deflate-gate," Richard Pate of Maine hired a pilot to fly over the NFL commissioner's summer vacation home with a banner reading "Jet Back to New York!"

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Pep is featured in the Dec. 26, 1925 issue of the Boston Daily Globe. But Gov. Pinchot's wife, Cornelia, later set the tall tale straight in an interview with The New York Times.

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Why 'Pep' The Prison Dog Got Such A Bum Rap

4:47pm August 04, 2015

by Emma Jacobs

He killed the Pennsylvania governor's wife's cat — or so the story went. As it turns out, the Labrador was sentenced to the grim corridors of Eastern State Penitentiary to live up to his name.

Italian Crime Bosses' Coded Notes Get Them Busted

8:19am August 04, 2015

Police can tap phones, which is why a mafioso might use pizzini, or scraps of paper with coded messages. But Italian police recently broke some of those codes, and made 11 arrests.

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Giant panda Jia Jia eats bamboo next to her birthday cake made with ice and vegetables at Ocean Park in Hong Kong, on Tuesday.

Giant Panda Jia Jia Celebrates 37th Birthday And 2 Guinness World Records

11:59am July 28, 2015

by Eyder Peralta

Jia Jia, who lives at a Hong Kong amusement park, became the oldest panda ever living in captivity and the oldest panda currently living in captivity. In human terms, Jia Jia would be more than 100.

Trapped Under A Car, A Women Is Saved By A Crowd

9:24am July 24, 2015

The women motorcyclist became trapped under the vehicle in an accident. Passers-by and emergency responders literally took matters into their hands and lifted the car, freeing the woman.

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A New York Hotel Room For Under $100. Yeah, There's A Catch.

7:56am July 24, 2015

It's not really hotel. It's a van, parked on the East River. But it's cheap.

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Struck By Lighting As A Kid, A Lottery Winner As An Adult

9:40am July 23, 2015

As a youth, Canadian Peter McCathie had the extreme bad luck of being hit by lightening. As an adult, he had the extreme good fortune of winning a million dollars in a lottery.

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Nigel Richards, seen here at a Scrabble tournament last winter, won the French-language Scrabble championships Monday. He began studying the French Scrabble dictionary in May.

World News

Winner Of French Scrabble Title Does Not Speak French

8:52am July 22, 2015

by Bill Chappell

It took about two months for Nigel Richards to memorize a French Scrabble dictionary. The New Zealand native has won many English-language Scrabble tournaments.

In A Hurry, Queen Elizabeth Goes Off Road

7:52am July 22, 2015

The queen was headed to church when she veered onto the grass to go around a family in her path.

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World News

In Transylvania, Donating Blood Will Get You Concert Tickets

7:20am July 21, 2015

The Romanian region is the home of Dracula, but less than 2 percent of the people donate blood.

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