Thief Takes 348 Pounds of Pig Meat
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CROMWELL, Ind. - A thief with a taste for pork put a damper on a fundraiser for scholarships by making off with nearly 350 pounds of porkburgers and hot dogs, police said.
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Hogzilla is being made into a horror movie. But the sequel may be even bigger: Meet Monster Pig. An 11-year-old boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog his father says weighed a staggering 1,051 pounds and measured 9 feet 4, from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail. Think hams as big as car tires.
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Letter: Reporter was basically receiving stolen property.
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Four purebred Yorkshire terriers stolen at gunpoint during a home invasion robbery more than a week ago were returned to their owners after a man turned himself in to police.
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By NO BYLINE  A THIEF sneaked through an open kitchen window and made off with a laptop computer worth GBP 400 along with some clothing.   The culprit broke in to the home in Kirkfield West, Livingston between 7.45pm and 11.15pm on Wednesday.
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JOHNSON, Ark., Feb. 16 -- A college student was arrested in the theft of a briefcase containing more than $140,000 from the home of the chairman of meat processing giant Tyson Foods Inc., police said Saturday.
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By Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Feb. 11--Pork was scarce in the Middle Ages, so merchants could command a pretty penny for a bag holding a baby pig.
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Smithfield Foods, the worldâs biggest hog and turkey producer, reported yesterday that quarterly net income doubled on rising beef and pork sales. Hormel Foods said its profit fell on higher costs to make Spam meat products and bacon bits.
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MILWAUKEE - This thief may want to rethink his approach. Police arrested a 49-year-old man for allegedly stealing several large pieces of equipment from a lumber yard after detectives followed drag marks to his house...
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VANCOUVER, Wash. - A man who failed to look before he swallowed and wound up choking on someone else's tobacco spit has been arrested in the theft of a tractor-trailer rig, police said.
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GREEN BAY, Wis. - A pig withstood taser shots from police officers and eluded authorities for more than an hour after wandering onto Green Bay's major highway. The 150-pound pig was spotted by a passing driver on U.S. 41 at 6 p.m. Wednesday night, Green Bay Police Lt. Todd LePine said.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jan. 31--DURHAM -- A man was arrested Monday night and charged with robbing the downtown Mechanics & Farmers Bank last week.
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A Fool turns a cheap clothier inside out.
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Social workers in Paris were astonished to find more than 68,400 euros (94,250 dollars) on a homeless woman when they moved her off the street last week, police said.
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QUEENSBURY, N.Y. - A New York City man has been arrested for the 100th time.  Officials with the Warren County Sheriff's Department in eastern New York said they found Anthony Love, 40, of Brooklyn with $1,300 worth of merchandise stolen from outlet stores in his car.
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HUBBARDSVILLE, N.Y. - Bob Peterson has one big pig on his hands. The hog named Norm, after the character on "Cheers," weighs an estimated 1,600-pounds, stands four feet high and measures seven feet from snout to tail.  Norm lives on Peterson's Madison County farm in central New York.
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A California meatpacker accused of animal cruelty is making the largest U.S. meat recall on record -- 143 million lbs, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Sunday.