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Don't call them hot dogs and don't ask for ketchup. Those are the cardinal rules at Olneyville New York System, arguably the best-known Rhode Island spot for one of the state's signature dishes: hot wieners.

When Samira Mbotizafy Frasch arrived in Tallahassee four years ago from France, she told her new friends about a glamorous past where she modeled for a top agency in Paris and attended the prestigious University of Paris-Sud, known for its math studies.

's president was overthrown, the cradle of the uprising is a surreal place as children play alongside diehard protesters still dressed in combat gear.

After becoming international sensations two weeks ago when the judges ran out of words, Kush and Sophia Hoffman met again Saturday for a chance to go to the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

The investigation into the death of a woman at her house in an upscale enclave of Tallahassee has dragged on for two weeks with no answers.

Editor's Note: Patch has 31 sites in Virginia and D.C., and more than 900 across the country.

Shortly after having a steak purchased at a local Walmart, 24-year-old Ronnie Morales felt ill, according to multiple reports.

Neighbors say Pia Farrenkopf didn't talk to anyone and traveled extensively. Combine that with the fact, her bills were being paid by an auto-draft from her bank, and no one noticed she was dead.

The high court ruled that cuts in education funding since 2010 led to an unconstitutionally imbalanced playing field between rich and poor schools.

Maybe the you-know-what-nut put food mashups on the map, but we think the turducken deserves all the credit.

The mother of 16-year-old Tabitha Brewer and the daughter of 71-year-old Shirley McKeown never got to bury their loved ones because their bodies were never found.

There appears to be another arcane world record in Grand Rapids, this time for the most people wearing sunglasses at night.

The sizzle. The smell. The promise of bacon is enough to get most of us out of bed.

President Obama botched a very popular song lyric - and one that's pretty easy to remember if you know how to spell - last night at the White House's "Women of Soul" performance, the AP reports.

Fires started by carelessly discarded cigarettes are nothing new to the London Fire Brigade - but the culprits are usually people, not birds.

Fires started by carelessly discarded cigarettes are nothing new to the London Fire Brigade - but the culprits are usually people, not birds.

A Florida Keys man was arrested after deputies say he robbed his girlfriend and then ate some of the money that he stole, according to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office.

CNN explains 32-year-old Michael Robertson, of Andover, Mass., was arrested four years ago and accused of using his cell to take pictures up women's skirts.

A man eating a burrito on a Seattle street was punched in the head when he declined to give a stranger a bite of his food.

There are no shortage of theories about Stonehenge , but few are so melodious as this: A recent study carried out by the Royal College of Art in London suggests that the monument holds a "sonic secret."