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AP - Nils Olav already has medals for good conduct and long service. He made honorary colonel-in-chief of the elite Norwegian King’s Guard in 2005. And on Friday he was knighted. Not bad for a 3-foot tall penguin — actually, three of them.

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Reuters - Armchair athletics may not be an
Olympic sport but it’s the most popular activity in China this
month, fuelling concerns about rising obesity rates.

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AP - An argument between two debate coaches that was caught on video was not the sharp-witted dialogue typically associated with college debate teams. Instead, the two traded profanity-laced barbs and one of them pulled down his shorts, exposing his underwear.

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AP - A 35-year-old Texas woman has been jailed after police say she made her 12-year-old daughter drive her to a bar.

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Reuters - Boy wizard Harry Potter played an
important part in Norwegian swimmer Sara Nordenstam’s bronze in
the women’s 200 breaststroke at the Beijing Olympics on Friday.

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AP - County wildlife control agents have evicted a neighbor of the Clintons — a 3-foot alligator fished from a pond in the tony New York suburb where the couple live.

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AP - A Baptist minister in central Pennsylvania has been sentenced to one year in jail for stealing the identities of his church members.

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AP - A grotesque comparison of a steamy love affair to a New York City street has won a Washington man this year’s grand prize in an annual contest of bad writing.

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AP - Gas prices have been falling — but not that much. A problem with a pump cost a San Antonio convenience store when premium gasoline accidentally sold for 38 cents a gallon. Manager Jim Duke at a Dill Food Market says that grade of gas was supposed to be selling for $3.89 a gallon.

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