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Reno police say a squid left cooking in microwave is the suspected culprit of noxious fumes that left two apartment dwellers queasy. Authorities don't know if the squid was put in the microwave as a prank or act of cruelty when they found it Sunday night. But they believe the squishy cephalopod was stuck in the microwave by burglars and left to cook in a communal kitchen. Two residents made ill by the fumes were treated at a hospital. Police were still investigating Monday.

Preserving the Earth, One Joke at a Time By MICHAEL JANOFSKY Published: November 19, 2005 Jeffrey Tambor performing at the comedy show "Earth to America." Isaac Brekken for The New York TimesLAS VEGAS, Nov. 18 - Ice caps are melting. Oceans are rising. Villages are disappearing. Wild animals are not quite sure what is going on. Pretty funny stuff, eh? Well, on Thursday night it was, as a parade of comedians and a few serious actors joined forces here at Caesars Palace for two and a half hours of environmental consciousness-raising in a live show called "Earth to America," focused...

A Tri-State woman looking for a quick and easy tan received an eye-opening burn instead. Larri Brown of Williamstown, Ky., got into her home tanning bed last week and set the timer. Then she fell asleep. The timer was supposed to shut off the ultraviolet lights after 20 minutes, but the timer stuck. Three hours after she first climbed into the bed, Brown's husband, Steve Brown, found his sleeping wife and pulled her out of the bed. "We went to the hospital, but because it was a tanning bed burn, they couldn't do anything because the burn comes from the...