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Toyota plans to recall 1.7 millions cars and trucks

Toyota plans to recall 1.7 millions cars and trucks

Posted by on January 26, 2011 · 1 Comment

Toyota Motor is to recall nearly 1.7 million vehicles worldwide including 1.2 million in Japan and 421,000 overseas over a fuel leak risk, the automaker and the Transport Ministry said on Wednesday. —– AFP The ministry said by the recall, the ministry said. “Slight cracks may appear [...]
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McDonald’s employee fired for Adrian Peterson use the Bathroom

McDonald’s employee fired for Adrian Peterson use the Bathroom

Posted by on January 14, 2011 · 0 Comment

An assistant manager at McDonald’s was fired after allowing Minnesota Vikings star Adrian Peterson to use the bathroom while the restaurant was closed. While working the late-night drive-thru shift at 3 a.m., a female employee encountered a man standing outside the window who asked to come inside [...]
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Breast implants are targets of tax agents

Breast implants are targets of tax agents

Posted by on January 12, 2011 · 0 Comment

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Breast implants, a luxury cruise ship and bank robbery victims have become the latest targets of Argentine tax inspectors battling rampant evasion in the South American country. Argentines are notorious for evading taxes, and it is common to pay for everything from new cars [...]
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Woman claims $190 million dollar Mega Millions lottery prize

Woman claims $190 million dollar Mega Millions lottery prize

Posted by on January 12, 2011 · 1 Comment

A northern Idaho woman has claimed the remaining half of a $380 million Mega Millions jackpot, Idaho Lottery officials said Wednesday. Holly Lahti, who is apparently from the small town of Rathdrum, will split the second-largest lottery jackpot in history with Jim and Carolyn McCullar of Ephrata, Wash.
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US states name and shame tax cheats

US states name and shame tax cheats

Posted by on March 19, 2010 · 7 Comments

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 [...]
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Man copies key on test drive, steals truck

Man copies key on test drive, steals truck

Posted by on March 12, 2010 · 0 Comment

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 [...]
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Why the Republicans are Making it Hard to be a Supervillain.

Why the Republicans are Making it Hard to be a Supervillain.

Posted by on October 19, 2009 · 3 Comments

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 [...]
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Man charged 23 quadrillion dollars for cigarettes

Man charged 23 quadrillion dollars for cigarettes

Posted by on July 15, 2009 · 0 Comment

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 [...]
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Woman forges bankruptcy seal to save electric

Woman forges bankruptcy seal to save electric

Posted by on April 18, 2009 · 0 Comment

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. [...]
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Caveman thwarts store robber with step ladder

Caveman thwarts store robber with step ladder

Posted by on April 15, 2009 · 0 Comment

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 [...]
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Thief nabbed with 68 tubes of toothpaste

Thief nabbed with 68 tubes of toothpaste

Posted by on April 3, 2009 · 0 Comment

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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Sewage is now Japan’s Gold Rush

Sewage is now Japan’s Gold Rush

Posted by on February 1, 2009 · 1 Comment

TOKYO (Reuters) – Resource-poor Japan just discovered a new source of mineral wealth — sewage. A sewage treatment facility in central Japan has recorded a higher gold yield from sludge than can be found at some of the world’s best mines. An official in Nagano prefecture, northwest of Tokyo, [...]
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Vermont man wins $650K after pulling ticket from trash

Vermont man wins $650K after pulling ticket from trash

Posted by on December 30, 2008 · 0 Comment

BERLIN, Vt. – A Vermont man is $650,000 richer after retrieving a lottery ticket he had been given for Christmas but accidentally threw away. Steven LeClair of Richford got the ticket for the Dec. 24 Tri-State Megabucks drawing as a gift from his mother. But it was in a gift bag that LeClair threw [...]
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Woman Sues Sports Bar for Broken Toilet Seat

Woman Sues Sports Bar for Broken Toilet Seat

Posted by on December 4, 2008 · 0 Comment

ALLENTOWN, Pa. – A woman is suing a Pennsylvania sports bar and restaurant, saying she got stuck inside a toilet bowl for 20 minutes after the seat broke. Kathleen Hewko of Delran Township, N.J., says she was in the bathroom at Starters Pub near Allentown when the handicapped toilet seat she was sitting [...]
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Economy under par? Play less golf

Economy under par? Play less golf

Posted by on August 21, 2008 · 0 Comment

South Korea’s President Lee Myung-bak has told officials to give up golf for the moment because it sends the wrong signal just as the economy has hit the rough. “Golf is not bad but … as prices are unstable and the economic situation is not getting better, President Lee thinks they [...]
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