Strange News

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BERLIN (AP) -- An auctioneer says one of Apple's first computers - a functioning 1976 model - has been sold for a record 516,000 euros ($668,000)....

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A man who wears thong underwear and a cape while riding his scooter through Wisconsin's capital city may be a strange sight. But police say he isn't breaking any laws....

PHOENIX (AP) -- Judge finds Arizona sheriff's office racially profiles Latinos in immigration patrols....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Major stock indexes closed out their first weekly loss in a month in quiet trading Friday....

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Dan Brown's description of Manila as "the gates of hell" in the American novelist's latest book has not gone down well with officials in the Philippine capital....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A man wanted for 13 years on attempted murder charges in Los Angeles was captured in Colorado after someone called police to report he was urinating on a wall outside a KFC restaurant....

YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) -- Three members of a Michigan city council have abstained from voting on a measure that would have prevented them from abstaining on future votes....

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- For bicyclist Rudi Saldia, you could say a cat is his co-pilot....

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- One mistake by a clumsy crane operator caused a 10-hour blackout over about a third of Vietnam, exposing the fragility of the nation's power grid....

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) -- A goat believed to have escaped en route to a slaughterhouse snarled the morning commute along one of the busiest roadways in northern New Jersey on Tuesday, leading police on a nearly two-hour chase....

BANGKOK (AP) -- Researchers say Thailand is showing the world how to respond to the global food crisis: by raising bugs for eating....

CHICAGO (AP) -- A manager of Chicago's Navy Pier rode the tourist spot's Ferris wheel for more than two days - 384 times, up and around - bringing the world record for the longest ride to the birthplace of the amusement park favorite....

NEW YORK (AP) -- NBC went out of the company and out of the country to find a president for its news division, on Monday naming the first woman to hold the top job....