PATNA, India (Reuters) – Farmers in an eastern Indian state have asked their unmarried daughters to plow parched fields naked in a bid to embarrass the weather gods to bring some badly needed monsoon rain, officials said on Thursday.
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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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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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LONGMONT, Colo. – Police in Colorado have confiscated 53 baby birds from a 15-year-old boy who apparently took them from neighborhood nests and stored them in his bedroom.
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YORK — Police are keeping an eye on a downtown York parking lot where merchants are complaining about soda cans filled with urine.

The merchants say that for the past couple months they’ve been finding a discarded can three or four times a week.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A sleepwalking episode led to a stabbing. The Kansas City Starreported on its Web site Wednesday that the 24-year-old victim suffered a stab wound to his face and shoulder. Police said the victim’s girlfriend awoke around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday to find her boyfriend urinating in the closet. He was intoxicated when he arrived at his apartment several hours earlier.
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