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BARNESVILLE, Ohio (NBC) -- An 82-year old Ohio woman is lucky to be alive after spending 16 hours stuck in an icy pond.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The laughs are back. Betty White plays football and a house made of Bud Light cans falls slowly apart.
NEW ORLEANS (NBC) -- A die-hard saints fan swallows a prized possession. Her "fleur-de-lis" earring was stuck in Floellen Rickard's throat.
ROCHESTER, NY (NBC) -- A mentally ill New York man who spent nearly six years behind bars for a 1976 rape he insisted he didn't commit was exonerated Thursday after DNA testing showed he was innocent.
TENNESSEE (WBIR-TV) -- A company has found a way to use millions of feet of unused seatbelt material to make fashionable bags.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (NBC) -- The NFL is changing the rules on where you can watch the Super Bowl this year.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- CBS says it has sold out of ads for the Super Bowl at average prices that are better than last year, with some 30-second spots topping $3 million apiece.
DETROIT (AP) -- Two artists who have encased one of Detroit's thousands of abandoned homes in ice are hoping their effort inspires and helps draw attention to the housing crisis that has battered the nation.
MANAHAWKIN, N.J. (NBC) -- A longtime girl's volleyball coach in South Jersey who's been vilified on the Internet for allegedly purposely pegging one of his players in the head after a missed play says he's "troubled" by the firestorm.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- Win or lose, it's great to be nominated. That's what Sandra Bullock is saying about the Oscars, adding that "no one cares about the end result or the statue."
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) -- The groundhog has spoken. And it's six more weeks of winter.
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- Giant squid weighing up to 60 pounds have invaded the California waters off Newport Beach and are being caught by sport fishermen by the hundreds.
CAMPBELL, Calif. (NBC) -- It was their way. A real guy's way of saying goodbye to their friend.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The 1985 charity anthem "We are the World" has new life and a new sound.
FARMINGTON, Conn. (NBC) -- A Connecticut man says he documented Toyota's faulty accelerator pedal four years ago with his home video camera and was turned away when he showed the evidence to his local dealer.
NEW ORLEANS, La. (NBC) -- New Orleans is a city that's never needed a reason to party, but for four-and-a-half years they've been searching for a reason to feel good.
GREENSBORO, NC (NBC) -- A museum that highlights one of the most profound events in the history of the civil rights movement opened Monday, the first day of Black History Month.
LOWELL, Mass. (AP) -- A Lowell house struck by a lumber truck whose driver said he passed out after choking on chili will be demolished.
DENVER, Colo. (NBC) -- After a bizarre mix-up at a Denver mortuary, two families are trying to move forward after losing their loved ones.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Beyonce has four more Grammy trophies she needs to make room for.
(NBC) -- You may think only your Facebook friends can see your postings, pictures and status updates. But recent changes in Facebook policy have left the lives of many people an open book.
(NBC) -- Beyonce comes into the Grammys as the lady to beat with ten nominations overall.
(NBC) -- Kristen Bell's looking for love and gets more than she can handle in the romantic comedy "When in Rome".
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- Oscar-nominated actress Anne Hathaway has received a good-natured ribbing from Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals student drama troupe.
(NBC) -- Call him the luckiest dog alive. First he was rescued after traveling more than 75-miles of an ice floe in the Baltic Sea, now he has a new home.
NEW YORK (AP) -- "Catcher in the Rye" author J.D. Salinger has died at age 91 in New Hampshire.
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Penn. (NBC) -- An animal rights group wants organizers of Jefferson County, Pennsylvania's annual Groundhog Day festival to replace Punxsutawney Phil with a robotic stand-in.
DALLAS (NBC) -- For Dawson Depperschmidt, getting a cavity filled is just another part of growing up.
"It wasn't that bad," she said.
ISTANBUL (NBC) -- A dump truck driver in Turkey caused quite a mess earlier this week when he forgot to check his bed.
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