SEATTLE (AP) - A car plunged 25 feet after crashing through a downtown barrier Monday, but the driver suffered only minor injuries thanks to a well-placed trash bin. His sedan landed upside-down atop the bin, its trunk accepting the brunt of the impact.
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MOSCOW - A Russian man whom police stopped for allegedly driving drunk tried to swallow his keys then bit an officer as the officer tried to retrieve them, a Russian news agency reported Tuesday.
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A man broke into a barn on Thanksgiving morning, spray-painted three pet goats and scattered pages of pornographic magazines on the floor, apparently to harass the property owner, police said Tuesday.

Drew Gagnon, 37, of Mahopac, was arrested the next day and was charged with burglary, criminal trespass and animal cruelty, said Lt. Brian Karst, of the Carmel police force, which covers Mahopac. The man who drove Gagnon to the barn, Douglas Bisio, 34, of Mahopac, was charged with criminal facilitation, police said.
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Urine - it’s not just for flushing.

In an attempt to prevent evergreen trees from being stolen, all of those on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s City and East campuses have been sprayed with a combination of fox urine and glycerin.
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The first of two town hall meetings held at the University of Manitoba concerning food service providers for the university took place on Nov. 15. Aramark, the current food service provider, proposed major changes to the food program they now have in place. But what was supposed to be an interactive and informative meeting eventually turned into a radical display of discontent from various students present.
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - A Canadian man who could not figure out how to deal with his girlfriend’s feverish 10-month-old daughter put the baby into a freezer to cool her down, a local newspaper reported on Friday.
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NEW YORK - Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock each filed divorce papers Monday seeking to end their marriage of less than four months.

Anderson’s representative would not comment on the reason or any particulars of the divorce. Anderson and Rock, whose real name is Robert Ritchie, each cited “irreconcilable differences” in their divorce filings in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
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