Halloween night proved dangerous for some young trick-or-treaters in Prince William County, VA. In one instance, an 11-year-old was robbed by 2 boys with a BB gun.

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The entire second grade class of a Maryland Elementary School was outside November 3 studying trees as part of a science when a child disturbed a tree stump with a yellow jacket nest inside. Forty-seven children – about half the second grade – were stung by yellow jackets.

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Ouch! 🙁

Brazilian children are being menaced while they sleep by rabid vampire bats that have killed 23 people and bitten more than 1300 since September. The winged creatures enter people’s homes at night and suck blood from the youngsters’ face or fingers.

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Home Depot was sued by a shopper who claims he got stuck to a restroom toilet seat because a prankster had smeared it with glue, and he claims employees ignored his cries for help for about 15 minutes because they thought he was kidding.

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A pit bull attacked 3 people after several men fought over a burrito.

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested Monday in Virginia Beach and charged with stabbing a 17-year-old boy over Halloween candy.

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A woman bought a winning lottery ticket worth $1 million with a stolen credit card and could wind up with nothing if convicted, police said.

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The mushroom Ty Whitmore found on a relative’s farm near the northwest Missouri community of Maysville this week tipped the scales at 56 pounds – and that was only part of it.

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A deer romped through two upscale shops in D.C.’s Georgetown neighborhood 10/26 before animal control officers tranquilized it.

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Lasting Impression Preservationists discourage tombstone rubbings, but they can be done if you’re careful. If you’re interested in tombstone art, here’s the right way to do gravestone rubbings.

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The sport of Punkin Chunkin is all about how far a pumpkin can fly from the barrel of an air cannon. But for physics students, the question is how fast. A Virginia professor and his students followed their scholarly curiosity to a Culpeper County field, and the pumpkins–and their pulp–really flew.

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When the stone was pulled off the tomb, Douglas Owsley peered down into the burial vault. He could see rotted coffins that had been dragged off a shelf and bones strewn around the floor.

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Sidekick has been frolicking freely within a remote section of the Spotsylvania Court House Battlefield.

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*updated:*
Sidekick was captured on Thursday, 12/23/2005, and returned to her owner in time for Christmas.
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A full-size, 500 pound fiberglass cow was swiped from a Chick-fil-A billboard overlooking an interstate in Chesapeake, Virginia.

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Half a dozen Mexico City prostitutes have been arrested for using eye drops containing a sleep-inducing drug to knock out and rob their clients, leaving at least five men dead.

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Wasn’t there a CSI episode about this?