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January 30, 2006
Police report that a church secretary set her church ablaze. A spokesman with the Mountain Home Police Department says that Polly A. Warford, 65, confessed to setting multiple fires in the Green Valley Missionary Baptist Church.
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January 15, 2006
For the first time ever, Greenville County in South Carolina will officially observe the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday Monday. The county is last in the state to do so. Officials voted last year, after pushing by Rev. Jesse Jackson for years and years, to observe the holiday. This gives employees a paid holiday to observe the third Monday in January.
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January 8, 2006
A Canadian man was upset when his bank began outsourcing some of its credit card processing to the United States. So, he got revenge by making dozens of tiny online payments a day, effectively jamming the bank's computers, reports Reuters
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January 6, 2006
A new chord was sounded on Thursday in an avant garde composition that will take 639 years to perform. Written by experimental composer John Cage, the world's slowest concert began Sept. 5, 2001 and is scheduled to last until 2639, reports Agence France-Presse
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January 6, 2006
A Canadian man was upset when his bank began outsourcing some of its credit card processing to the United States. So, he got revenge by making dozens of tiny online payments a day, effectively jamming the bank's computers, reports Reuters
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