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JERUSALEM - An Israeli woman swallowed a cockroach and then a fork she used to try to remove the insect from her throat. The winged cockroach jumped into the 32-year-old woman's mouth as she was cleaning her home in a village in northern Israel this week. "It's a bit of a strange story," said Dr. Nikola Adid, who operated on the woman Tuesday to remove the fork from her stomach. "This is the first time I've ever encountered anything like this. None of my medical colleagues in this country have heard of anything similar either." An X-ray showed the fork,...

..."Bat Boy can't talk, of course - but he showed us in his own inimitable way that he was there to endorse our man," the aide said. "He started screeching and excitedly pointing at a 'Gore for President' sign and shaking his head 'yes, yes, yes.' "Then he hopped over and started patting Mr. Gore on the back and shaking his head 'yes, yes, yes' again. "When he spotted a bumper sticker that said, 'I'm voting for Al Gore,' he held it across his chest and began excitedly pointing at himself. It was clear that he was saying, 'Yep, I'm...

MACON, GA (LAZNEWS) – A lawsuit launched to reclaim damages suffered by the owners of slaves and their descendant has moved to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. The suit names the United States Government, the NAACP, and several companies that supported Abolition in the 1800’s, most notably Con-Edison and the various Bell companies, which descended from the Morse Telegraph Company. Con-Edison was formed from Edison Company, and the Bell Telephone descended from the Morse Telegraph Company – both staunch opponents of slavery in the nineteenth century. "The robbery of our legal property will never be forgotten, never forgiven," remarked...