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January 8, 2015

Marijuana-infused soda bottles explode at Washington pot shop; worker says it sounded like gun

Bottles of legal marijuana-infused soda delivered to a Washington state pot shop started exploding on the store shelf.

January 8, 2015

73-year-old Navy vet sends check, apologizes to Florida paper 50 years after stealing racks

Seventy-three-year-old Navy veteran Bernard Schermerhorn says he's the kind of guy who tries to follow the straight and narrow.

January 8, 2015

Library engraves wrong Latin motto: 'We confirm all things twice' became 'We second-guess all'

The Latin motto engraved on the wall of a new library in southern New Jersey got lost in translation.

January 8, 2015

Church officials, preservationists trying to find gargoyles missing from Massachusetts church

Church officials and preservationists are trying to figure out what happened to several 1.5-ton gargoyles from a Massachusetts church.

January 8, 2015

Prosecutors: Montana burglar caught in the act apologizes, offers heroin to homeowner

Prosecutors in Montana say a man caught leaving a house he had apparently burglarized apologized to the homeowner and offered him some heroin.

January 8, 2015

Police: Family's hot air balloon, car and trailer taken from Albuquerque hotel

A California woman wasn't able to honor her late husband at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta after a thief made off with the balloon her daughter planned to pilot.

January 8, 2015

Loose crabs in plane's cargo hold briefly delay New York-to-North Carolina flight

If passengers on a delayed flight from New York to Charlotte, North Carolina, got a bit crabby, no one could really say they were being too shellfish.

January 8, 2015

Apparently errant Taliban tweet offers a location for Afghan spokesman: neighboring Pakistan

An apparently errant tweet by the Taliban's spokesman in Afghanistan gave his location as being in neighboring Pakistan.

January 8, 2015

Crews in Washington state say beaver has to go, as animal keeps rebuilding dams that pose risk

A road crew in Washington state has had it with a beaver that persists in building a dam under a bridge.

January 8, 2015

A farewell to clothes? Union says Irish soldiers need more uniforms, scrounge from comrades

Legend has it that Celtic warriors once charged into battle naked.