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Happy Birthday, Khagendra! You're Now the World's Shortest Man

(Oct. 13) -- Being a 22-inch-tall adult makes it hard to buy clothes, drive a car and do many other things, but it's not without advantages. Khagendra Thapa Magar of Nepal turns 18 on Thursday and is now eligible to be the Guinness World Records title holder as the world's shortest man. Magar is five full inches shorter...

Magnetic Mom Attracts Metal and the Media

(Sept. 2) -- If Brenda Allison's refrigerator door should ever get too covered in metal trinkets, she can always start adding them to her forehead. That's because Allison, 50, happens to be a human magnet. A recent report in The Sun states the bizarre British woman can hold coins, safety pins and magnets to her head and...

Lizardman Captured in Wax

(Aug. 31) -- With his body covered in green tattoos, Teflon implants in his head, a forked tongue and fangs, it's hard not to stare at Erik Sprague, better known as the Lizardman. Fortunately, you'll soon be able to gawk up close for as long as you want. He'll be standing perfectly still as a wax statue. Last week at the...

Artist Makes Killing Off Dead Ant Painting

(June 22) -- When employees of Ripley's Believe It or Not! want to win an in-house contest, they turn to AOLNews.com. Just ask Ed Meyer, Ripley's vice president of exhibits and archives. "We are currently having a contest among employees to find interesting artifacts for our collection," Meyer said. "One of our employees...

Ripley's Can't Find Buried Whale, Deploys Search Team

(June 18) -- Researchers for Ripley's Believe It or Not! are having a whale of a time trying to find the remains of a dead sperm whale they buried 21 years ago. The whale carcass washed up on Prince Edward Island, Canada, back in 1989, and the company purchased the whale back then in hopes of exhibiting it in the Ripley's...

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05/02/12 Conn. Senate passes mattress disposal program bill Source: Record-Journal - Meriden CT A bill that would establish a program for discarding mattresses in Connecticut is one step closer to becoming law.
04/18/12 âThe Tide Is Building Against A Minimum Wage... Source: Hartford Advocate - Hartford CT The fate of a bill to raise the state's minimum wage was in doubt Wednesday when it was unclear whether there was enough Democratic support in the Senate to pass it.
04/07/12 Week In News: Obama, Romney Eye General Election Source: WBUR - 90.9 - Boston MA Following a vote this week in the state Senate, it's all but certain that Connecticut will become the next state to abolish the death penalty.
04/07/12 Compromise sought on coastal protection bills Source: The Day - New London CT Legislators are working toward crafting a compromise bill from two existing proposals that take very different approaches in dealing with the effects of flooding and storm surge on coastal properties.
04/02/12 Speeding To The Finish Line, Most Pass, Two Fail Source: Hartford Advocate - Hartford CT By the time the Judiciary Committee had finished meeting behind closed doors Monday, it had only four hours to work its way through a 64-bill agenda by its 5 p.m. deadline.