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June 23, 2005
A Lexington radio DJ promised his listeners "100 grand" if they were the 10th calle. Little did the listeners know, all they were competing for was a candy bar. Norreasha Gill won the radio contest and is suing after the station gave her a candy bar - a Nestle's 100 Grand - instead of $100,000. Gill filed a complaint in Fayette District Court against Atlanta-based Cumulus Media, which owns WLTO-FM in Lexington. Gill, 28, says the station and its parent company breached a contract to pay $100,000 to the contest winner. The lawsuit alleges night host DJ Slick sponsored the station's contest to "win 100 grand. " Gill won after listening to the radio show for several hours and being the 10th caller. She went to the radio station the next morning to pick up her prize, but was asked to return later. When she got home, she found that the station manager had left a message explaining she had won a 100 Grand candy bar, not cash. Gill says he later offered her $5,000. She refused, "I said I wanted $95,000 more. Nobody would watch and listen for two hours for a candy bar. "
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June 17, 2005
Mahatma Gandhi's family is pleading with the Indian government to force an Australian food take-out restaurant called Handi Ghandi -- "Great Curries. . . No Worries" -- to stop using the vegetarian pacifist to sell its food. According to its Web site ( www. handighandi. com ), the company sells a range of meat and vegetarian curries -- including beef, which is sacred to Hindus and forbidden.
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June 16, 2005
Topics billboard, wife, people, drawing, weather, single, signs, truck, web, driver, food, women, woman and man
Inspired by those sporting signs on roadsides such as, "Will work for food," a Nebraska man is seeking the one thing he's willing to work for - a wife. And he's apparently willing to do whatever it take to find one. Harold is 45, single, and in the market for a spouse. His efforts include the purchasing of a billboard with the message "Wife Wanted: willworkforawife. org, 'Walk by Faith, Not by Sight. '"
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May 17, 2005
The editors of Merriam-Webster dictionaries got more than 3,000 entries when they asked visitors to their Web site to submit their favorite words that aren't in the dictionary. Arthur Bicknell, a spokesman for the Springfield-based dictionary publisher, admited, "It was a lot of fun. We weren't expecting so many. They only had two weeks. "
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May 16, 2005
Topics piano, man, picture, hospital, wet, flag, hospitals, newspapers, swimming, beach, paper, england, web, water, police and search
Police found the man wandering near the beach in Kent, England. His suit was soaking wet, as if he'd just been swimming in the water and he refused to speak to anyone, offering no clues to his past. He was taken to a psychiatric hospital where he was given pen and paper. He drew a picture of a grand piano and a Swedish flag. When authorities escorted him to the hospital's chapel, he sat at the piano and played classical musical for hours.
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