Edmonton plans to put freestanding public urinals near Whyte Avenue at night to give drunken revelers a place to relieve themselves along the popular nightclub stretch.
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A HERO shopkeeper was fined £250 yesterday — because he tackled three hoodie thieves.

Brave Jacob Smyth, 33, chased and caught the yobs after they grabbed armfuls of spray paint from his hardware store.
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TOKYO (AP) – June 14, 2007 – People in Japan are staying cool as a cucumber this summer with “Pepsi Ice Cucumber” – a new soda based on the crisp green gourd.
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PALATINE, Ill. — An elementary school science teacher in this Chicago suburb doesn’t have to turn on the news for an update on NASA’s space mission. She just turns on her video baby monitor.

Since Sunday, one of the two channels on Natalie Meilinger’s baby monitor has been picking up black-and-white video from inside the space shuttle Atlantis. The other still lets her keep an eye on her baby.
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PETERBOROUGH, Ontario (AP) – A judge has ruled that a 24-year-old Canadian man is not allowed to have a girlfriend for the next three years.

The ruling came after Steven Cranley pleaded guilty on Tuesday to several charges stemming from an assault on a former girlfriend.
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CINCINNATI — Nicole Brown is looking for an ally in her fight to lose weight.

“I want to lose weight for a lifetime and be healthy for the future,” she said.
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