Posted October 16, 2007 
Comments(0) Pepsi has been trying to best Coke for years in the world-wide cola war, but Pepsi seems to have landed a blow in a hinterlands skirmish recently at a Wal-Mart in Indiana County.
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Posted October 12, 2007 Comments(0) GREENVILLE, Maine – Thumper, a black Labrador retriever, is getting credit for saving a Greenville man when a fire swept through his home.
Roland Cote said his wife and their 7-year-old grandson were away when the blaze started early Sunday in a converted two-story garage. He said Thumper grabbed him by the arm to wake him, leaving just enough time for him to dial 911 before fleeing the fast-moving fire.
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Posted October 4, 2007 Comments(0) A thief has stolen a life-size cardboard cut-out of a policeman that was intended to deter shoplifters at a supermarket.
Police say the cardboard cut-out replica of PC Bob Molloy had been doing a great job of deterring shoplifters in Long Eaton, Derbyshire.
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Posted July 25, 2007 Comments(0) GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- A young Florida girl who thought she was calling a sexual assault helpline got the complete opposite on the other end of the phone.
The 8-year-old girl was upset about the inappropriate behavior of another child. So, her mother told her to call the number for the North Central Florida Assault Center listed in the phone book and on the Attorney’s General’s office website.
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Posted July 19, 2007 Comments(0) CINCINNATI — A man with a needle sticking out of his arm crashed Wednesday afternoon into a Clifton Heights drug treatment center, witnesses said.
The driver, whose name has not been released, was arrested and taken to a hospital for treatment of unspecified injuries.
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Posted June 4, 2007 Comments(0) FOND DU LAC, Wis. (AP) – A 22-year-old Fond du Lac woman is arrested for drunken driving after her car hit the back of a beer truck.
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Posted March 1, 2007 Comments(0) A man charged with robbing a bank, for the second time since 2005, tried to show police the loot, but discovered he had been robbed, Fayetteville police said.
Joseph Thomas Mulkerin, 46, was arrested at a Bragg Boulevard motel Tuesday and charged with common law robbery of $2,179 from the Wachovia branch on Green Street, said police spokeswoman Jamie Smith.
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