Cambridge Man Steals 123 Parking Meters
BOSTON -- A Cambridge man was arrested and charged with stealing 123 parking meters from city streets.Thomas Gannon, 37, was arraigned in Cambridge District Court on Tuesday, WCVB-TV in Boston reported.
Japanese Pioneer 'Divorce-Loans'
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's first-ever divorce loan caters to those who fell head over heels in love only to find themselves up to their necks in debt.
Named "Re" for those re-starting their lives, the loan helps divorcees cover the cost of compensation and legal payments and offers a lower interest rate than credit cards loans, on which Japan's growing number of divorce-seekers have depended in the past.
China Bans Bra, Underwear, Sex Toy Ads
BEIJING (AP) - China has banned television and radio ads for push-up bras, figure-enhancing underwear and sex toys in the communist government's latest move to purge the nation's airwaves of what it calls social pollution.
Regulators have already targeted ads using crude or suggestive language, behavior, and images, tightening their grip on television and radio a few weeks ahead of a twice-a-decade Communist Party congress at which some new senior leaders will be appointed.
Here Is Why Writing A Hundred Thousand Dollar Check To Your Girlfiend Is A Bad, Bad Idea
In recently filed court papers, Elisa Kwon accuses her former beau Greg Calvino, 45, of reneg ing on a pledge he had made to not "use drugs, stay out late, frequent strippers or prosti tutes." The 30-something Kwon insists Calvino had vowed that if he ever did any of those things again, she could cash a $100,000 check he had made out to her.
Sanford Man Finds $100,000 In Attic, Starts Legal Fight
Bernard Salcedo was looking for a bad wire in his attic after the power went out when he found $100,000 in cash, starting a messy legal fight over who should get the cash.
The money was hidden in a cavity cut in the insulation in four plastic bags filled with $20 and $100 bills stuffed into a strongbox. The 26-year-old computer engineer remembered someone was killed in the home years earlier, so he called police. "We didn't know if the murderer knew about the money," Salcedo said. "We decided the best course of action was to let someone know."
General Lee's Civil War-era letters fetch $61,000 at auction
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) -- For months, 11 folders of old papers rescued from his parents' closet sat in Thomas Willcox's sport utility vehicle. Then he realized some were signed by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and might be valuable.
They were: The three letters written by Lee during the Civil War sold at auction Saturday for $61,000.
Boomer Statistics You Never Hear About
For Americans ages 35 to 54:
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The dead still have to pay library fines
HARRISON, N.Y. -- Even the dead apparently have to pay the fines on their overdue books at one Westchester County library. Elizabeth Schaper said she was charged a 50-cent late fee while turning in a book that her late mother had checked out of a Harrison Public Library branch.
"I was in shock," Schaper said. "This has rocked me to my core."
What's Homer Simpson's Middle Name?
Have a friend who loves The Simpsons? Ask him or her what's Homer Simpson's middle name is. I bet you they won't know it or claim that Homer does not have one. But he does. It's Jay. Homer's full name is Homer Jay Simpson. Here is proof.
Former US Missile Base Put On eBay For $1.5 Million
