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SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Call it udder shock. A South Carolina woman who heard a giant splash in her backyard discovered a 650-pound cow had fallen into her swimming pool.

WSPA-TV reports that the cow fell into Kathy Wydareny's covered pool on Monday night. The Anderson resident says the cow belonged to her neighbor.

Wydareny was startled by a "giant whoosh" and took a flashlight out to investigate. She called 911 after spotting the cow.

It took five men from the county rescue team to free the cow using a sling.

Wydareny believes the cow got loose and just kept walking, thinking the pool cover was solid ground.

BRIDGETON, N.J. — No one is complaining about a $100,000 mistake made by a southern New Jersey store clerk.Indian Fields Market owner Domenic Galle says a man walked into the Bridgeton store and asked for a Deuces Wild scratch-off lottery ticket Monday night.Galle says the clerk gave him an Aces High ticket instead.The clerk chased after the man when she released she had made a mistake. But he was gone.Galle says the man walked in an hour later with a $100,000 winner.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — A somber candlelight vigil is concluding Texas A&M University's marking of the 10th anniversary of a bonfire collapse that killed 12 people.More than 3,000 people attended a vigil that began today at 2:42 a.m., the exact time of the Nov. 18, 1999 accident.The vigil took place on the collapse site, where a circular memorial now stands. It followed a ceremony Tuesday evening at the university's basketball arena.Students and others were building the 59-foot tower of logs in what had been an annual football season tradition on campus when it collapsed.

NEW ULM, Minn. — A Minnesota judge has closed the case of a teenager forced by the court to undergo chemotherapy against his family's wishes.Brown County Judge John Rodenberg says in his order that there's no further need for court involvement after tests have shown 13-year-old Daniel Hauser of Sleepy Eye is now cancer-free.In April, county officials filed a child protection order after a doctor reported Daniel's family was refusing to treat his Hodgkin's lymphoma with chemotherapy. Rodenberg ordered the treatment, prompting Daniel's mother to flee with the boy to California for a week before returning to Minnesota.Daniel completed his final radiation treatment earlier this month.

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