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Ottawa, Ontario (WFN) -- Genital herpes may truly be the gift that keeps on giving. A new study being presented at a Sexually Transmitted Disease conference in Ottawa suggests that 25 percent of Americans test positive for the virus that causes the cold sores.

NEW YORK -- Italian food is the way to many Americans' stomachs. According to a survey by Ecco Domani wine, Italian food is the No. 1 ethnic food in America, selected by 42 percent of folks. Meanwhile, 22 percent love Mexican the most, 17 percent like Chinese and only 8 percent say French food is the "piece de la resistance."

VERNON HILLS, Ill. -- A late civil rights activist has fulfilled her wish to be buried in a pet cemetery. Jean Birkenstein Washington now resides beside Smokey the cat and Tippy the dog at the Aarrowood animal cemetery in Vernon Hills, Illinois. Her children, which include a columnist at the "Boston Herald" who made the story public news, acted on her request because they knew they couldn't fufill her true wish: To be buried at the zoo.

JENSEN BEACH, Fla. -- Fighting crime can be a great stress-buster. That's what a 47-year-old landscaper in Florida discovered after tackling a robber who'd just ripped off a bank in Jensen Beach. Hero Andrew Green tells the "Palm Beach Post," "It felt great. All my frustrations just went out of my body."

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