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Payback time for Notre Dame's $29,000 tip

published Fri, Oct 30 2009 18:33 GMT
A woman mistakenly tipped $29,000 by the University of Notre Dame in her catering paycheck will return more than half of the money in $50 monthly payments.

Floridians try nutty way to save post office

published Thu, Oct 29 2009 16:30 GMT
The folks in Lantana, Fla. think the Postal Service would have to be nuts to close their post office and they're trying a coco-nutty way to prove it. Lantana's post office is one of more than 350 being studied for closure and residents have been mailing coconuts to Postmaster General John Potter along with requests that he spare their office.

It may be BYOB as fewer firms plan holiday parties (Reuters)

published Wed, Oct 28 2009 11:21 GMT
Reuters - The U.S. economy may have begun to recover in 2009, but holiday office parties are sinking even further into the dumps.

Courtroom feces-thrower gets 31 years

published Tue, Oct 27 2009 08:30 GMT
A man who sneaked a bag of his feces into a San Diego courtroom during his home-invasion robbery trial, smeared it on his lawyer and threw it at jurors has been sentenced to 31 years in prison.