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October 12, 2005
Topics help, creative, hurricanes, toys, stuff, cross, spread, homes, hurricane, heart, schools, lost, girl, food, children, money and people
An 8-year-old little girl with a compassionate heart and very loose tooth found a creative way to help people displaced by the hurricanes. Briton Nordmeyer of Brandon, South Dakota mailed her tooth to the Red Cross chapter in Sioux Falls, in hopes the tooth fairy would leave money with the charity instead of under her pillow.
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July 8, 2005
A father and son of Fort Myers, FL are accused of loading envelopes with stolen stamps worth more than $200,000. Charges have been leveled against 51-year-old Joseph Robert Baker and his son 21-year-old Matthew Robert Baker for allegedly siphoning off stamps from June to November 2004.
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June 23, 2005
Christina Ficara - All Headline News Staff ReporterPunta Gorda, FL (AHN) -
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May 3, 2005
Topics miss, women, stuff, beauty, elephant, crown, fat, beautiful, queen, zoo, student, university, money and people
A Thai Beauty contest held Sunday gave women with a little more meat on their bones the chance to strut their stuff and compete for the title of Miss Jumbo Queen. The annual pageant aims to raise awareness and money for Thailand's suffering elephant population. Women weighing 176 pounds and over strut their stuff for judges in beauty and talent competitions - fully representing the theory that "bigger is beautiful. "
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April 20, 2005
When you're a kid hanging out with mommy and daddy isn't always peaches and cream, but if you want to shop at the Pheasant Lane Mall on Friday or Saturday nights you're gonna have to take them along. Two weeks ago, in response to recent "disorderly and disruptive" acts, the security at Pheasant Lane Mall started passing out flyers detailing the Simon-owned mall's "general code of conduct," according to mall manager Ginny Szymanski. From 6 p. m. to 9:30 p. m. on Fridays and Saturdays, security guards stand outside two mall entrances to make sure anyone under 16 has someone over the age of 21 accompanying them. "That's when we approach them and give them a copy of the code of conduct and ask the parent to come in with them," Szymanski said. She said the code - which outlines 13 rules governing acceptable conduct and clothing, among other things - will be enforced by security. Szymanski said the mall rules have always been intact and posted, though the fliers were printed in response to the large amount of teenagers loitering, not shopping, on Friday and Saturday nights. If kids are found to be disrupting the mall's business, Szymanski said they will be escorted to the command center to call a parent to pick them up. "We're not out to punish anyone," she said. "We're just trying to better manage the shopping experience. " Shoppers interviewed by The Telegraph weren't too excited by the recent enforcement of the code. "I feel as though if I want to drop my kids off, I should. They're responsible," said Leann Newcomb of Lowell, Mass. , who was shopping Monday with her 15-year-old daughter, Ashley. Ashley felt the same. "I can come here and I can be fine without my mom," she said. This problem with kids' isn't happening at all New Hampshire malls. Scott Payrits, senior marketing manager at the Steeplegate Mall in Concord, said kids come to his mall to shop, not to be menaces. "We do not have any sort of problem with disruptive incidents, especially with kids," he said. "We have very good public safety. We don't have the need for a children-specific code of conduct. " One of the rules at Pheasant Lane prohibits dress "commonly recognized as gang-related. " Szymanski said they don't have a problem with gangs, it's the attire that the kids are wearing -- long chains, studded bracelets and necklaces that can be used as weapons -- that are the problem. Leann Newcomb questioned the code. "They sell that stuff," said Newcomb. "How are they going to tell the kids after they buy that stuff not to wear it? Isn't that a violation of your constitutional rights?"
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