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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — An anonymous person has paid $500 to a bar in Lincoln, Nebraska, for breaking a sign there 45 years ago. The Lincoln Journal Star reports that Zoo Bar owner Pete Watters recently found five $100 bills and a handwritten letter inside an envelope with no return address and no

Some guy literally asleep at the wheel on the Mass Pike (great place for it). Teslas are sick, I guess? pic.twitter.com/ARSpj1rbVn — Dakota Randall (@DakRandall) September 8, 2019 BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man has posted a video on social media that appears to show the driver of a

BAZA, Spain (AP) — Of all the sometimes bizarre summer festivals held in Spain, the Cascamorras event is probably the darkest. Some 15,000 participants throw black paint over each other for several hours every September in the small town of Baza, in the southern province of Granada. The

LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado city has stopped adding fluoride to its drinking water due to a shortage of the mineral that helps prevent cavities. Bob Allen, Longmont’s public works director, tells the Times-Call the city hasn’t added fluoride to the water in about a month. The

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a woman is banned for life from Walt Disney World in Florida after she hit a taxi driver and then kicked a deputy at the resort. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office says in an arrest report that Ellen McMillion of Brandon, Florida, hit the taxi driver

FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama high school has decided to remove some of the doors from its bathroom stalls in an effort to stop students from vaping in campus bathrooms. Wilson High School Principal Gary Horton told WAFF-TV the removal of some of the stall doors in the boys’ restroom

NEW YORK (AP) — Americans are addicted to snacks, and food experts are paying closer attention to what that might mean for health and obesity. The rise of snacking has seen packaged bars, chips and sweets spread into every corner of life. In the late 1970s, about 40 percent of American adults

HAMPTON, N.H. (AP) — A Connecticut man has scarfed down 21 lobster rolls to win a competitive-eating contest at the Hampton Beach Seafood Festival in New Hampshire. The Portsmouth Herald reports that Manny Camba, of Middleton, Connecticut, ate his way to victory. Contestants had 10 minutes to

  CRYSTAL RIVER, Fla. (AP) — It wasn’t Gotham City, but Batman descended on a Florida preschool to help a 3-year-old girl who was being bullied. When Erica Calculli’s daughter Lydia came home from school with bruises on her face, she chalked it up to regular kid’s play.

SHARONVILLE, Ohio (AP) — A man confused about Ohio drug laws has called a police department demanding that officers return the small amount of marijuana they “stole” from him. WXIX-TV reports the man told a Sharonville police dispatcher in an expletive-laced call Tuesday that