There are newspaper typos, and then there are out-and-out, red-faced, “D’oh!” misspellings.

The Valley News in New Hampshire misspelled its own name on its front page – with its masthead Monday appearing as “Valley Newss.”

In a subsequent editor’s note, the paper said, “Given that we routinely call on other institutions to hold themselves accountable for their mistakes, let us say for the record: We sure feel silly.”

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This he couldn’t do in an eight-hour shift?

A Florida cop was suspended after filing overtime for sitting around the office viewing porn on a city-owned computer.

St. Petersburg Detective William Burris was suspended for 45 days.

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This might be called death by idiocy.

A Mississippi man was fatally burned after breaking into a bar, trying to cook food in the kitchen and setting the building on fire. Robert Davis sustained severe burns and died two days later.

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It’s a true Mown-A-Lisa.

An art-obsessed gardener in England had the image of the Mona Lisa mown into her lawn.

It took two days to replicate the Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece in the grass, using a small lawnmower and hand clippers.

Of course, the off-the-beaten-path artwork can be appreciated only from an aircraft, and in a few weeks it’ll be gone.

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Speaking of art, here’s a mammoth painting being put to good use.

Croatian artist Djuro Siroglavic set a Guinness record by painting a canvas piece, “The Wave,” 4 miles long and 7 feet wide, and weighing 6 tons.

Now he’s decided to chop it into pieces and sell them off to benefit children’s charities.

“It was hard to find a gallery that could display it,” he said. “And I didn’t want it to sit around somewhere gathering dust.”

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