Newsweek Psychics React to Kansas Bill Prohibiting Use of Welfare Money on PsychicsNewsweekLast month, Republican lawmakers across the border in Missouri proposed a bill that would curb food stamp purchases of cookies, chips, energy drink, soft drinks, steak and seafood. If signed into law, poor people could use their monthly allotment of …and more » More:…
Post office planter eyed for new Langley public artSouth Whidbey Record (subscription)Chairman Frank Rose presented a proposal to the city council Monday that the citizen board would like to add public art to a planter in front of the post office on Second Street. “Right now, it's full of shrubs and it's a great place…
Alaska Dispatch News Rural Subsistence Hunters No Longer Need Federal Duck StampsAlaska Public Radio NetworkFor years, it was unclear whether village hunters had to buy the $15 annual duck stamps. Changing the law was a big priority for Alaska Native advocates, and for Alaska Congressman Don Young. Young heralded the announcement of the new federal …New…
Mission Viejo man indicted in San Diego post office robberyOCRegisterA Mission Viejo man and a woman were indicted in United States District Court on Wednesday on suspicion of robbing a San Diego post office branch in January. Scott Howard Kimball, 49, and Amanda Lee Garcia, 32, of Torrance, are each charged with … More: continued here
mirror.co.uk 'Crime clearly pays': eBay fraudster's taunt as he arrives at court in flash …mirror.co.ukA smug eBay fraudster boasted that "crime clearly pays" as he waltzed into a crown court car park driving a flash, brand-new 4×4 . The 27-year-old crook Phillip Shortman told a waiting photographer: "Crime clearly pays, I'm driving a 14 plate…
Columbus Dispatch Misquote on Angelou stamp will be foreverColumbus DispatchOne problem: The quote on the stamp, “A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song,” though widely attributed to Angelou, is not hers. The Washington Post reported it actually comes from Joan Walsh Anglund's book of …Maya Angelou's…
New York Daily News East Harlem bodega ran $2M food stamp scam: prosecutorsNew York Daily NewsAn East Harlem bodega redeemed over $2 million in fraudulent food stamp transactions between April 2013 and March 2015, prosecutors said on Tuesday. The owner of the bodega and their associates allegedly fleeced the government benefits program, the … More: continued…
Allentown Morning Call Package missing three weeks and countingAllentown Morning CallBut when they arrived here March 28, the package still was … somewhere else. So on Monday, March 30, they visited the local post office to see if anyone there could help get it to Northampton where it belonged. "The girl there was very nice,"…
Kindred Post to kick off Tiny Post Office Concert SeriesJuneau Empire (subscription)Kindred Post, a neighborhood post office, gift shop, and community gathering space, will kick off its Tiny Post Office Concert series on April 8 at 7 p.m. with local musicians Dan Kirkwood and Marian Call. The concert series aims to celebrate music …and more »…
WalesOnline 'Crime clearly pays!' eBay fraudster's brazen boasts as he arrives in court in …WalesOnlineThe court heard father-of-three Shortman, of Hillrise in Abersychan, Pontypool, has 17 previous convictions relating to 77 offences including a number for fraudulent transactions on eBay. Shortman had pleaded guilty to a total of 10 counts of fraud …Ebay conman Phillip…