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Champ retains NYC hot-dog eating title in overtime
(AP)
AP - Joey Chestnut achieved frankfurter immortality Friday, outdueling his celebrated Japanese rival in an epic hot-dog eating contest that pushed both of the gluttonous gladiators to the brink.
Read Champ retains NYC hot-dog eating title in overtime (AP) (Links)
AP - Britain's High Court has ruled that Pringles are not a potato snack, and thus are not subject to value-added tax.
Read UK court: Pringles are potato-light, tax-free (AP) (Links)
Reuters - So much for "love is blind." A contestant has been expelled from a popular Chilean TV dating show after he was found to have had previous acting experience -- in a pornographic movie.
Read Chile reality show contestant expelled over porn (Reuters) (Links)
Chestnut wins hot dog contest after eat-off
(AP)
AP - Joey Chestnut reclaimed the top spot at the annual hot dog eating contest in Coney Island on Friday after first tying with archrival Takeru Kobayashi in a 10-minute chow-down and then beating him in a five-dog eat-off.
Read Chestnut wins hot dog contest after eat-off (AP) (Links)
Couple maintain Portugal's ceramic penis tradition
(Reuters)
Reuters - Husband and wife Francisco and Casilda Figueiredo are among the last exponents of a traditional Portuguese handicraft -- making ornamental ceramic penises.
Read Couple maintain Portugal's ceramic penis tradition (Reuters) (Links)
AP - A 60-pound tortoise that escaped from a family's garage last month is back home after a 2 1/2-week adventure that took him through three northwestern Indiana towns.
Read Tortoise returned after 2 1/2 weeks on the lam (AP) (Links)
Ben Franklin, Betsy Ross actors wed in Philly
(AP)
AP - Benjamin Franklin and Betsy Ross celebrated the eve of the Fourth of July not with fireworks but with wedding vows.
Read Ben Franklin, Betsy Ross actors wed in Philly (AP) (Links)
1851 gun used in Civil War returns to Arkansas
(AP)
AP - An 1851 artillery gun carried into battle by Arkansas military school students who joined the Confederate Army was unveiled in its home state Thursday after nearly 150 years.
Read 1851 gun used in Civil War returns to Arkansas (AP) (Links)
AP - A college student claimed it was all a joke when he put his vote in this fall's presidential election up for sale on the Web auction site eBay. But prosecutors didn't see the humor.
Read Minn. teen charged with offering his vote on eBay (AP) (Links)
AP - An Illinois woman says her beloved miniature dachshund gnawed off her right big toe while she was asleep. Linda Floyd told the Alton Telegraph for a story Wednesday that her beloved Roscoe was euthanized because of safety concerns.
Read Miniature dachshund gnaws off diabetic owner's toe (AP) (Links)
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