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Police: Trucker Saved From Choking By Crash (KVIA)
A Pennsylvania trucker may have saved his own life with an unintentional and very elaborate Heimlich maneuver.

Rare tortoise missing from Colorado Springs zoo
Rare tortoise missing from Colorado Springs zoo (Cw56)
A rare tortoise has disappeared from the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs and authorities think he may have been stolen.

House said to look like Hitler's face (WTNH)
An unassuming semi-detached house in Wales has become an unlikely Web star after Internet users decided that it looks a lot like Adolf Hitler's face.

Christie's to sell giant pearl (KTXL-TV Sacramento)
Auction house Christie's will put one of the world's largest pearls on the block at its Dubai spring jewelry sale on April 20 in a nostalgic reminder of the Emirate's pearl diving past.

Auction set for William and Kate sweet dispensers (KTXL-TV Sacramento)
If you've ever wanted to eat sweets disgorged from the chests of royalty, your time has come.

Still missing, Bronx Zoo cobra Tweets gibes at pursuers (examiner)
Last Friday afternoon was the last time a 20-inch Egyptian cobra was seen in its exhibit at New York's Bronx Zoo. It's been missing since then, but perhaps its keepers should have been looking at Twitter posts instead of in the reptile house.

Bronx Zoo's missing cobra 'speaks out' on Twitter
Bronx Zoo's missing cobra 'speaks out' on Twitter (KBCI CBS 2)
The Bronx Zoo may still be looking for its missing cobra, but a tongue-in-cheek Twitter user is charting its supposed progress.

WWDC 2011 tickets selling on eBay for scalpers' prices; one sells for $3,550 (examiner)
WWDC 2011 sold out in hours. That said, you might expect to see some eBay scalping, and you'd be right.

Leap lands 375-pound shark in fishing boat (Abc13)
It's the catch of a lifetime, but it's not clear whether a Texas fisherman landed an 8-foot shark or it landed him.

Letter in a bottle answered after 24 years
Letter in a bottle answered after 24 years (KBCI CBS 2)
Nearly a quarter-century after a German boy tossed a message in a bottle off a ship in the Baltic Sea, he's received an answer.

Border Patrol seizes valuable parrots (WLUK-TV Green Bay)
U.S. Border Patrol agents have made an unusual bust while patrolling the U.S. shore along the lower Rio Grande near Rio Grande City.

Children chase suspect who took mom's purse (KXTV)
A 12-year-old and his 10-year-old sister chased after a woman who snatched their mother's purse near the Daytona Beach pier.

April Fools' Days Pranks for techies (examiner)
If you really want to get your hands on Gingerbread (Android 2.3) for the Motorola Droid 2 / Droid X, and if you don't mind rooting your device and voiding your warranty, have we got a deal for you.

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