BOONTON, N.J. – Police in northern New Jersey needed pepper spray to thwart a groundhog on the attack. Boonton resident Alex Scotttold police the rodent chased him when he entered his garage and tried to get his truck. Police Sgt. Mike Danyo and Officer Paul Ryan said the groundhog went on the attack when they arrived.
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BARBERTON, Ohio – A developer has found new life for an old church in northeast Ohio by redesigning it as a workout center.

Developer and bodybuilder Al Horvath converted a Methodist church in Barberton into a training facility he calls Faith Gym.
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SAN FRANCISCO – A pro-marijuana group is launching another television bid to legalize pot in California – this time with the pitch that legalizing and taxing the drug could help solve the state’s massive budget deficit.
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MORELIA, Mexico (AP) — Call it the case of the dead cells — both telephones and the ones in the brain. Employees at a Telefonica Movistar cell-phone store in Morelia, Mexico say they arrived Tuesday morning to find that the store had been broken into.
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MADRID – A British man who arrived at a Spanish airport after having too much to drink has been taken into custody – not for bad behavior but for being too generous.
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The Boulder Police Department is looking for a cross-dressing man wearing clown makeup who robbed a liquor store on Saturday night.
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