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Wendy's Case a 'CSI-Type of Investigation'

LAS VEGAS – In the latest wrinkle in an increasingly strange case, the woman who claimed she found a fingertip in her bowl of Wendy’s (search) chili last month has been arrested for grand larceny and attempted grand larceny. “Clearly this has been a very unusual case from the very …

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Hershey Posts Record First-Quarter Profits

HARRISBURG, Pa. – The newly renamed Hershey Co. (HSY), the nation’s largest candy maker, on Thursday said first-quarter profits rose 10.3 percent on the strength of several new products and last year’s purchase of a Mexican candy maker and a Hawaiian macadamia nut (search) processor. The results also prompted Hershey …

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Man Saved by Lip Balm

Call it the case of the lucky ChapStick. Steven Jacobs, a physician’s assistant in Brooklyn, N.Y., dropped his tube of lip balm at work last Wednesday — and bent over to pick it up just as a bullet flew through his office window, reports the New York Post. Police and …

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