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AP - A New York Police Department rookie just couldn’t wait to get started. One of the NYPD’s newest officers has made his first arrest just minutes after graduating from the Police Academy in a ceremony at Madison Square Garden. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly says 23-year-old Officer Dariel Firpo is “off to a great start.”

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AP - Workers at the Frederick County Landfill were surprised by what they found in a large trash bin trucked in from a Goodwill Industries store: a woman who had apparently gotten trapped. “They opened the door and she got out,” said landfill manager Ron Kimble.

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AP - The Iron County sheriff’s office said an inmate tried to escape from a correctional facility by fashioning a fake bomb. Iron County Sheriff’s Deputy Aaron Pallesen said the 28-year-old inmate cornered an officer in a lobby while holding what looked like a silver device with a red detonator.

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AP - A Connecticut woman’s close encounter with the mythical beast, Sasquatch or Big Foot, turned out to be nothing more than a boy in a costume. Fairfield police said a woman driving last Tuesday night called police to report that she “almost hit Sasquatch,” which was standing in the middle of the road.

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AP - A northwestern New Jersey man said he was mugged in his driveway by a sandwich-craving bear. Henry Rouwendal said he was packing his car last Friday when he was hit from behind and knocked to the ground. He said the culprit was a black bear who took his Italian sandwich.

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AP - It must rank among the easiest fires ever to put out. Zurich authorities say police and firefighters were called to the house of an elderly woman early Thursday after she reported her television set was burning. When they arrived, they discovered no signs of fire or smoke.

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AP - Police say a group of Connecticut teenagers misunderstood a woman’s screams during sex and stopped what they thought was an assault by beating the woman’s companion.

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Reuters - The British military is mystified after what was first announced as a major haul of opium poppy seeds amounted to nothing more than a hill of beans.

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Reuters - Europe’s highest court on Thursday upheld the right of Dutch and Italian brewers to sell their ‘Bavaria’ beer in Italy, rejecting a bid by a company making a rival beer with the equivalent name in German to stop them.

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Reuters - A housewife from Sleaford in Lincolnshire will be the first of thousands of people to stand for one hour on top of a plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square as part of a 100-day “live sculpture” exercise.

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