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Chicago college offers class on Occupy movement A Chicago college is offering a class on the Occupy movement. Thirty-two undergraduate students are enrolled at Roosevelt University's "Occupy Everywhere" class. It's a three-credit political science course that looks at the movement that started last summer near New York City's Wall Street and spread nationwide.
Kobayashi downs record 337 wings at Pa. Wing Bowl Competitive-eating champ Takeru Kobayashi (tah-kah-roo koh-bee-yah-shee) conquered Philadelphia's annual gustatory gorge-fest by eating 337 chicken wings in a half-hour before a crowd of nearly 20,000 at Wing Bowl XX.
Kobayashi downs record 337 wings at Pa. Wing Bowl Competitive-eating champ Takeru Kobayashi (tah-kah-roo koh-bee-yah-shee) conquered Philadelphia's annual gustatory gorge-fest by eating 337 chicken wings in a half-hour before a crowd of nearly 20,000 at Wing Bowl XX.
Sheep herding Swedish bunny becomes online hit Champis the bunny doesn't only hop -- he also knows how to herd his masters' flock of sheep, possibly having picked up the skill after watching trained dogs do the job.
AD: Pet elk denied re-entry to Pennsylvania from W.Va. A runaway elk can't go home to Pennsylvania, even if it wanted to. More than a year after the 3-year-old elk escaped from his paddock, he's being denied re-entry to the state from West Virginia.
Inmate adds pig image to Vt. police cruiser decals A prison inmate who makes stationery and license plates pulled a fast one on state police by adding the image of a pig to the state decal on their cruisers.
Toothless Pa. bank robber says she needed dentures A woman who appeared to not have any teeth in surveillance photos from a bank robbery last month has confessed, apologized and told police she planned the heist because she needed the money for dentures.
