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LAS VEGAS (AP) – Among the many robots at the CES gadget show in Las Vegas this week is one busily making pizzas for hungry crowds. The robot from Picnic resembles an assembly line and can churn out 300 12-inch pies in an hour. Humans are still needed, though. A worker slides a frozen crust

DENVER, Co (AP) – A Colorado sheriff has rescinded his previous call for the public to be on the lookout for a command vehicle that may be operating the mysterious groups of drones spotted in recent weeks over parts of Colorado and Nebraska. The Phillips County Sheriff’s Office said

WICHITA FALLS, Texas (AP) — Police say a Texas man accused of choking and headbutting his girlfriend because she complained about the smell of his flatulence has been jailed on an assault charge. Officers responded to a home in Wichita Falls, Texas, on Sunday afternoon following a report that

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) – A Florida mom says doctors told her she had a better chance of winning the lottery than of giving birth to two sets of twins in the same year. But Alexzandria Wolliston says she feels like she hit the jackpot with the births of Mark and Malakhi in March and

MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) — It’s not what the Egyptians had in mind, but it worked: A group of Michigan high school students made a pyramid out of toilet paper — more than 27,000 rolls. It took 16 hours for students to assemble the pyramid at Bullock Creek High School in Midland County.

FLOWOOD, Miss. (AP) – Authorities in Mississippi say two men tried to scam the state lottery commission by submitting a losing ticket that had the winning numbers glued onto it. News outlets report 47-year-old Odis Latham and 48-year-old Russell Sparks were arrested Monday and charged with

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The parents of a 5-year-old girl say a Las Vegas dentist set their daughter’s mouth on fire as she underwent a routine dental procedure. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports the parents last week filed a lawsuit in state district court against Deep Karan Dhillon for

LAUREL, Md. (AP) — Police in Maryland say they’re looking for a person who lured a group of seagulls with popcorn before running them over with a car. The Daily Times reports that the incident occurred Saturday in Laurel outside a Dollar General. Police said that at least 10 seagulls were

LAS VEGAS (AP) – Charmin wants to solve a familiar feeling: being stranded on the toilet with an empty toilet paper roll. Its solution: a two-wheeled robot that can fetch a fresh roll. The robot, around 6-inches tall, has the face of a bear — like the cartoon ones in Charmin’s

LONDON (AP) – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II has marked the start of the decade with a new formal photograph of her and the first three heirs to the throne: son Prince Charles, grandson Prince William and great-grandson Prince George. The portrait was taken in Buckingham