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November 12, 2008
A social networking website that connects classmates has been sued for consumer fraud by a subscriber who learned no former classmates were looking for him as the site had claimed. Anthony Michaels of San Diego, California filed the class action suit before a state court on Oct. 30 claiming the site's owners, Classmates Media Corp. and United Online based in Woodland Hills, misled him into subscribing and paying a $15 membership fee because he was told that old classmates were looking for him. However, one year after using his Gold Membership account in Classmates. com, he saw no former classmates looking for him and users who viewed his account were strangers to him.
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November 10, 2008
Anything is possible in America: Silverton City, pop. 9,588, has elected the United States' first transgendered mayor. Stu Rasmussen, who won a third term as mayor of Silverton, Oregon, will be coming back to city hall dressed as a woman with breast implants.
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November 8, 2008
The United States Coast Guard recovered a boat stolen from a Florida Keys dock in October off the Yucatan Peninsula with 15 Cuban migrants on board and two men suspected of stealing the vessel. The two suspects and the 2008 Hydrosport police say the men stole from a Plantation Key home, were returned to Florida on Friday, Nov. 7, according to a press release from the Monroe County Sheriff's Office.
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November 5, 2008
A United Airlines flight crew have tied an unruly passenger to her seat to restrain her until the plane landed in North Carolina to surrender her to police. Maria Esther Castillo, 45, of Oswego, New York, has been charged with interfering with the operation of a flight crew and resisting arrest before a federal court in Charlotte city. A hearing on her detention is set on Thursday.
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November 5, 2008
A discarded Space Station fridge crashed into the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand Nov. 1. Last year, Space Station astronaut Clay Anderson was left with no choice other than to toss the 1,400-pound ammonia tank into space because there was no room left on the shuttle to fly the broken fridge back to Earth, according to the United Kingdom's Daily Mail. It took more than one year for the fridge to penetrate Earth's atmosphere.
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