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This is cute. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw7t4f-ZV3E&feature=player_embedded

Here it is, hot off the TV. Four more eliminated in American Idol 2007; we're now down to 16. Also, an update on that GREASE contest.

Ty Martin estimates he gets about 100 miles per gallon of diesel out of his old Dodge truck. And he’s not joking. “I’ve done some extensive road testing and had great luck,” the Lawrence resident said. Martin is one of a small but growing group of drivers who are skirting rising gas prices and taking what they see as a more environmentally friendly route by fueling their cars with used restaurant grease. “It’s something that’s really taken off in the last two years,” said Josiah Cuneo, production manager for Greasecar Vegetable Fuel Systems, a Massachusetts-based company that sells the kits...

Fire breaks out at Salt Lake crematoriumby Larry Warren LAST UPDATE: 10/25/2006 12:06:00 AM A dead man had one final earthly act before moving on. Fire officials said the six-hundred pound man was in being cremated when his body fluids were too much for the oven. The body fluids seeped out onto the floor and ignited causing a fire at the Garner Funeral Home in Salt Lake City. "Those fluids can be very flammable," said Scott Freitag of the Salt Lake City fire department. "Sort of like a grease fire." An employee used an extinguisher to put out the fire....

SAITAMA, Japan (Reuters) -- European champions Greece shocked odds-on favorites the United States 101-95 to reach the final of the world basketball championship on Friday.

HANCOCK COUNTY - Charges facing Edna May Sanders were upgraded to murder Friday, when her husband died from severe burns sustained during a domestic dispute last week at their Diamondhead home. The 45-year-old woman is accused of dumping a pot of blistering-hot grease on her sleeping husband, leaving him with third-degree burns on more than half of his body. Sherman Sanders spent a week clinging to life in the burn center at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. After his death late Friday afternoon, county investigators intensified the search for his wife. Investigators said Sanders, whose maiden name is...

The dog is OK. * * * * * Dallas Morning News photographer Tom Fox, who took the original picture, found the abandoned dog again Friday and alerted the animal specialists in Chalmette. http://www.dallasnews.com/s/dws/news/texassouthwest/txcn/stories/DN-katdog_10tex.ART.State.Edition2.dca1147.html

The road changes just past the Starr County sign. The shoulder disappears, the grass is left uncut and the black-eyed Susans and big pink Texas sage have to compete with the orange traffic cones set out by the border patrol. Just two counties up from the Texas tip, where the flood plains along the Rio Grande change to rolling hills and eroding cliffs, Starr County, largely Mexican-American, is one of the poorest counties in the nation. Fifty-nine percent of its children live below the poverty level, and in the strange new arithmetic of want, in which poverty means not starvation...

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OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Oklahoma police are looking for grease bandits who made off with 5,000 pounds (2268 kg) of used cooking oil and grease from three restaurants.