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A passerby takes a photograph of an oversized Chicago Blackhawks hockey helmet sitting on one of the lion sculptures outside the entrance to the Art Institute of Chicago in celebration of the team's upcoming appearance in the Stanley Cup finals Wednesday, June 12, 2013, in Chicago. The Blackhawks host the Boston Bruins in Game 1 on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Scott Eisen)

Lions among Blackhawks fans in Stanley Cup finals

The Chicago Blackhawks can boast of some mighty beasts among their supporters: two massive bronze lions that guard the Art Institute of Chicago. The lions started sporting Blackhawks helmets on Wednesday, the day of the first Stanley Cup finals game between the Chicago team and the Boston Bruins. The museum ...

  • Updated: 11:44 a.m. Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Raw: Australian Begins Cuba to Florida Swim

Raw: Australian Begins Cuba to Florida Swim

Australian endurance athlete Chloe McCardel is stroking steadily through the balmy waters off Cuba in an attempt to become the first person to swim from Havana to Florida without a protective shark cage. (June 12)

  • 11:10 a.m. Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Danish supermarket got drugs instead of bananas

Drug traffickers back in Colombia must be going bananas over how their shipment ended up at Danish supermarkets and not on the streets. Police say employees at the supermarket chain Coop got a big surprise when they opened banana boxes from the South American country and found about 100 kilograms ...

  • Updated: 7:24 a.m. Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Group wants to knit cover for Pa. Warhol bridge

Andy Warhol's art doesn't often conjure warm and fuzzy images — but a proposed tribute to him just might. An arts group wants to cover a downtown Pittsburgh bridge named for Warhol with knitted blankets. Allegheny County Council must sign off on the plan. But if it goes forward, the ...

  • Updated: 6:40 a.m. Wednesday, June 12, 2013
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This undated booking mug shot provided by the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office, shows Lynn Marie Herzog of the Winfield, Mo. The 50-year-old eastern Missouri woman is facing charges of felony harassment for allegedly approaching neighborhood children while wearing a ski mask and holding a chainsaw. (AP Photo/Lincoln County Sheriff's Office)

Officials: Woman approaches kids with chain saw

A Missouri woman is accused of trying to scare children by approaching them with a chain saw while wearing a ski mask. The Lincoln County Sheriff's Department says Lynn Marie Herzog of Winfield, Mo., is charged with felony harassment in the Sunday incident. Patricia Manker called the police after she ...

  • Updated: 10:54 a.m. Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Police dog Ajax looks on as by his handler, Civil Guard Sergeant Juan Carlos Alabarces Munoz, 3rd left embraces a colleague after the dog won a medal in Mostoles, just outside of Madrid, Spain Tuesday June 11, 2013. The Spanish police dog has received an award by a British animal defense group in recognition of his bravery on detecting a bomb on the Spanish island of Mallorca allowing police to explode it. Ajax, a bushy-coated gold and black 12-year-old German Shepherd  was presented with the award Tuesday at a ceremony on the outskirts of the Spanish capital by representatives of the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals.(AP Photo/Paul White)

Spain police dog wins British award for bravery

Ajax has a nose for trouble. The retired Spanish police dog has received a prestigious award by a British animal charity group in recognition of his bravery and skill. The bushy-coated, black-and-gold German Shepherd detected a bomb on the Spanish island of Mallorca only hours after two officers were killed ...

  • Updated: 6:25 a.m. Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Lions rest inside an enclosure after a raid at a zoo-like house on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand Monday, June 10, 2013. Thai police and forestry officials searched and seized a number of imported and endangered animals including 14 lions from Africa and arrested the house's owner. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

Thai pet shop owner with 14 rare lions arrested

Thai police found 14 albino lions imported from Africa and hundreds of other protected animals in a warehouse near Bangkok and have arrested a pet shop owner. Birds, meerkats, tortoises, peafowls, capuchin monkeys and other species from overseas and Thailand were found at the warehouse, police Col. Ek Ekasart said. ...

  • Updated: 6:25 p.m. Monday, June 10, 2013
In this Feb. 6, 2013 file photo, hundreds of bystanders watch Helen Rumbali, a woman accused of witchcraft, being burned alive in the Western Highlands provincial capital of Mount Hagen in Papua New Guinea. There is no clear explanation for the apparent uptick in killings in parts of the South Pacific nation, and even government officials seem at a loss to say why this is happening. Some are arguing the recent violence is fueled not by the nation's widespread belief in black magic but instead by economic jealousy born of a mining boom that has widened the country's economic divide and pitted the haves against the have-nots. (AP Photo/Post Courier, File) PAPUA NEW GUINEA OUT

Witch hunts in Papua New Guinea linked to jealousy

On a tropical island where most people live in huts, assailants armed with guns, machetes and axes stormed the wooden house by night. They set the building on fire and took away four female relatives to be tortured. Their alleged crime: witchcraft. Helen Rumbali was beheaded. Her older sister and ...

  • Updated: 6:13 p.m. Monday, June 10, 2013

Texas couple completes bucket list with Maine trip

A Texas couple has fulfilled a lifelong dream by visiting Maine to watch the state Legislature at work. Seriously. The Portland Press Herald (http://bit.ly/18mLCbP ) reports that 86-year-old Marcine Webb and his wife, 81-year-old Nita Lou Webb, were in Augusta last week to complete their quest to visit every state ...

  • Updated: 5:32 a.m. Monday, June 10, 2013
Kabang, a two-year-old injured mixed breed, is held outside the quarters of an elephant named Mali during a visit at Manila's Zoo, Philippines on Sunday June 9, 2013. Kabang lost half her face saving the lives of two girls and returned home after more than 7 months treatment at the University of California, Davis, California with $27,000 in donations raised in the Philippines and abroad. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Philippine town honors dog injured saving 2 girls

Every dog has its day, but few canines get a motorcade on their return home. Kabang, who lost half her face after jumping in front of a motorcycle to save the lives of two girls, received a rousing welcome Monday in Zamboanga, a city in the southern Philippines. The mixed-breed ...

  • Updated: 12:05 a.m. Monday, June 10, 2013
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