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BARNSTABLE, Mass. (AP) -- Residents of the Cape Cod town of Barnstable have voted to change the community's form of government by a single vote.
GASTONIA, N.C. (NBC) -- Neighbors thought it was a Halloween prank. But yes, it really was a deer swimming laps in a pool.
NEW YORK (AP) -- A Michael Jackson costume is one of the top sellers for Halloween this year.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A judge has ordered Anna Nicole Smith's boyfriend and two doctors to stand trial on charges of illegally funneling prescription drugs to the former Playboy model.
VERO BEACH, Fla. (NBC) -- At eight months pregnant, Cristina Rangel is about to welcome a new member to her family. But what happened Monday night nearly sent her into early labor.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- A Sacramento County jury has awarded $16.5 million to the family of a 28-year-old woman who died after participating in a radio station's water-drinking contest.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Users of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 video game consoles can now brag about their achievements on Facebook.
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. (NBC) -- A homeowner knew something was amiss when he came home, opened his garage door and found a white Lexus that wasn't his parked in the garage. He couldn't have predicted what happened next.
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The physician being investigated in Michael Jackson's death reached an agreement Monday in a separate child support case that kept him out of a Nevada jail.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Paul Wendkos, who directed over 100 films and television shows during a 50-year career, including the 1959 surf movie "Gidget," has died. He was 84.
BOSTON (AP) -- Another sure sign that the holiday season is approaching: Boston is getting ready to welcome its official Christmas Tree.
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) -- Want to get away, Boss?
NEW YORK (AP) -- Items once belonging to Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff (MAY'-dawf) and his wife have fetched as much as 20 times their estimated value at a New York City auction.
LINCOLNTON, N.C. (AP) -- A North Carolina woman gave birth in the front seat of her car on the way to the hospital.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- NASA scientists say they "didn't find just a little bit," but "a significant amount" when they analyzed data from a spacecraft that NASA intentionally crashed near the lunar south pole last month.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The rumors are true, according to Sarah Palin: The McCain-Palin campaign was not a happy family.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Officials say Mike Tyson has been released from a Los Angeles police station after being booked on suspicion of battery for allegedly hitting a photographer at Los Angeles International Airport.
HAMILTON, Ohio (NBC) -- An Ohio teenager was suspended for getting a haircut shaped like a Bengals helmet.
ALTAMONTE, Fla. (NBC) -- A Florida woman says her Christmas wrapping is full of swastikas. Casey Lehman says she bought a roll of wrapping paper at a shopping mall in Altamonte, Florida in October.
LEE COUNTY, Fla. (NBC) -- A Florida family woke up to find out that something had attacked their car while they slept.
MIAMI (NBC) -- It's an annual battle of wits, water and will power in Miami.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (NBC) -- A high school girls' soccer match in Rhode Island turned violent Sunday night.
KNIGHTDALE, N.C. (AP) -- A pepper spray prank at a McDonald's restaurant in North Carolina sent six people to the hospital while 25 others were treated by emergency medical personnel at the scene.
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) -- A Colorado legislator says he will propose a bill to regulate Colorado's medical marijuana industry by cutting out individual distributors and creating a state monopoly.
NASHUA, N.H. (AP) -- A Nashua, N.H., man has become the first in the state to win a lottery grand prize twice.
STANDISH (NEWS CENTER) -- Imagine working on your feet 10 hours a day for 55 years? It may sound unbelievable but that's been the case for Roy St. Clair. The 77-year-old Naples man is the oldest licensed pharmacist in Maine.
TURNER (NEWS CENTER) -- Ten year old Alex Whitehouse learned the Heimlich Maneuver in Cub Scouts. Thank goodness he did.
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (NBC) -- Residents living along Northwest First Court in Boynton Beach, Florida are used to problems with their mail service.
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. (NBC) -- The detention deputy was sitting at his desk when the inmate attacked. The deputy is 64; the inmate is 40 years his junior.
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