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Colo. says state champion goat failed drug test
Colo. says state champion goat failed drug test (KBCI CBS 2)
Colorado officials have disqualified the grand champion goat from this year's State Fair because they say it tested positive for an unapproved drug.

Times Square Full Monty OK'd by Court (NBC Dallas)
Wall Street protester Katherine Onorato got herself painted at the protests, She could've had the job done anywhere under a new court agreement.

Courthouse Takeover Case Goes to Trial (MyFoxAtlanta)
A Georgia militia supporter goes on trial Tuesday in Knoxville charged in a bizarre plan to take over a rural Tennessee courthouse and help serve citizens' arrest warrants on judges and law officers.

Ireland's judges lose their wigs in austerity move
Ireland's judges lose their wigs in austerity move (KOMO News)
M'lord, I can see your bald patch. Hundreds of Ireland's judges abandoned their wigs for the first time in centuries Friday after the Irish Courts Service ended the rule requiring them to wear the British-style headgear.

Detroit Holds Ex-Cons-Only Jobs Fair (NBC Dallas)
The city of Detroit has high unemployment, and no one has a tougher time finding work than an ex-con. So Detroit recently held a job fair strictly for ex-cons. More than 200 jobs were available, and no one who had not been convicted of a felony was eligible to attend.

Police: Calif. men sold guns from hot dog stand (WBIR-TV Knoxville)
Authorities say a Northern California hot dog vendor offered undercover officers more than just mustard, ketchup and relish on the side Fifty-eight-year-old Jose Gilberto Ortiz was arraigned in U.S. District Court in San Jose on Thursday on charges of selling firearms to the officers from his hot dog stand.

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