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Ferris wheel ride world record broken in Chicago
A manager of Chicago's Navy Pier rode the tourist spot's Ferris wheel for more than two days — 384 times, up and around — bringing the world record for the longest ride to the birthplace of the amusement park favorite. "I thought Chicago should have that title," Clinton Shepherd said ...
Pug Life on Display at Wisconsin Festival
A weekend event in Wisconsin was all about pugs. Hundreds of pugs and their owners dressed in costumes, took part in competitions and just enjoyed the pug life. (May 20)
Company Promises to Make All Snail Mail Digital
A San Francisco company is taking paperless to the next level, converting all conventional mail and sending it to your smartphone or tablet. (May 20)
Denmark's de Forest wins Eurovision song contest
Denmark's Emmelie de Forest has won this year's Eurovision Song Contest with her ethno-inspired flute and drum tune "Only Teardrops," despite tough competition from spectacular stage shows by performers from Azerbaijan and Ukraine. Juries and television viewers across Europe awarded the barefoot, hippie-chic 20-year-old for the catchy love song that ...
Raw: Crash Sends Car Into Fla. Pool
Surveillance video from the Ocean Inn in Fort Lauderdale, Florida captures the moment a car hit a parked vehicle, sending it into the pool. (May 17)
Hot Chicken: Gaza Smugglers Offer KFC
Fried chicken is the latest 'luxury' being smuggled through tunnels from Egypt into Gaza. (May 17)
Raw: Bear Falls From Tampa Tree
A Tampa man got more than he bargained for when he opened his door to let the dog out. A black bear was in his backyard. (May 17)
Funeral home has bicycle hearse for 1 last ride
An Oregon funeral home in Eugene offers natural burials where the ride to the person's final resting place is on the back of a three-wheeled bicycle. Sunset Hills Cemetery and Funeral Home director Wade Lind says he got the idea from bikers and designed the pedal-powered hearse himself. It has ...
Exhibition of secretly shot photos upsets NYers
Residents of a New York luxury apartment building are livid over an exhibition of photos secretly snapped through their apartment windows. Photographer Arne Svenson pointed his camera at the oversized windows of the Tribeca (try-BEHK'-uh) building from his second-floor apartment across the street. The images show residents doing mundane things ...
Wash. state woman spots stolen car in drive-thru
A Washington woman whose car was stolen from her apartment complex saw the stolen SUV hours later — in the drive-thru of the McDonald's restaurant where she works. The Tri-City Herald reports (http://bit.ly/11H2tDS ) Virginia Maiden called police Tuesday after seeing her SUV in the drive-thru. Officers arrested the driver, ...
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