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A 66-year-old California woman has been accused of murder after her daughter said she deliberately drowned another daughter 42 years ago. Patricia Thomas has been accused of holding the head of her 4-year-old daughter, Cynthia Howell, under the water in the bathtub of their Auburn home in 1970...

For flood-weary residents and sandbag crews in the Midwest, Sunday was largely a day of rest. Or, was it just the calm before the storm? To be sure, there were some efforts up and down the Missouri River on Sunday to protect towns, homes and rail lines against the arrival of floodwaters. But...

An Alberta woodpecker and a Newfoundland woodpecker were arguing about which place had the toughest trees. The Alberta woodpecker said Alberta had a tree that no woodpecker could peck. The Newfoundland woodpecker accepted his challenge and promptly pecked a hole in the tree with no problem. The...

woodpeckers -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Hawaiian woodpecker and a Californian woodpecker, who had managed to fly across the ocean to Hawaii, were arguing about which place had the toughest trees. The Hawaiian woodpecker led him to a tree...