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Some wild turkeys, it appears, were trying to get out of New Jersey before Thanksgiving Day. A spokesman for the NJ Transit said train officials reported a dozen or so wild turkeys waiting on a station platform in Ramsey, about 20 miles northwest of New York City, on Wednesday afternoon. The line travels to Suffern, N.Y. "For a moment, it looked like the turkeys were waiting for the next outbound train," said Dan Stessel, a spokesman for NJ Transit. "Clearly, they're trying to catch a train and escape their fate." Transit workers followed the bird's movements on surveillance cameras. "I...

Woman Sets Snake on Fire After Apartment Management Tells Her to Deal With Reptile Herself After being told by her apartment complex management that it was not their responsibility to remove a snake for her porch, a woman set the reptile on fire and caused $1,000 damage to vinyl siding. Shatavia Kearney, 19, called the Charter Landing Apartments office Sunday and asked someone to remove a snake for her porch. Police said she told them she was told to deal with the situation herself, The Florida Times-Union reported Wednesday So Kearney doused the snake with a flammable liquid and set...

You have to click the link to see the image (no hotlinking allowed), but in today's cartoon, it says: "Mallard's More-Relevant School Bumper Sticker #30: My daughter was suspended for wearing a patriotic tee-shirt to school.*" The asterisk points to the disclaimer at the bottom which says: "* = True Story. See DenverPost.com or FreeRepublic.com"

Hot Dog Contest Okay, here's the deal... a guy I know is a teacher at a school where they're going to have a hot dog eating contest as a fundraiser for the basketball team. The kids can enter the competition for a donation, but they've decided that they're going to have two teachers compete as well. They have a poll running to decide what two teachers will be in the contest. It seems the vice-principal, Mrs. Jones, was encouraging students to vote for my friend because she was in the lead, but didn't want to win it herself. So, he...

Last October, Crystal Merillat was forced to accept the death of her 22-year-old son, U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. John Stalvey, who fell victim to a roadside blast while serving his country in Iraq. This past Saturday, Merillat had to relive some of that initial shock when she paid a visit to her son's grave and found a bronze monument the family had placed there was missing. "When we drove up to the cemetery that night, it was just like he had been killed all over again," said Merillat, who lives in northern Glynn County. The monument – a life-sized sculpture...

Macon police say a 75-year-old man shot and killed a 21-year-old who was burglarizing the older man's home this afternoon in the Peach Orchard neighborhood. Randolph Randy Baker was pronounced dead at about 3 p.m. at The Medical Center of Central Georgia after being shot in the head, police Lt. Carl Fletcher said. Police are not releasing the name of the homeowner. The older man entered his Irwin Avenue home and saw two men inside at about 2:15 p.m., Fletcher said. One man jumped out a window. Fletcher said Baker, the other man, was shot in the head. For more...

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When U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston, R-1, agreed to be on a Comedy Central news satire program, he knew he would probably come out looking silly. What he didn't realize, however, was that he would come out as an African-American. Kingston appeared Tuesday night in a recorded segment of "The Colbert Report," a spin-off of "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," that debuted Monday night on Comedy Central. The show is a parody of pundit shows like "The O'Reilly Factor" and "Hannity and Colmes." Hosted by "Daily Show" veteran Stephen Colbert, the show's guests range from politicians to national journalists, with...

A reindeer injured an elderly couple in the wilds of Finnish Lapland, in a rare attack that caused injuries needing hospital treatment, officials said Monday. A male reindeer suddenly appeared from a forest and attacked a man who was hiking Sunday with his partner near Kittila, about 620 miles north of Helsinki. The buck butted the man to the ground and kicked him before turning on the woman who was talking to her son on a mobile phone, Kittila fire chief Jorma Ojala said. The son alerted rescue workers who arrived in helicopters and flew the couple to hospital. The...

They're out there. The shooters, the choppers, the looters, the lines, the foul water and the bodies. Especially the bodies. "But we're in here," says Victor Fruge. Others — hundreds of thousands of them — had also escaped from New Orleans. But few could match the extraordinary, even miraculous odyssey of Fruge and his comrades — 16 mentally ill men and recovering addicts, cast out of their group home, Abstract House, by the storm. For a week the men stuck together through Hurricane Katrina and its rising waters, following a survival instinct like a candle in the dark and gamely...

Supreme Court Chief Justice nominee Judge John Roberts listens to a question from Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) during the second day of his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington September 13, 2005. Roberts was pressed by senators for his views on the strength of established legal precedent with regard to the controversial issue of abortion rights and the landmark Roe vs. Wade abortion case. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

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Feel good story from the hurricane.... woman gives birth while evacuating. Baby and mom safe and sound in Hattiesburg. Can't post the story because it's a Gannett site. News StoryPhotos

Sen. Jeff Chapman is not surprised that Senate Bill 86 has bobbed to the surface. Sparking renewed interest in the legislation sponsored by the Brunswick Republican and Sen. Tommie Williams, R-Lyons, this past session was the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June on an eminent domain issue in New London, Conn. The high court sided with the city, saying it is OK for the municipality to condemn and take residential property through the powers of eminent domain for private development for the sake of economic revitalization. Chapman is disappointed in the ruling, but says it just may be the catalyst...

Police Officer Pulls Over His Stolen Car CHARLESTON, S.C. - An off-duty police officer on a Sunday drive saw something awfully familiar — his recently stolen Volkswagen Jetta. North Charleston patrolman Ethan Bernardi whipped his cruiser around and pulled over the stolen vehicle. He called other deputies, who arrested three suspects, police said. "One of the advantages to having off-duty police officers using their patrol cars while off-duty is that they are able to respond to crimes when needed," North Charleston Police Chief Jon Zumalt said. Investigators don't know how the suspects got the car, which was recently stolen from...

It may have been Friday the Thirteenth, but it was a lucky day for Morse code--and particularly for veteran CW contest ops Chip Margelli, K7JA, and Ken Miller, K6CTW. During a May 13 appearance on NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, the pair was able to pass a message using good old fashioned Morse code more rapidly than a pair of teenaged text messengers equipped with modern cell phones. The victory, which replicated a similar challenge that took place recently in Australia, has provided immense encouragement to Amateur Radio's community of CW operators, who been ballyhooed the achievement all...

Huckaby: Big Brother could be watching Dan Magill owes me five bucks. And remember George Orwell's book, "1984"? Well, it's about 21 years late, but it is here. You might wonder what those two statements have to do with one another, but as former Georgia governor Gene Talmadge used to say, "I'm a comin' to that!" The late Lewis Grizzard used to enjoy telling about his days as a spotter for the University of Georgia football broadcast team and his days as a reporter for this very newspaper. According to Lewis, the job didn't pay much, but had lots of...

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Some of the most interesting shots of next Sunday's big Super Bowl game could come from a small camera. A very small camera. Fox Sports has planted so-called Turf Cams around Alltel Stadium in Jacksonville, Fla. -- including four on the field where the New England Patriots and the Philadelphia Eagles will play Super Bowl XXXIX. Eight more of the Turf Cams aren't in the turf at all -- they'll be mounted at the end zones. "They're so tiny, they're effectively the size of an eraser on a pencil," says David Hill, chairman of Fox...

CRESSONA, Pa. - An auto mechanic used a customer's sport utility vehicle to run an errand, left it in a parking lot with the motor running, then mistakenly took another running vehicle and returned to the garage, police said. Police said after they informed Michael Brown, 47, that he had taken the wrong vehicle, he returned it to the bank, where the customer's vehicle was still running and unlocked in the parking lot, police said. Brown mistakenly got into a pickup truck owned by Brian McHale, who parked two spaces from Brown's customer's SUV. McHale also left his truck running...

Retired U.S. District Judge William Augustus Bootle, who overruled Southern tradition and ordered the desegregation of the University of Georgia and Bibb County public schools, died early Tuesday. He was 102. Bootle died peacefully at his home between 1 and 1:30 a.m., said his daughter Ann Hall. "He went to sleep," she said. "We had been with him, my brother and I, that afternoon." The centenarian judge had rebounded from a pre-Christmas hospitalization for kidney trouble, but recently suffered a light stroke and was having heart failure, she said. Bootle served as judge in the U.S. District Court in Georgia's...