Final season of `Lost' to begin Feb. 2

ABC says the final season of "Lost" will begin in February with a night devoted to the drama.

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Prospective groom drops ring from hot air balloon

A young Ohio pastor didn't lose his nerve about asking his girlfriend to marry him — even after he accidentally dropped the diamond engagement ring overboard during their hot-air balloon ride.

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Texas vets reunite with Japanese-American rescuers

Even though it was 65 years ago, Al Tortolano clearly recalls the one thought, the only thought, that ran through his mind as his military unit was surrounded by German soldiers during World War II.

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Officials find gator that escaped at show and tell

Officials believe they have found an alligator that escaped from a wildlife officer who brought the animal to his daughter's school for show and tell.

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CA man arrested after phone found at break-in site

A Central California burglary suspect is behind bars after investigators say he dropped his cell phone outside a home that had been broken into.

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Mistrial in case of Texas mayor's $26K deposit

A mistrial has been declared in the case of a Texas mayor who says he accidentally deposited a $26,000 city check intended for a vendor into a personal account.

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Australian cat strays 2,400 miles, returns home

A cat named Clyde was reunited with his owner on Wednesday after a mysterious three-year odyssey in which the long-haired Himalayan strayed 2,400 miles into the Australian Outback.

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Cops: Man loses stepson while trying to buy drugs

Philadelphia police said a man out buying drugs flagged down officers after he couldn't find the car he'd parked with his 6-year-old stepson inside. The man, 31, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and recklessly endangering another person.

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Del. trooper nabs man wearing colleague's watch

Delaware State Police said a thief has been caught red-handed — and that hand happened to be wearing a watch stolen from a trooper nearly two years ago. Police said a trooper noticed a Chevrolet Blazer parked close to his own car outside a Wilmington restaurant Sunday. The Blazer drove away, and the trooper found his car had been burglarized and his wife's wallet stolen.

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NY researchers give ladybugs a birds-and-bees talk

A year after they launched a nationwide search for dwindling native ladybugs, New York researchers are breeding colonies of them from insects found by citizen scientists in Oregon and Colorado.

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GPS helps find 18th-century violin left in NY taxi

A musician is reunited with his 18th-century violin after he mistakenly left in a New York City cab.

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Karzai's image down as Afghan election approaches

He was once the toast of the town, a charming, urbane Afghan tribal leader voicing Jeffersonian ideals in perfect English, gliding effortlessly through the halls of power in Washington and the baking tents of the Afghan desert.

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Family wants Sierra mystery solved, 42 years later

Somewhere after Amelia Earhart in the annals of aviators who have flown into oblivion is the Webb Family: Ruby and Carroll and their son William, a budding pilot with just 70 hours in the cockpit.

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Swedish tourists miss island due to GPS typo

Officials say a Swedish couple looking for the pristine waters of the popular island of Capri ended some 400 miles (660 kilometers) away in the northern industrial town of Carpi after misspelling the destination on their car's GPS.

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AP IMPACT: Many translators unfit in any language

Josh Habib lay in a dirt field, gasping for air. Two days of hiking with Marines through southern Afghanistan's 115-degree heat had exhausted him. This was not what he signed up for.

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Oregon man's wallet resurfaces after 63 years

Bill Fulton doesn't remember losing his wallet, but getting it back more than 60 years later helped him remember the past.

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Mexico vows to keep looking for 'lost' island

Mexico vowed to keep looking for a mysterious island that could extend its offshore oil claims after university researchers said they couldn't find it.

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Dog in Calif. came — somehow — from Saudi Arabia

A "sweetheart" of a dog now in a California shelter may be really, really far from home. His microchip says the knee-high, light tan Saluki came from Saudi Arabia.

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Parents fuming over airline's kid-on-plane mix-ups

The parents of two young girls who were each placed on wrong flights while flying alone over the weekend are demanding that Continental Airlines make sure such mix-ups don't happen again.

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Thieves leave stolen ATM after it falls off truck

Ripping an ATM from its concrete base isn't easy. Losing it seems even harder. Thieves at an Alabama bank managed to do both. Phenix City Police Chief Ray Smith said the thieves used a stolen backhoe, a pickup truck and a flatbed trailer to pull off the job at a Wachovia branch in the eastern Alabama city early Monday.

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Mom: I resent my family for undervaluing me

This Mother’s Day was another disappointment. I, of course, purchased gifts for both my mother and mother-in-law. By 2 p.m. on Mother’s Day, I still had not received a card or gift, and I knew yet again that my husband had done nothing.

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Medical report: Cancer patient loses fingerprints

When a cancer patient from Singapore traveled to the United States last year, he discovered an unusual side effect of his medication: missing fingerprints.

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'Lost' season-ender: Bombshells and more mysteries

Jack wanted an explosion and he got his explosion, on the explosive season-ender of "Lost."

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Miss. county strikes out digging for time capsule

County officials in Mississippi are digging for a time capsule ahead of their weekend bicentennial celebration.

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ABC's 'Lost' marks 100th episode this week

"Lost" marks its 100th episode Wednesday, an achievement its producers consider as surreal as the TV drama's mind-bending plots. Executive producer Damon Lindelof, one of the series' creators, recalled meeting with ABC executives four years ago to pitch the idea of plane crash survivors stranded on an island of mystery and danger.

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The two-hour season premiere (it's called "LA X") of the sixth, and final, season of Lost has been scheduled to air on Tuesday, Februrary 2nd at 9 p.m. ET according to Executive Producer Carlton Cuse via Twitter.

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Katy is a poster child for the benefits of direct deposit, as well as deposit receipt-keeping.

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An 81-year-old Australian man became lost on an early morning drive to the shops and ended up almost 600km (370 miles) away from his starting point. Eric Steward told police he failed to stop because he "liked to drive".

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A 3-year-old Franklin boy who was digging in the dirt in his yard found a woman's wedding rings she lost 33 years ago.

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The stars seemed aligned for supporters of gay marriage. They had Maine's governor, legislative leaders and major newspapers on their side, plus a huge edge in campaign funding. So losing a landmark referendum was a devastating blow, for activists in Maine and nationwide.

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When Nathan switched computers he lost all the music he bought off iTunes, but he got it back by e-mailing Apple's iTunes support at iTunesStoreSupport@apple.com. This is the message he received in reply:

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A school has been fined £16,500 after a 16-year-old pupil lost eight fingers when her hands got stuck in a bucket of plaster of Paris during an art lesson. She was making a cast of her hands in January 2007 when they became trapped, magistrates in Boston were told.

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FlashForward has a big Lost connection, since there are stars from Lost in the new show and ABC hopes it takes Lost's place as the big mystery show on the network. But the premiere episode also had another connection: a possible clue for Lost's new season.

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Michael Emerson wins Emmy for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Go, Ben!

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A Phoenix family is looking for a mentally-ill relative who disappeared Wednesday night.

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The army has been a qausi-political party since 1958, and would remain as such.

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A family camping expedition in Canada's Yukon went horribly wrong when their two year old tot wandered off and couldn't be found again. To everyone's relief the little guy was found safe and sound Friday.

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Benjaman Kyle has few clues to the life he once led. He doesn't know his birthday, where he grew up or the circumstances that led him to be naked and badly beaten and left by a Dumpster behind a Burger King in Richmond, Ga.

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Indian space scientists were scrambling Sunday to regain contact with their unmanned moon mission a day after they abruptly lost contact with the orbiter.

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In 2007, Jan Souman dropped three volunteers into the Sahara desert and watched as they walked for several miles, in an attempt to walk in a straight line.

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The pilots of a holiday jet which suffered a potentially catastrophic electrical fault refused to divert to a nearer landing spot because they feared they would be shot down by military craft.

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A team of scientists in Germany have discovered why people tend to walk in circles when lost in locations as diverse as the Sahara Desert and German forests.

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John Hawkes, who played Sol Star on "Deadwood" and co-stars in HBO's "Eastbound and Down," will have a recurring role on the ABC show's final season. He'll be playing a character named Lennon, The Hollywood Reporter says.

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A young Irish girl who lost her purse on a Ryanair flight was appalled when she had to give away a quarter of her pocket money for its return.

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A 10-foot-gator that was caught in a tug-of-war with some children earlier this week has been captured

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An interesting (and informative) article about the physics of time travel.

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A state prison inmate has sued, claiming Davidson County jailers lost his prosthetic leg. Jerry Ray Brock was held in the jail at Nashville, awaiting transfer to state prison. The Tennessean reported Brock has a criminal history of burglaries.

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Total of 247,000 Jobs were lost during the last months, a drastic improvement since 443,000 jobs record lost until June. But perhaps, the new book monograph masterpiece naming will be "From Nowhere to the Recoveries" version x? (Y! AP)

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The Man in Black, Nemesis, Esau - some interesting comments from the actor.

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Lost Puppy...Please Keep An Eye Out!

I know most of you are dog lovers and will help us. My neighbor has lost her Chihuahua and is desperate to find him. Yesterday, she was sitting on the couch watching TV. She called out for her puppy with no response, and the back door was open.

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