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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.

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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.
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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.
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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.
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Fleeing Ore. man pleads to be pulled from Columbia

Authorities in Eastern Oregon say a fleeing man tried to use a backstroke to get across the Columbia River but, exhausted, said he couldn't swim and pleaded with officers to retrieve him. They did.
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Wash. state woman spots stolen car in drive-thru

A Washington woman whose car was stolen from her apartment complex saw the stolen SUV hours later - in the drive-thru of the McDonald's restaurant where she works.
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Coin tossing breaks tie in Philippine mayoral race

What do you do when two candidates running for mayor in the Philippines get exactly the same number of votes? You get them to toss a coin.
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Deer smashes Pa. bus windshield, takes short ride

A deer has taken a ride on a western Pennsylvania bus.
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Conn. chef set to feast on cicadas during invasion

Connecticut chef Bun Lai is already known for his Mexican grasshopper dish and his fried rice with meal worms and crickets. But he might soon also be recognized as the cicada chef.
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NH city sues parking meter 'Robin Hood' group

The city of Keene, N.H., has sued a group that feeds change into parking meters that are about to expire, saying members are harassing enforcement officers.
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Stinky corpse flower blooms again at Ohio State

A large rainforest plant known as a corpse flower because of its awful smell has bloomed again at an Ohio State University greenhouse, and there's more excitement because another corpse flower there is expected to open soon, a spokeswoman said.