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RICK SCOTT-BRACKET
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Governor Rick Scott is making his picks for the NCAA tournament. No surprise he's counting on the Florida Gators to win it all. Scott has Florida beating Michigan 60-54 in the final game. His Final Four includes the Gators, Wolverines, Cincinnati Bearcats and Wisconsin Badgers. Cincinnati is the biggest surprise to reach the semifinals. The governor also successfully picked Florida State to defeat Auburn in the BCS football championship game.
CHIHUAHUA-TOTING BANK ROBBER
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Armed with -- a Chihuahua. Authorities in Tucson, Arizona, are searching for a bank robber who brought along his Chihuahua. Police say a man approached a Chase Bank branch in a grocery store. According to authorities, the man had a white Chihuahua puppy in a shopping basket which he placed on the counter. Police say the man demanded money from the two bank tellers. He then took off with the cash and the pup. Police add the Chihuahua-toting crook didn't show a weapon.
GETTING RID OF GEESE
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — It will be booms and beams versus the geese. Officials in Columbus, Ohio, are tired of the pesky birds near the Ohio State campus. It's hoped that booms from fireworks will scare away the birds. Workers will also beam lasers near where the geese land. Ohio State is warning students so they won't be startled by the noise. The Columbus Dispatch reports the loud fireworks will be set off every day for the rest of the year.
WIKIPEDIAN-IN-RESIDENCE
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — How's this for a student job? University of California, Berkeley, geography major Kevin Gorman is the school's first Wikipedian-in-residence. The 24-year-old student will advise fellow students and faculty on editing articles for Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia. UC Berkeley is the first American university to create such a position. Gorman says he hopes to help expend Wikipedia's user-generated content.
POWERBALL WINNER
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Beverly Swartzmiller has a good reason to celebrate. The West Virginia woman brought her husband Herb along, as she claimed her $2 million Powerball prize yesterday. Swartzmiller used the Powerplay option and matched 5 numbers from last Saturday's drawing. Swartzmiller says she will use the money to help her children, grandchildren and her church.
RARE KITTEN
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — It's a lot of excitement over an ocelot. Scientists say a remote camera captured an image of an ocelot kitten in a South Texas wildlife refuge. Federal wildlife biologist Hilary Swarts says she and her colleagues were jumping up and down and screaming. There are fewer than 50 ocelots in the wild in the U.S. Swarts tells the San Antonio Express-News it's believed the kitten is female, which will add to the breeding stock.
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