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August 18, 2006
The "senior citizen bandit" has pleaded guilty to at least 10 counts of armed robbery. He also pleaded guilty to one firearms count after robbing banks in three Western states,. According to Assistant U. S. Attorney, Ivy Wang Charles Manrow, a 70-year-old robber from Pennsylvania, will be sentenced early next year after entering a plea on August 10. Manrow is linked to robberies in Southern California, Fresno, Utah and Arizona.
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July 21, 2006
In what was one of the longest games in the history of professional baseball, the Oneonta Tigers beat the Brooklyn Cyclones, 6-1, in 26 innings in a New York-Penn League game Thursday night. Deik Scram hit a run-scoring single in the 26th inning to give the Class A Tigers the lead. They tacked on four more runs to ensure victory in the marathon game that took 6 hours, 40 minutes to finish. It was the was longest New York-Penn League game ever played.
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June 5, 2006
Topics baseball, schools, school, cookies, personal, computer, boys, game, food, water, boy, family and student
Richmond, VA (AHN)-An eighth-grader was suspended from school for a day and kicked off the baseball team for eating a staff member's cookie. According to the AP report, Jeremy Maitland was in the Hungary Creek Middle School kitchen one day last month filling a water cooler for a baseball game when he ate a cookie after someone knocked over a cookie jar and he tried to pick them up.
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June 4, 2006
The Gateway Grizzlies, St. Louis' single-A baseball team, will serve up an unhealthy and loveable snack this season; a cheeseburger on a Krispy Kreme doughnut bun. According to CBS, for a mere $4. 50 it's breakfast, dinner, and a little dessert all in one. That it packs up to 1,000 calories - the donut alone has 10 grams of sugar - doesn't seem to faze diabetic diner Floyd Schuetz, who says, "Oh, I'll have another one of these. "
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May 28, 2006
One rental car came loaded with an extra no one paid for; a 2 ft. long ball python. When the assistant athletic director at Eastern Kentucky University, Dan McBride, left the Ohio Valley Conference baseball tournament in Paducah, he had more than just the team with him.
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