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You're not from around here, are you?: While out of town for business, it always helps to ask the locals for directions. Especially if that business involves putting up street signs. ›02:54, 29.06
Twin births like Angelina's are complicated: Danish health officials fear more than 4,000 people may be infected with salmonella and are checking everything from refrigerators to credit card receipts to find the source. ›18:30, 2.07
School's pregnancy spike stirs day care debate: Just four factors can predict with 70 percent accuracy whether a woman will become pregnant through "test-tube" baby technology known as in vitro fertilization, researchers said. ›01:24, 2.07
Catfish chokes on soccer ball: A catfish has apparently choked to death after trying to chow down on a soccer ball in the locks of a Bavarian canal. ›20:36, 1.07
Video: Former Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86: July 4: Jesse Helms, the blunt-talking North Carolina Republican served thirty years in Congress before retiring in 2003. NBCs Martin Savidge reports.(Nightly News) ›23:13, 4.07
Feds may euthanize wild horses: Federal officials are considering euthanizing wild horses to deal with the growing population on the range and in holding facilities, authorities said Monday. ›01:25, 1.07
Student finds it pays to swear on exam: A British high school student received credit for writing nothing but a two-word obscenity on an exam paper because the phrase expressed meaning and was spelled correctly. ›20:46, 30.06
Sailor ends 4,800-mile wave-powered trip: Japanese adventurer Kenichi Horie took more than three months to sail from Hawaii to Japan in a boat powered by the energy of ocean waves. ›16:08
It's into the wild for rescued sea turtle: A 150-pound sea turtle raised by humans returned to freedom on Monday after nine years of captivity, swimming away after the vets who cared for her helped steer her toward the ocean. ›18:25, 30.06
Olympic sailors brace for 'the dog': China's latest Olympics nightmare is a vast algae bloom that covers one-third of the sea where the world's best sailors are supposed to be competing in just over a month. ›21:51, 2.07
Test Pattern: Is my iPod saying I'm old?: Even at the ripe old age of 29, I feel like I'm closer to 18 than 30. And judging from the tunes on my iPod, I may as well still be in my teens, because my taste in music (NIN!) is pretty firmly stuck in the past. ›13:55, 3.07
4,000 in Denmark may have salmonella: The Body Odd: Body critters and things that make you go "eeww!" ›12:12, 11.04
'Balloon-atic' in lawn chair aims to fly 300 miles: Like many Americans, Kent Couch plans to settle into a lawn chair during the Fourth of July weekend. Unlike everyone else, his feet will dangle high above the lawn. ›09:37, 3.07
Wannabe cop steals police cruiser: A teenage boy with an interest in law enforcement twice stole a police cruiser and took it out to do some patrolling. The boy's mother saw him bring the car home, but wasn't alarmed. ›01:58, 3.07
Pondering an Oniontown trip? 'Stay out': Two teenagers who drove to Oniontown after a series of YouTube videos portrayed the hamlet as a run-down, backwoods dump were pelted with rocks by an angry group. ›00:54
Ill. town hosts a whole lotta Liz: The northern Illinois community of Elizabeth tried Saturday to set a world record for the largest Gathering of Elizabeths. Women with Elizabeth in any part of their name were allowed in; one participant has Elizabeth as a last name. ›09:09, 29.06
Algae envelop Olympics' sailing site: Officials say they need at least two weeks to clear an algal bloom threatening Olympic sailing events in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao. ›14:21, 30.06
Beef recall expands to 5.3 million pounds: Nebraska Beef Ltd. is expanding a recall announced earlier this week to include all 5.3 million pounds of meat produced for ground beef between May 16 and June 26. ›20:22, 3.07
Message board: Discuss the strangeness:
Crazy cat mends ways under house arrest: A combative cat named Lewis who frightened the neighbors and got his owner into legal trouble two years ago has done so well under house arrest that the case has now been scratched. ›08:18
The Nooz: Woman solves own hit-and-run: A roundup of strange stories as reported by NBC News and NBC's network of local affiliates: A cyclist solves her own hit-and-run accident, teens set a world kazoo record, and more. ›19:53, 3.07
Video: New video recounts Colombian rescue: July 4: Colombia released the first videos of the rescue of three Americans and a dozen others held by rebel forces. NBCs Mark Potter reports.(Nightly News) ›23:25, 4.07
Some psych patients wait days in ERs: When staffers at a Brooklyn hospital spotted a middle-aged woman lying face-down on a waiting room floor last month, it hardly seemed like cause for alarm. ›21:45, 3.07
Video: Crews struggle to slow huge fires: July 4: Two massive wildfires along the California coastline are keeping weary firefighters busy this Independence Day. NBCs George Lewis reports.(Nightly News) ›23:27, 4.07
