AP Strange NewsBrief at 4:14 a.m. EDT

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AP Strange NewsBrief at 4:14 a.m. EDT

Released : Monday, August 18, 2008 4:14 AM Seeking ugly women for Outback's lonely hearts
SYDNEY, Australia (AP), Life can get a little lonely for bachelorsin the Australian Outback mining town of Mount Isa. So the mayorhas offered up a solution: recruit ugly women. Mayor John Molonyfound himself under attack Monday over comments he made to a localnewspaper that read: "May I suggest if there are five blokes toevery girl, we should find out where there are beauty-disadvantagedwomen and ask them to proceed to Mount Isa." Whale calf lost in Sydney waters, bonds with yacht
SYDNEY, Australia (AP), Australian media say a lost humpback whalecalf has bonded with a yacht it seems to think is its mother. The1- to 2-month-old calf was first sighted Sunday in waters off northSydney, and on Monday tried to suckle from a yacht, which it wouldnot leave. Egypt: Septuplets' mother hopes to hold them soon
CAIRO, Egypt (AP), A day after giving birth to septuplets, a27-year-old Egyptian woman said Sunday she's only seen her babieson television and hopes to hold them and name them soon. GhazalaKhamis was still hospitalized after giving birth a day earlier tofour boys and three girls. She said she is "very anxious to seethem" and to breast-feed at least some of them. Pigeon found at NYC playground was painted purple
NEW YORK (AP), Pigeons come in many shades in New York City, butpurple is typically not one of them. That's why animal lover JoeMora was stunned when he saw a pigeon at a Queens playground thathad been painted a violet hue. Georgia men claim hairy, frozen corpse is Bigfoot
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP), Bigfoot or big fat lie? Whenever someonereports sighting the hairy beast of yore (details always fuzzy) orcapturing the hirsute humanoid on film (images always grainy), itscares up a dubious debate of international proportions. Friday wasjust the latest episode in the Sasquatch show, as unreal as it maybe. Two men who claim to have stumbled across a Bigfoot corpse inthe woods of northern Georgia indignantly stood by their story at anews conference in Palo Alto during which they offered an e-mailfrom a scientist as evidence and acknowledged they wouldn't mindmaking a few bucks from the "find" they have kept stuffed in afreezer for over a month. Woman accused of beating fiance at prenup party
POULSBO, Wash. (AP), A Poulsbo woman was jailed after being accusedof beating up her fiance at their prenuptial party. Kitsap Countysheriff's deputies said the woman's 12-year-old son told her he sawher fiance kissing one of her women friends early Thursday morning.Deputies said the woman, 31, gave her friends the boot, told herfiance to leave, too, and then started hitting him in the face. Bearded man in women's garb accused of tip theft
FAIRFIED, Conn. (AP), Fairfield police said they didn't have muchproblem tracking down a theft suspect, a bearded man dressed in atank top and capri pants. Police say a 22-year-old Norwalk man wascaught on tape taking $30 from the tip jar at O Bar Wednesdaynight. Police say the man was found a short time after the managerof the bar noticed the missing tip jar and checked the bar'ssurveillance video. Forgotten bifocals leads to $3 million jackpot
ROANOKE, Ind. (AP), A man's forgotten bifocals led to a $3 millionlottery jackpot. Bobby Guffey usually plays the same combination ofnumbers representing the birthdays of his five children. But heleft his glasses at home when he bought the winning ticket Aug. 6,accidentally entering the last number as 48 instead of 46. TheHoosier Lotto ticket ended up being worth $3 million. Ark. man finds 4.42-carat diamond at state park
MURFREESBORO, Ark. (AP), A local diamond hunter found a 4.42-caratstone Friday after about a 30-minute search at the Crater ofDiamonds State Park, a park official announced. Dennis Tyrrell, ofMurfreesboro, searches for diamonds about three or four days a weekat the state park and has found several others before, AssistantSuperintendent Bill Henderson said. The white diamond Tyrrell foundFriday was his largest find so far. Stickers appraise mundane objects in downtown Wis.
APPLETON, Wis. (AP), No one seems to know where the mysteriousstickers came from, colorful dots that appeared in this easternWisconsin town, apparently placing a value on the most mundane ofpublic objects. An orange dot on a decorative light post is labeled"Art Object, $10,000." Nearby another sticker declares a green firehydrant an art object worth $10.
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