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$60 to watch a movie at home? (WOTV Battle Creek)
Movie studio Universal Pictures and its new parent, cable TV giant Comcast Corp., will try giving film buffs a chance to watch a movie that's still in theaters from the comfort of their living rooms.

Fall foliage being pushed back?
Fall foliage being pushed back? (WDTN-TV Dayton)
Clocks may not be the only thing falling back: That signature autumn change in leaf colors may be drifting further down the calendar.

Saturday's meteors may be no-see-ums (KRQE Albuquerque)
As many as 750 meteors an hour are expected Saturday, as Earth travels through streams of dust and ice from Comet Giacobini-Zinner. The comet passes through the inner solar system every seven years.

NM fraternity finds severed goat head on porch (The Kansas City Star)
University of New Mexico police are trying to determine who left a severed goat head on the porch of a fraternity house.KOB-TV reports that members of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity found the head last week and reported it to authorities.Phi Gamma Delta President Javier Manriquez says that after he saw the head, he took a photo of it and threw it ... (more)

Firefighters won't be disciplined for porn shoots (KOMO News)
Firefighters who allowed porn producers to use Los Angeles fire trucks in sex films won't face discipline.

Adorable video: Panda cubs make debut
Adorable video: Panda cubs make debut (WLUK-TV Green Bay)
Twelve giant panda cubs born in 2011 have shown up at the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding and Research Center of Southwest China's Sichuan Province during the National Day holidays.

News of the Weird: Save Your Liposuction Juices (Connecticut's WB 20)
Risky Business Models: Orlando-area cosmetic surgeon Jeffrey Hartog inaugurated Liquid Gold, a storehouse for patients' frozen liposuctioned fat, charging $900 to safekeep a coffee-cup-sized portion and $200 per year storage .

DOCUMENT: "Chick," 71, And Man, 54, Busted In Naked Car Romp (The Smoking Gun)
OCTOBER 5--A naked 71-year-old woman and her equally clothes-free male companion, 54, were arrested last month for indecent exposure after a Michigan cop found them trysting in the back seat of a Buick Regal that was rocking gently and had its windows steamed over, according to a police report .

Mother Of Baby Twins Found Dead In Tub Charged
Mother Of Baby Twins Found Dead In Tub Charged (CBS Local)
The mother of twin babies who drowned in a bathtub at an East Troy apartment has been charged with felony child neglect.

1-Armed Man Charged With Murder In Little Falls Shooting (CBS Local)
A 35-year-old Hutchinson man is accused of shooting and killing another man in Little Falls on Tuesday after the two got into an argument involving drugs and money, according to charges filed Wednesday in Morrison County Court.

Woman wins $25M with 'wrong' ticket (WISH-TV Indianapolis)
Georgia Lottery officials say a store clerk's mistake led to a woman who has been searching for a job to win $25 million.

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