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href="/web/20081026082206/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/25/national/a053935D25.DTL">A one-woman crime wave in Ohio</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="item clearfix"> <h2><a href="/web/20081026082206/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/25/state/n093824D97.DTL">Cat Shot With Arrow Is Back Home, Doing Fine</a></h2> <div> <p> A cat who was shot with an arrow must have nine lives. Jessie, a black-and-brown tabby, was found on Oct. 17 on a street in Norco, Riverside County. </p> <ul class="subitems"> <li class="first"><a href="/web/20081026082206/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/25/state/n031940D91.DTL">SoCal animal hoarding suspect arrested</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20081026082206/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/25/national/a081135D33.DTL">Police dog shot by friendly fire to be honored</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="item clearfix"> <h2><a href="/web/20081026082206/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/24/national/a123213D71.DTL">Dog Bites Man? Not A Story. 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The office that sets measurement standards said Friday that its proposed two-thirds pint measure for draft beer could be on tap soon. </p> </div> </div> <div class="item clearfix"> <h2><a href="/web/20081026082206/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/24/national/a083607D15.DTL">Feds Won't Move New Jersey River Dolphins</a></h2> <div> <p> Wayward mammals won't be removed from two rivers near the New Jersey shore, according to a federal wildlife agency. </p> <ul class="subitems"> <li class="first"><a href="/web/20081026082206/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/24/national/a064928D66.DTL">The return of Hogzilla?</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="item clearfix"> <h2><a href="/web/20081026082206/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/24/national/a072833D67.DTL">No Rest For Dead At Foreclosed Funeral Home</a></h2> <div> <p> Even the dead can't escape foreclosure in suburban Detroit. Five bodies and the cremated remains of 22 people have been removed from the foreclosed House of Burns Memorial Chapel. </p> </div> </div> <div class="item clearfix"> <h2><a href="/web/20081026082206/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/24/national/a022556D60.DTL">Store Owner's Feeling Pretty Fuelish</a></h2> <div> <p> Diesel fuel was on heavy discount at a rural Wisconsin convenience store -- just 59 cents a gallon. That is, until the owner discovered he had left off $3 while changing the price. </p> </div> </div> <div class="item clearfix"> <h2><a href="/web/20081026082206/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/24/MNLR13N48K.DTL">Students To Be Punished For 'Hit A Jew Day'</a></h2> <div> <p> At least four students from a suburban St. Louis middle school face punishment for allegedly hitting Jewish classmates during what they called "Hit a Jew Day." </p> </div> </div> <div class="item clearfix"> <h2><a href="/web/20081026082206/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/23/national/a123456D50.DTL">No Takers For $10,000 Abstinence Prize</a></h2> <div> <p> A contest that would pay $10,000 to an engaged couple, as long as they abstain from premarital sex, hasn't gotten any takers. </p> </div> </div> <div class="item clearfix"> <h2><a href="/web/20081026082206/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/23/national/a173310D55.DTL">Woman With 8-Foot Dreadlocks Wants Record</a></h2> <div> <p> Asha Mandela has hair that could rival Rapunzel's. 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