Statistics And Other Lies
Sheriff: Family cremated mom on BBQ, kept benefits
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Sentenced to 20 hours of Bach, rap fan lasts minutes
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URBANA, OHIO — A defendant had a hard time facing the music.
Andrew Vactor was facing a $150 fine for playing rap music too loudly on his car stereo in July. But a judge offered to reduce that to $35 if Vactor spent 20 hours listening to classical music by the likes of Bach and Chopin. Vactor, 24, lasted only 15 minutes, a probation officer said.
Duo claim record by watching 57 films in 123 hours
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NEW YORK (AP) -- You may want to try this at home. Suresh Joachim, of Toronto, and Claudia Wavra, of Petersburg, Germany, claim to have broken the Guinness World Record for movie-watching, after seeing 57 films in 123 hours in a plexi-glass house in Times Square.
Mackerel Economics
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When Larry Levine helped prepare divorce papers for a client a few years ago, he got paid in mackerel. Once the case ended, he says, "I had a stack of macks."
Real Home Sells For $1.75 On EBay
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Las Vegas rolling the dice on its new mob museum
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LAS VEGAS -- Las Vegas hopes its newest museum will be a hit.
The city is opening The (redacted) Museum: The Las Vegas Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, which will showcase southern Nevada's colorful and storied past in organized crime.
"I'll buy your house if you'll buy mine" is the latest real estate marketing tactic.
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Sher and Luke Bruun have outgrown their two-bedroom Apple Valley townhouse and are itching to get into a house with more room for their family.
In the 1990s, your family came for dinner. Now they're moving in.
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The number of parents, siblings and other relatives who live with adult heads of households grew 42% from 2000 to 2007, according to data released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Leading the way: parents, up 67%, to 3.6 million.
The shadow banking system is unravelling
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Virginia town tries to prove existence of 'ghost cats'
A cougar pelt is on display at a hardware store in Blackstone, Va., (AP Photo/Steve Helber / August 15, 2008)
