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A Seattle radio station's April Fools' Day joke about Bremerton's water supply went too far, scrambling city and county officials to calm residents' concerns.
Being funny without being offensive is tough to do, which is why three college newspapers that published April Fools' Day editions — those at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Scranton and the University of Nebraska at Omaha — are in trouble.
For April Fool's Day, we've assembled a collection of tall tales and unbelievable true stories. See whether you can discern which stories are the real deal and which are just too wacky to have happened.
Unsuspecting readers of Norway's paper-of-record Aftenposten on April Fool's Day were duped into believing that health authorities planned to plant electronic ID chips under patients's skin to better evaluate their needs.
A Calgary brokerage touted new ways to fuel northern Alberta's massive oil sands developments in a research report promising power from flatulent cows.
Joke radars were in high gear as April Fool's Day pranksters took aim at everything from luxury transportation to avid joggers and Alberta's rival NHL teams.
Tech-crazy Swedes nearly choked on their morning coffee on April Fools' Day when the country's largest newspaper reported that billions of dollars had been unnecessarily invested in next generation mobile phone technology since old mobiles aimed at TVs could show movies.
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry doesn't have a Republican-leaning French cousin. President Bush is not pushing legislation that would have other countries pay off the deficit. Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Arlen Specter is not retiring to study Scottish Common Law.
The spray-painting of a prominent billboard in Singapore with a controversial political message was portrayed in the media as the most outrageous act of vandalism in a decade.
Fans of Howard Stern were horrified to hear that the radio shock jock was yanked off the air and replaced by a more wholesome show only to find out later it was all an April Fool's day prank.
Yum cha restaurants in Chinatown will now have to train workers who push food carts to pass a "driving licence" under new regulations from Sydney City Council.
The U.S. Postal Service plans to launch next month a national "Portable Zip Codes" program. Under the program, Americans would be able to keep their current zip codes no matter where they moved, whether across the country or across town.
Die-hard pranksters consider it their obligation each April Fools' Day to plant phony news stories, concoct wild hoaxes and use an assortment of gadgets and gizmos to ensnare their unsuspecting victims, all in the name of smirks and giggles.
Don't ever doubt President Bush does not have a sense of humor. As an April fools joke President Bush called on a press conference and asked reporters to come witness the signing of a new law that would make same sex marriage legal in the United States.
Congress today passed legislation that expands the legal rights of the fetus by declaring that the womb is an occupied residential dwelling and therefore subject to state and federal housing codes.
Practical jokes and pranks are common on April Fools Day, but there are some real benefits in laughter throughout the year. Here are some Web sites that will assist you in finding the lighter side of things.
The Walt Disney Company Board of Directors, mindful of the shareholder vote of March 3, 2004, announced that it is merging the Walt Disney Company with the Wal-Mart Company to create the world's largest retailing and entertainment conglomerate, which as of April 1, 2004 will be renamed The WaltMart Company.
In this article, we will look at the new face of ammunition in the U.S. Armed Forces, and see how the art of war is about to be brought to a whole new level thanks to Uncle Sam.
Prime Minister Tony Blair has today disclosed that the claims regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq have just been part of a long, protracted April Fools joke.
This morning, WAPE 95.1 ran an April Fools Joke that the National Football League held a meeting last night and moved the 2005 Super Bowl game from Jacksonville to New York.
A handful of northern Michigan lawyers sent an April Fools' Day letter to the New York Yankees, asking the team not to display advertisements on their traditional pinstriped uniforms.
In a rare example of environmental co-operation, mayors across the megacity have joined to rush through a temporary bylaw requiring joggers in parks to run no faster than 10 km/h.
An online news posting declaring that Miami Beach Mayor David Dermer would perform 2,000 gay and lesbian weddings today drew calls from several gay couples who wanted to join the ceremony — and the ire of others when the announcement turned out to be an April Fool's Day hoax.
It's not like Internet search service Google can't laugh at itself, but when an April Fools' Day joke got out of hand, a real business plan just announced by the company was also rumored to be a Web hoax. And for the company, that was no laughing matter.
Drought conditions across northern Australia are forcing some fresh water crocodiles into southern river systems, according to reptile expert Steve Sass.
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