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A suspected beer thief in Kentucky tells police he's "beyond drunk" at the scene.

A Texas man with no military experience tricked the Army into letting him enter a reserve unit as a noncommissioned officer earlier this year, a deception that placed an untrained soldier in a leadership position in a time of war, an Associated Press investigation has found.

Yahoo! Sports
NASCAR's All-Star race needs tweaking
Yahoo! Sports
NASCAR can't really allow teams to bring radical setups and designs which would normally be laughed out of the inspection bay. And for safety purposes, ...

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President Barack Obama was nearly upstaged by a rodent in the Rose Garden.

CEO Of Contracting Company Improves The Look Of Stanford Who's Who
24-7PressRelease.com (press release)
Babco Contractors of Maryland is a licensed home improvement contractor and a NAHI certified home inspector. They offer construction management, ...

Murder suspect awaits verdict
Akron Beacon Journal
In buying a house, he said, would it be wise to rely upon a home inspector who ''came stumbling on the scene with alcohol on his breath? ...

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When walls start cracking
The Free Lance-Star
The home inspector they brought in before the sale pointed out the work that had been done. He said the method appeared somewhat unconventional to him, ...

Construction project at Myers Park Presbyterian Church raises concerns
WBTV
"Site inspections on May 7 and 10 by the City of Charlotte urban forestry specialist Kathryne Pearce (also a certified arborist) revealed that two trees ...

How to hire a home inspector
CTV.ca
Bruce Hunter is a veteran home inspector often called in to find what other inspectors may have missed. He has some words of advice for anyone looking for a ...

Irish Times
Babes in the burbs
Irish Times
The first year we kept pigs, we called them Charlotte and Wilbur, which was a mistake because it's doubly difficult to kill animals that are named after the ...

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City animal control officers have started removing hundreds of large, feral rats from inside a Las Cruces rental home.

When a flight to Denver was diverted during stormy weather, the flight crew made sure their passengers were taken care of. They ordered pizza.

Retire Ronald McDonald? No way.

NASCAR Hall of Famers Bill France Sr., Bill France Jr., Richard Petty, Junior ...
ESPN
But now Foyt had disappeared inside the inspection station, and here came the old man, at 6-foot-5 towering over everybody else, an intimidating presence ...

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A 9-year-old Saginaw girl is credited with saving her family from a Wednesday morning fire.

The parents of an 14-month-old girl are under investigation after a bus driver found the girl crawling in the middle of the road.

They're not furry animals, neither male nor female and have no cutesy names.

Officials say a mix-up led a school bus driver in northern New Jersey to start to take students to an amusement park instead of school.

A trio of muggers probably never expected a band of Australian ninjas to come to the aid of their victim.

Home inspection compensation
CTV.ca
"That's why every home inspector in British Columbia now has to have insurance." Forty thousand dollars is not big enough for most lawyers to take on and ...