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• New federal judge from Lawrence is on a soaring career path May 23, 2013
  Finding a suitable low-note encore for losing a series at Houston is no easy task, but the Royals pulled it off Thursday night by becoming the first club to roll over for Angels right-hander Joe Blanton. […]
• Evan the 'legend': Braves' Gattis takes strange road to the majors May 23, 2013
  A s Evan Gattis was rounding the bases, soaking up the cheers from his first grand slam, he noticed the song blaring triumphantly from the speakers at Turner Field. […]
• Fugitive in LA attempted-murder case held in Colo. May 23, 2013
  A man wanted for 13 years on attempted murder charges in Los Angeles was captured in Colorado after someone called police to report he was urinating on a wall outside a KFC restaurant. […]
• Alaska man runs onto frozena May 23, 2013
  Anchorage police say a young man who didn't want to return to jail ran out onto the uncertain ice of an Alaska lake to escape officers armed with an arrest warrant. […]
• Council members abstain froma May 23, 2013
  Three members of a Michigan city council have abstained from voting on a measure that would have prevented them from abstaining on future votes. […]
• Surgeons remove tiger's basketball-sized hairball May 23, 2013
  It's not unusual for a cat to get a hairball, but a 400-pound tiger needed help from veterinary surgeons in Florida when he couldn't hack up a basketball-size hairball by himself. […]
• Coin tossing breaks tie ina May 23, 2013
  What do you do when two candidates running for mayor in the Philippines get exactly the same number of votes? You get them to toss a coin. […]
• Club lets you peek into ladies room for $1,200 May 22, 2013
  Operators at the Shimmy Club got the idea and then carried it out by putting in a two way mirror. […]