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NY college crew team finds giant floating ‘head’

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y.

Anyone lose a giant head made of Styrofoam and fiberglass?

That’s what officials at an upstate New York college are asking after the men’s crew team found the unusual object floating in the Hudson River.

Officials at Marist College in Poughkeepsie say the team was practicing last week when the coach spotted a large object floating near the river’s west bank. He hooked a rope to it and towed it to the team’s dock on the east bank.

The object turned out to be a 7-foot-tall replica of a man’s head made with Styrofoam and fiberglass. The head has the appearance of a Greek- or Roman-style statue.

College officials believe it’s a theater prop, but so far no one has claimed the giant head.

Woman, 80, swallows diamond at Fla. charity event

TAMPA, Fla.

The idea behind the Tampa Women’s Club charity event was simple. For $20, you could buy a flute of champagne and a chance to win a 1-carat, $5,000 diamond.

Organizers of the Saturday event placed $10 cubic zirconia stones in the bottom of 399 of the 400 champagne glasses. The prized diamond, donated by Continental Wholesale Diamonds, was placed in the last.

The problem? Eighty-year-old Miriam Tucker accidentally swallowed it.

Tucker told local news media that she didn’t want to put her finger in the champagne, so she drank a bit. While laughing with women at the table, she realized she swallowed it.

Embarrassed, she had to tell jewelers who were searching frantically for the winner.

Already scheduled for a colonoscopy Monday she had a doctor recover the jewel.

Associated Press