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August 1, 2007
A taxi cab was tasked to keep a human heart for few hours at its dispatch office after an airline refused to keep it overnight at the Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids. The human heart, which was en route to a tissue processing company in Atlanta, was denied delivery by officials from Aeropoint Delivery Solutions of Marietta, Georgia. The cab company, however, said that it will keep the heart as the ice in the packaging to keep it intact.
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July 9, 2007
A Merritt Island newspaper carrier's close relationship with her customers and her attention to detail saved one man's life. Tonya Brand was on her normal route delivering the daily newspaper when she noticed one of her customers, Jean Plante, had not picked up his paper from the day before.
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June 30, 2007
An airport inspector in Bogota, Colombia has reportedly stopped a plot to ship $300,000 worth of cocaine to Panama. The cocaine was hidden inside sets of false teeth. Colombian police said in a statement that there was 20 pounds of cocaine inside the dentures, which were seized at Bogota's El Dorado Airport. This is probably the newest and the most creative ways of smuggling cocaine.
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May 24, 2007
It came as a shock for pregnant Stephanie Green when she was leaving for the hospital to get induced for her delivery but instead ended up giving birth to her second child in a car. It was the second time in 17 months; Green had baby Zaria Tuesday while en route to a hospital. "I thought I was gonna make it this time, but she changed all that very quickly," Green told AP.
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April 26, 2007
A 74-year-old man from man Pennsylvania's Susquehanna Township was recently charged with his second drunken driving while he was on his way to be present in court for his first drunken driving hearing. Police on Tuesday arrested Anthony R. Lilly after his car struck into a guardrail when he was en route driving for a hearing on a Feb. 8 drunken-driving arrest. This was the third time Lilly was charged for Driving Under Influence of alcohol.
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