KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) – A 60-year-old farmer was so determined to marry a 28-year-old estate worker in Malaysia he kidnapped her when she turned down his proposal, police said Monday.
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A man was charged with petty theft after being caught on a surveillance camera taking jelly beans out of a bin and eating them before he got to the cash register.

The 34-year-old Fort Walton Beach man was buying groceries at Albertson’s when he stopped at a bin of candy and put an unspecified number of jelly beans in his mouth, according to an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office report.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — It was a real stock car, but the driver was the only one racing. And he got away.

Police in rural South Africa found two cows and two goats being transported in a compact car barely large enough for four people.
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ROCHESTER, N.H. — Republican presidential candidate John McCain told workers of small weapons factory that he not only wants to catch Osama Bin Laden if elected, but said he “will shoot him with your products”.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) – Jurors ruled the city of Pasadena must pay $80,000 to a quadriplegic man who sued because police officers allegedly jerked him out of his wheelchair and hung him upside down to search him.
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LOCKLAND, Ohio — A pair of cats are down to eight lives and a Lockland police officer is recovering at home from injuries suffered when his cruiser hit a building early Monday morning.
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DECATUR, Ala. (AP) – Kim Ledford returned to her home after an extended absence and found a strange man in her bed and a woman wearing her clothes. Then another man walked up to question why she was in his house.
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