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  Michigan boy fights city hall to keep his tree house

  

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  Posted 2:52 PM 2/3/2012 by NBC News (JG)

  A 13-year-old Farmington, Michigan boy isn't giving up his fight with city hall.

  David Ratze went before the city's Zoning Board of Appeals Wednesday night in an effort to save his tree house.

  The city said David's tree house, which stands about 26 feet tall, is too tall and breaks (More) • Video (1)

  
  

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  Man dressed as Depp's Jack Sparrow pepper-sprayed

  Posted 9:42 PM 2/2/2012 by Associated Press (SR)

  LOS ANGELES (AP) - Police say several people dressed as movie characters on Hollywood Boulevard got into a brawl that ended with a man dressed as "Pirates of the Caribbean" character Capt. Jack Sparrow being pepper-sprayed. Officer Rosario Herrera says it's unclear why the Sparrow (More)

  
  

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  Boat lost off Nantucket in 2008 washes ashore in Spain

  Posted 8:00 PM 1/26/2012 by NBC News (JG)

  The last time Scott Douglas saw his boat Queen Bee was during a fishing trip in Nantucket in August 2008.

  Douglas and his brother-in-law Rich were thrown from the boat.

  "The water was cresting," said Douglas, who now lives in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey. "It was breaking over the top of (More) • Video (1)

  
  

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  "Porn Cop" Wants Job Back

  

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  Posted 6:56 PM 1/26/2012 by NBC News (JG)

  Former Los Angeles traffic cop John Dancler is trying to get his job back.

  He was fired in July 2011 after he and another traffic cop appeared in a porn movie while on duty and in uniform.

  Dancler made his appeal Wednesday to the Los Angeles Civil Service Commission. He told the (More) • Video (1)

  
  

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  Breast implant saves woman's life

  

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  Posted 3:15 PM 1/25/2012 by NBC News (JG)

  A 41-year-old Florida woman says the breast augmentation surgery she had three months ago saved her life.

  Doctors say the stab victim's breast implant had just enough saline in it to stop the knife from piercing her chest.

  The victim says her ex-fiancé's new girlfriend, Amy (More) • Video (1)

  
  

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  Airline loses ashes

  

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  Posted 2:06 PM 1/23/2012 by NBC News (JG)

  Angeline O'Grady's husband Brian died from cancer last October.

  "He was a great guy -- he doesn't deserve this," O'Grady said.

  On November 1 she was on her way to England to scatter Brian's ashes in his hometown of Hull when the airline lost her husband's remains, she says.

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  Doctors remove 18 inch arrow from cat

  

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  Posted 4:32 PM 1/19/2012 by NBC News (JG)

  A 2-year-old orange tabby cat now goes by the name Cupid after he survived being shot with an arrow that pierced his shoulder blades.

  The stray was seen walking around a Houston, Texas neighborhood for three days with the arrow sticking out of his body, but no one could catch him.

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  Police say woman offered sex for McNuggets

  Posted 8:56 AM 1/17/2012 by Associated Press (SR)

  BURBANK, Calif. (AP) - Police say a Southern California woman offered McDonald's restaurant drive-thru customers sex for chicken McNuggets. Burbank police Lt. John Dilibert says 31-year-old Khadijah Baseer was seen opening the car doors of customers in a McDonald's drive-thru lane on (More)

  
  

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  Aliens in the Manger

  

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  Posted 9:46 AM 12/22/2011 by NBC News (JG)

  One Oregon nativity display is more of a close encounter of the third kind type.

  Portland artist Matt Henderson created the nativity scene using alien figurines.

  The display, which is inside a former church, also includes an androgynous Mary and Joseph and a shaman Santa Claus.

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  Wild and wacky stories from 2011

  

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  Posted 4:27 PM 12/21/2011 by NBC News (JG)

  VIDEO: Take a look back at some of the "not-so-serious" news of 2011.

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  Giant Lego Man may soon be released from custody

  

  Posted 12:30 PM 10/28/2011 by KO, The Associated Press

  SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) - The 100-pound, 8-foot-tall mysterious Lego man that was found on a Florida beach may soon be sprung from a holding room.

  Sarasota County Sheriff Tom Knight said Thursday that Lego-man could be freed from the shed where he's been kept for two days.

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  5-year-old backs car onto Ohio street, calls 911

  Posted 10:03 AM 10/26/2011 by Associated Press (JG)

  MANSFIELD, Ohio (AP) - Authorities say a 5-year-old looking for her mother in Ohio backed a car out of the driveway, then called 911 for help.

  Mansfield police say Ameleah Kegley backed the car out Monday evening after returning from school to an empty house.

  According to the (More)