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• Should have known better

  Well, this is fun:
  The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said Joseph Imperato, 53, a lawyer in the Miami-Dade County public defender's office, was accused of selling a total 45 tablets of the powerful painkiller to the undercover police detective on two occasions this month, The Miami Herald reported Tuesday.
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 2:14am EST
  

• Stay in school, kids

  You probably shouldn't ditch school to rob a bank, but if you feel like you absolutely have to, you might not want to do so in quite such an ironic fashion:
  A local 17-year-old boy skipped school on Thursday to rob a bank –– but the police said his' [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 1:36am EST
  

• Stanfurd sucks!

  Cal wins the 112th Big Game 34-28 and The Axe stays where it belongs.
  
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 1:39am EST
  

• Since it's Friday night...

  ...and the people visiting here are more than likely from The Hostages...
  
  Um, yeah.
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 2:31am EST
  

• Excuse me?

  I don't know a whole lot about robbing a store, but I'm sure speaking clearly helps:
  Volusia County sheriff's deputies said Carlie McDuffie, 24, walked into a Family Dollar store and told an employee to hand over money from the register in a quiet voice that the clerk either [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:25am EST
  

• Wow, he gets great gas mileage!

  Nine hours and four hundred miles without stopping? That's amazing! [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:12am EST
  

• In this economy...

  ...it's tough to make a living. Especially when you're working as a door-to-door salesman:
  A 19-year-old Brownsville man is jailed on a drug charge after he allegedly went door-to-door trying to sell marijuana. A Brownsville police spokesman says Anthony Carrazco's alleged scheme went awry when he knocked on a' [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 1:28am EST
  

• Raise the threat level!

  Okay, so this is incredibly stupid...
  Officials at a Massachusetts high school that banned the word "meep" have been receiving e-mailed complaints about the move, police said.
  
  Danvers Police Sgt. Robert Bettencourt said officials from Danvers High School have sent him carbon copies of six e-mails complaining about [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 1:34am EST
  

• Since it's Friday night...

  ...and whoever is actually here is looking for some hotassery, here's Eliza Dushku...
  
  
  I tried to find a version of this where her hands weren't cropped out, but I got tired.
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 2:27am EST
  

• If, at first you don't succeed...

  ...you know the rest:
  Manjit Singh, a 59-year-old security consultant from Leicester, England known as the "Ironman," on Thursday pulled a double-decker bus weighing more than eight metric tons over a distance of 21.2 meters with his hair.
  
  The new record was set in central London to coincide [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 2:20am EST
  

• Thank You

  Happy Veterans' Day to everyone who has ever honorably served our country in uniform.
  
  
  
  Those of us who haven't served owe you a huge debt of gratitude. [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 4:30pm EST
  

• Imagine if you'd used it for Hannukah presents

  Um, how did you not notice this at the store?
  Casey Lehman of Seminole County said the wrapping paper, which she purchased at Dollar Mania in the Altamonte Mall, was covered in symbols that her mother and fiance agreed were Nazi swastikas, WESH-TV, Orlando, reported Tuesday.
  
  "If I" [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 2:41am EST
  

• Crime wave!

  Cops in Connecticut (try saying that five times fast) are apparently dealing with a rash of crimes. Bank robberies? Auto thefts? Home burglaries? Um, not exactly...
  In one of the largest recent cases, a 21-year-old Stratford man was charged with shoplifting about $800 worth of Orbit chewing gum from [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 2:13am EST
  

• Since it's Friday night...

  ...and, um, whatever, here's a picture of Elizabeth Banks looking retro-hawt:
  
  
  It's like the 1950s...in my pants! (Yeah, I know that it doesn't make any sense. You come up with something better.)
  
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 2:45am EST
  

• Horse senseless

  I know it's traditional for people to drink mint juleps at the Kentucky Derby, but I'm pretty sure most of them exercise a certain degree of moderation. And I'm almost positive that the jockeys don't guzzle them before the race:
  Despite a drinking ban mayhem erupted at a traditional [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 2:39am EST
  

• Candid camera

  If you're a pervert who wants to tape a bunch of people going to the bathroom, well, I hesitate to give you any advice, but...
  The Simi Valley Police Department said Joseph David Ramon Moreaux, 28, of Lancaster, Calif., accidentally taped himself hiding the camera between boxes in the' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 2:35am EST
  

• Drunk dialing saves lives

  I can't be certain, but I suspect this woman's ex might be a 911 operator...
  "Somebody's really drunk driving down Granton Road," Mary Strey said during an Oct. 24 call to 911, according to tapes.
  
  Trying to determine the location of the reported drunk driver, the dispatcher asked' [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 2:39am EST