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WASHINGTON (AFP) – Americans who don’t pay their taxes face hefty fines, can have their property seized or their wages withheld. Or worse still, they could find themselves named and shamed on the Internet.

The east coast state of Maryland on Thursday published on the Internet its annual “Caught in the Web” list of the 50 biggest tax dodgers in the state, along with the amount the scofflaws owe.

At the top of this year’s list is the name and address of a resident of Towson, near Baltimore, who owes the state more than half a million dollars. Nipping at his heels is a company that owes more than 400,000 dollars.
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LINCOLN, Neb. – Police said a man did more than take a pickup for a spin during a test drive this week. Red Star Auto of Lincoln reported a pickup had been stolen Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning. The dealership’s owner said a 39-year-old man had taken the truck for a test drive earlier Tuesday.

Police believe the man stopped during the test drive to have a copy made of the truck’s key. He returned the truck to the lot, but police believe he stole it overnight using the duplicate key.

The dealership owner drove to the man’s address and found the truck parked about 10 blocks away.

Police arrested the man, and he was still in the Lancaster County jail Thursday morning. Charges had not been filed by early Thursday morning.

I knew going into this profession that it was never going to be easy. Sure, the early days on the job I would don my mask, run into a bank waving around an experimental plasma ray gun, and then promptly get tackled by bank security. Other days I’d just be walking back from the market, only to have the snot beaten out of my by a meddling do-gooder. I would come home with broken bones, bruised ribs, black eyes, but no matter what happened to me, no matter how much life got me down, no matter how bleak things got, I knew that I would preserver. With hard work, grit and more determination than I knew I had, I worked my way up from obscurity and became the villain I am today, well respected amongst my minions and relatively feared.
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MANCHESTER, N.H. – A New Hampshire man says he swiped his debit card at a gas station to buy a pack of cigarettes and was charged over 23 quadrillion dollars.

Josh Muszynski (Moo-SIN’-ski) checked his account online a few hours later and saw the 17-digit number — a stunning $23,148,855,308,184,500 (twenty-three quadrillion, one hundred forty-eight trillion, eight hundred fifty-five billion, three hundred eight million, one hundred eighty-four thousand, five hundred dollars). Read the rest of this entry →

PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh woman made a fake federal bankruptcy court seal on a document in hopes a utility company wouldn’t cut off her electric service. Dorothy Hunt, 41, pleaded guilty to the counterfeiting charge Thursday and faces up to five years in prison when she’s sentenced Aug. 6. Read the rest of this entry →

ACWORTH, Ga. – Police said a would-be robber got more than he bargained for when he tried to rob a Quik Thrift store with a knife. A quick-thinking customer, known only as “Caveman,” grabbed a step ladder and hit the suspect at least once Monday. The customer chased the suspect from the store using the ladder as protection. Read the rest of this entry →

BERLIN (Reuters) – Police in northern Germany are searching for a man who tried to walk out of a supermarket with 68 tubes of toothpaste stuffed into his clothing.
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