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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A bill has been proposed in Vermont that would ban cellphone use or ownership for those under 21. The bill states lawmakers have concluded those under 21 “aren’t mature enough” to possess guns, smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol and the same should apply to

MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, Wyo. (AP) — Two men who pleaded guilty to trespassing on the cone of Old Faithful Geyser in Yellowstone National Park last fall were sentenced to 10 days in jail and have been banned from the park for five years. Park employees and other witnesses saw two people on the

PINE KNOT, Ky. (AP) — Drivers traveling along a Kentucky highway didn’t have to check their direct messages to be asked the infamous sexting request: send nudes. An electronic road sign that was hacked early Thursday morning asked drivers on Highway 92 in Pine Knot to “send

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DENVER, Co (AP) – A Colorado sheriff has rescinded his previous call for the public to be on the lookout for a command vehicle that may be operating the mysterious groups of drones spotted in recent weeks over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.

  The last daily “Peanuts” comic strip by Charles M. Schulz ran on January 3, 2000.  Check out these five things you may not have known about one of the most popular comic strips of all time… Schulz Died the Night Before His Last Sunday Strip Ran. On February 12,