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Prisoner dupes guards, grows pot in cell
Monday, December 7
MELBOURNE, Fla., May 14 (UPI) -- Police in Melbourne, Fla., went after a man seen heading into the woods Tuesday with a gas can that proved to hold only orange juice.
A passerby reported the sighting and told police the man was carrying a 5-gallon can of gas, Florida Today reported. Police went looking for the man, found him and discovered the container's contents were not combustible.
Police in the area are nervous about brush fires and the possibility of arson. At least nine were burning in Palm Bay, just southwest of Melbourne. Investigators believe they were deliberately set.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 9 (UPI) --
ABC News's chief Washington correspondent, George Stephanopoulos, has been hired to replace Diane Sawyer as co-anchor of "Good Morning America."
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (UPI) --
U.S. safety regulators have found that Zhu Zhu Pets, the robotic hamsters that are a hot toy this Christmas, are safe, officials say.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (UPI) --
The multibillion-dollar Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme fraud case has put a little-known U.S. agency at the center of a complicated debate on victim compensation.
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