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VIA: WRAL.COM Police say a man who robbed a fast-food restaurant with a gun was so mad about the amount of loot that he called back twice to complain. The man walked up to the drive-through window of an Atlanta Wendy’s late Saturday night, wearing a ski mask and holding a gun. MORE
In the current economic environment, one impact of the credit crunch is that it’s getting harder than ever to obtain loans of all kinds, including student loans. Unfortunately, millions of Americans rely on loans to pay for a college education. That’s why roughly $730 billion in federal and private student loans are outstanding, and only […]
Anita Baker fans can circle the date on their calendar: The much-loved Detroit songstress has targeted Nov. 9 to issue her next album.
NEW ORLEANS – BP officials say the role of a relief well long considered the only sure-fire way to kill the Gulf oil leak is now unclear. BP PLC Senior Vice President Kent Wells said Monday that engineers may pump cement directly into the busted well via a surface ship. The company had already said […]
VIA: CNNMONEY.COM The housing bust has made owning a home a lot more affordable — but in some places, prices are extraordinary; you can buy a nice condo for less than the cost of a new family car. Some cities have dozens of attractive condominium listings selling for $50,000 or $25,000. There are some selling […]
Buyer’s beware. Criminals are now targeting lesser known products from shoes to toilet paper. Yes, toilet paper. Counterfeiters now resort to using the Internet which is much harder to patrol and enforce. The New York Times Read More
Firefighters on Friday morning were trying to prevent the fire from moving into densely populated areas in the Leona Valley near Palmdale. At least 1,500 homes are threatened. The winds that caused the flames to spread so quickly lessened overnight, but more high temperatures were predicted for Friday. Firefighters also planned on Friday to get […]
A South African ballet dancer from a poor township outside Cape Town has been given the chance to train in the United States — all because of a documentary film, and an email from a caring viewer. “Ghetto Ballet” is a documentary that chronicles the lives of four young ballet dancers living in one of […]
Tim Masters, who served nine years of a life sentence after his 1998 arrest in Peggy Hettrick’s murder, said he hopes Fort Collins, Colorado, and Larimer County will finally acknowledge he was railroaded. The city and county have paid Masters a combined $10 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit related to the conviction, but […]
MORE Investigators discovered the body of missing Memphis basketball star Lorenzen Wright in Southeast Memphis Wednesday. Wright’s body was found in a wooded area adjacent to the Fieldstone apartment complex off Hacks Cross and Winchester Roads. He had been missing for more than a week. News of the discovery spread quickly and crowds of Wright’s […]
VIA: CBSNEWS.COM Personal attacks in politics are nothing new, but it’s not often that someone runs political attack ads against her own father. That’s why the decision by Jan Schill, 31, to launch a campaign against her father, Oklahoma judicial candidate John Mantooth, is garnering such attention. Schill and her husband, Andrew Schill, bought a […]
