snopes.com: Update #481
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New Articles - Motorist mistakes a Dustbuster vacuum cleaner for a Fuzzbuster radar detection device.
- Photographs purportedly show a cache of weapons confiscated from a site on the Arizona border.
- Did an overheated laptop used in a bed result in a fatal house fire?
- Is the father of Chelsea Clinton's husband a former congressman who pled guilty to fraud charges?
- Photographs purportedly show a black white-tailed deer fawn.
- A pranking radio DJ prompts a startling admission from his joke's intended victim.
- Don't forget to visit our Daily Snopes page for a collection of odd news stories from around the world!
Worth a Second Look - Did a customer once close his million-dollar bank account after his bank refused to validate his parking ticket?
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