Granny finds grenade in groceries
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A 74-year-old Italian grandmother  who bought a sack of potatoes at the her local market found a  live grenade among the spuds.
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Police are investigating an assault in which an elderly woman was badly beaten during a burglary at her home.
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UNION, Mo., Sept. 16 -- A grandmother of a newborn girl stolen from a rural home pleaded Saturday for the baby's safe return, as authorities searched for an abductor who stabbed and seriously injured the infant's mother before fleeing with the child.
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has made it clear. The cooking utensils are in storage and the shopping cart is at the front door, ready to be filled.
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ELKHART, Ind. - A woman heading home from a store was surprised to find a man accusing her of stealing his van. The 71-year-old woman was leaving Wal-Mart about 9 p.m. Saturday with her great-nieces and great-nephews when a man walked in front of her van, forcing her to stop.
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For Thanksgiving, Annie Johnston, her grandson and some neighbors made green bean casserole and stuffing and ate outside by flashlight. They had the meager leftovers for the next three days. They had hoped that by Christmas &#151; three months after back-to-back hurricanes hit &#151; life would be easier. But the days have only become harder for many poor families like Johnston's.
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JAKARTA - A hand grenade has been found in the grounds of the Hilton hotel in Jakarta Monday after warnings that extremists were planning to attack the chain&#39;s Indonesian hotels, police said.
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A blast bomb is found in the garden of a house in County Tyrone, following an overnight security operation.
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DALLASTOWN, Pa. - Bree Thornton made quite a find on a Florida beach as she was picking up trash. The 15-year-old came across a 20-pound brick of pot, about the size of a shoebox.
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HILLSIDE, N.J. - Police here say a man charged with drug possession had an unusual place to store his stash: his 6-year-old daughter's jacket pocket. Dennis Riker, 41, raised suspicions Monday morning when he stopped by his daughter's school in Hillside, saying he had left his keys in her jacket.
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From baggy briefs to the ultimate hotpants: A British woman's underwear saved the day by doubling as an emergency fire blanket when her kitchen caught fire. John Marsey and his cousin Darren Lines were frying bread in Jenny Marsey's kitchen in Hartlepool, northeast England, on Sunday when their meal caught fire.
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MEDJUGORJE, Bosnia -- Nora McNulty, a Scottish grandmother, began climbing the hill at 5:50 a.m., having traveled 1,300 miles in search of something hard to find at home.
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A pipe bomb is found at a house in Antrim after information is passed to the police.
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SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. - A grandmother found with a trunkful of marijuana was convicted of drug running in what prosecutors said was an attempt to earn cash for a bingo habit.
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Before Lisa Taleghani can get organized, she has to get rid of the junk. Three generations of it is crammed into the attic, basement, and back porch of her late grandmother's home in Revere.
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The Irish have embraced the use of cloth bags to carry their groceries, encouraged by a 33 cents tax on each plastic bag grabbed at the register.
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By Jake Batsell, The Dallas Morning News  Feb. 12--PLANO -- Meet Michele Carey-Dave, suburban mom and self-proclaimed tree-hugger.   She rinses out Ziploc bags and reuses them. She hauls groceries in cloth sacks.