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A giant exotic plant that has not bloomed in the Northeast in more than 60 years is ready to flower at the University of Connecticut's greenhouses. The "corpse flower" has the odor of 3-day-old road kill, and UConn botanists couldn't be more excited.
Police say a Rapid City man was robbed after he answered the door in the nude. Assailants overpowered him, hit him on the head and ran out with his wallet and blue jeans.
A tiger pawed through a Harlem apartment, a serval cat snarled in Troy, and an ocelot scared a lot of Long Islanders. Even the state Legislature saw something wrong with that picture.
German police said they were searching for thieves who made a clean getaway after stealing washing powder worth $90,710 from a trailer in the western town of Muelheim.
The southern French city of Marseille called off a three-week hunt for a black panther after the animal sighted by several residents turned out to be a large house cat.
Hungary's oldest working solicitor won an appeal against a verdict handed down in 1949 at a showcase Communist trial when his client, a Catholic priest, was jailed over his handling of church funds.
A man who tried to hold up a pharmacy with a needle he said was contaminated with AIDS gave up after the nervous clerk struggled to open the cash register, and he fled with just a chocolate bar.
It's not unusual to see art aficionados squint to see the details of a painting, but at this exhibit they have to squint just see some of the paintings.
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