Her mother was a human pack rat

Everybody has seen stories about people who are human pack rats, unable to throw anything away and filling their houses with mountains of things that to them are treasures and to others are garbage and junk. But what do you do if the person living in that house is your own mother?

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Snorkeler, 5, tells how he nearly ‘drown-ded’

Nicholas Rilling is a bright-eyed, active 5-year-old, normal in every way. What’s remarkable — miraculous, says his mother — is that he’s that way today after a three-day coma that resulted from his being underwater without oxygen for some 8 minutes.

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Tidbits: Friends say A-Rod’s the real victim

While soon-to-be-divorced Alex Rodriguez is still in the hot seat thanks to his mysterious Madonna meetings and the various adultery allegations that swirl around him, A-Rod’s friends say he’s the injured party.

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"A Northern Kentucky family is lucky to be alive after walking away from a plane crash." Their plane had taken off from "a Cincinnati airport Saturday," October 10, 2009, and crashed in Virginia, according to this WKYT article.

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VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. - A woman was run over by a golf cart on the beach Monday afternoon in Volusia County. Beach Patrol officials said the woman was med-evacuated as a precaution. The woman, who has not been identified, did not have life threatening injuries from the impact.

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The U.S. Green Party, which captured far less than 1 percent of the vote in the last presidential election, chose former Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney as its 2008 presidential candidate on Saturday.

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