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Oprah coupon offer has KFC customers salivating

Never underestimate the power of Oprah or a free meal. That seems to be the lesson KFC is learning after talk-show titan Oprah Winfrey took to the airwaves Tuesday with an offer of a free grilled chicken two-piece meal. full story

Northeast

WPXI: Cops settle with Buffett fan for $132K
WPTZ: Center loses funds over abortion stance
WRGB: Man finds snake head in dinner
WBAL: Found lottery ticket worth $250K
WFSB: Journal in college slaying: 'Kill Johanna'

South

WWBT: Sorority closed amid hazing allegations
WSMV: Principal suspended after canoe rescue
WSFA: Man swept away in raging flood
WPLG: Stadium renamed for Buffett's beer
WSOC: Child rescued from mud pit

Midwest

KSDK: Wizard of Oz 'munchkin' dies
WRTV: Homeless man can't get driver's license
KWTV: Grads to get diploma, no handshake
KMBC: Truck carrying horses crashes; 1 dead
KOCO: Good deed repaid with gunshots

West

KCRA: Cats go hungry after owner dies on sofa
KFOX: Army may boot soldier in dog abuse case
KMGH: Mountain lion falls into window well
KPTV: County job pays $70K to tweet
KING: Man, 76, reels in 200 lb. fish

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Avid 'railfans'
Rain or shine, 80-year-old Cookie Williams plops himself on the wooden viewing platform perched over double train tracks.

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