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DURHAM, N.C. -- A Durham man accused of drunkenly driving into a yard was found after police followed a smelly trail of dog feces footprints. Police said 18-year-old Josue Herrios-Coronilla drove his black Camaro on the wrong side of the road Wednesday and crashed into the yard of Bill McDonald, the owner of four dogs. When police arrived, they found crushed bushes, a damaged fence, an inoperable car -- and a fresh shoe print in a pile of dog feces. Following an odoriferous trail down the street, Durham police Sergeant Dale Gunter noticed a white van driving toward him. When...

Anti-war demonstrator Cindy Sheehan was hospitalized Friday evening for dehydration and exhaustion after fasting for more than a month and protesting earlier this week in 100-degree weather, friends and relatives said. Sheehan was listed in stable condition at Providence Health Center in Waco. Brenda Mauk, a nursing supervisor, declined to release additional information. (SNIP) Sheehan, who has been on a liquid diet as part of the nationwide "Troops Home Fast" hunger strike, had been treated and released from a Seattle emergency room Thursday night. On doctors orders, she ate for the first time in about 37 days,

IF OPPRESSIVELY HOT and muggy weather wasn't clue enough, there was a sure sign of summer this week in the news out of Washington. Call it the Sandal Scandal - a flap that arose after a White House photograph of Northwestern University's national championship women's lacrosse team revealed four of the athletes posed next to President Bush were wearing flip-flops. Relatives of the students were aghast when they saw the pictures posted on the Internet. They feared the footwear might be interpreted as a sign of disrespect to perhaps the most formal venue in the nation. Etiquette arbiters dutifully cluck-clucked...

Today, January 27th 2004, the world as we know it changed. NASA's Mars rover "Opportunity" sent back to earth near absolute proof of life on mars . . . life of a form NOBODY ever expected. It would be monumental if the rovers geological tools and microscopic cameras sent back evidence of primitive life . . . and they may indeed do just that. But we do not have to wait. "Proof" is right there in panoramic photos received today . . . . DUCKS . . . GIANT MONSTER DUCKS ROME THE SURFACE OF MARS!!! . . . Either...