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YORKTOWN, N.Y. (AP) – Here comes the bride. Wait, here she comes again!

Identical twin sisters Francine and Maria Munafo have added their weddings to the list of special events they’ve shared by marrying in a double ceremony in suburban New York.

The 28-year-olds became engaged to their longtime boyfriends on Christmas Day 2006 and married them on Saturday at a waterfront catering hall in Westchester County.

They both wore white strapless dresses. But Maria’s had a touch of magenta and Francine’s had some green.

After sharing their proms, Sweet 16 parties, graduations and now their weddings, the twins have decided to go their separate ways for their honeymoons: Francine and Jeffrey Parkinson are going to Disney World in Orlando, Fla. Maria and Albino Goncalves are visiting the Poconos.

Dive-bombing birds peck people

CHICAGO (AP) – Experts are telling Chicago residents to beware of the birds.

The fiercely territorial behavior of red-winged blackbirds is being blamed on several recent dive-bomb attacks. The birds peck at unsuspecting bicyclists and pedestrians and swipe their hair.

Just ask Holly Grosso. The businesswoman says she was pecked in the head. She calls the incident “so bizarre.”

Field Museum ornithologist Doug Stotz says the birds favor parks and vacant lots near ponds and Lake Michigan.

Relief may come in late July, after their nesting season ends.

Photographer: Surfers on attack

MALIBU, Calif. (AP) – A paparazzo trying to photograph Matthew McConaughey at the beach told police he was attacked by a mob of surfers who threw his camera in the ocean.

The 29-year-old photojournalist told sheriff’s deputies that a large group of surfers near Paradise Cove in Malibu approached him and other paparazzi about 2 p.m. Saturday and demanded the group stop taking pictures and filming.

“There was apparently a fight, and the photographer gave a statement that he received injuries,” Los Angeles County sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said Sunday. Detectives are investigating, he said.

McConaughey was not involved in the attack, authorities said.

A call to McConaughey’s publicist was not immediately returned.

The celebrity Web site TMZ.com posted a video Sunday showing about a dozen young men in swimsuits approaching what appears to be a group of paparazzi and yelling and swearing at them.

A scuffle breaks out after one of the photographers exchanges insults with the group and at first refuses their orders to leave.

“I’ll give you a thousand bucks if you leave right now,” one of the young men in swimsuits tells the photographers.

Another shoves a photographer filming the scene, and still another says, “We’ll draw a line in the beach, and we’ll fight for the beach. If you guys win, you can have the beach.”

When one member of the group shouts at a photographer, “Get a … real job,” the photographer replies, “This is a real job. What do you do?”

The man replies: “I just drink beer and party.”

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