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Gifted Student Hospitalized After Drinking Liquid Nitrogen.

The Los Angeles Police Department says one of its officers was shot and wounded by Long Beach police.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Annapolis police raided the wrong apartment Wednesday night, using flash grenades and kicking a resident in the groin before they realized their mistake, police and the family said. Police spokesman Hal Dalton said something must have gone amiss in the briefing beforehand. "We don't know how the mistake was made," Dalton said.

My friend, noted Quebec academic and author Pierre Lemieux, submitted his firearms licence-renewal application directly to the Prime Minister's office this week. "Mr. Prime Minister," he wrote in a covering letter enclosing his Form 979, "I would like to suggest that you should enforce your own "laws" yourself. You will note that, as a proud descendant of the disobedient French Canadian coureurs de bois, I have not answered one of the form's indiscreet and obscene questions. I answered that my love affairs are none of your business." (Form 979 asks, among other things, about recently ended romantic relationships.) Atta boy,...

Niagara Falls, N.Y. - An illegal immigrant was rescued from an ice floe less than a mile upstream from Niagara Falls, authorities said. Guards from Ontario Power Generation said they heard the man screaming for help at about 4:30 a.m. Saturday near the company's water intakes near Chippawa, Ontario. "If he hadn't been discovered, he would have gone through one of those gates and then very likely could have been swept over the falls," said Peter Larsen, a control-dam operator at the intakes. Rescuers in boats plucked the shivering man from the ice floe...< snip > Authorities said the unidentified...