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I posted about existing home sales rising for the past three months on Friday, well now, we have more good news from the real estate sector…
New home sales rose by 11 percent in June, which is the largest amount of growth in nearly nine years. Experts are hoping these signs show that a near-dead housing [...]
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A legal loophole in Rhode Island law allows 16 and 17 year old teens to strip as long as they are home by 11:30 on school nights.
“While teens cant pump gas or climb ladders on the job because of protections in workplace laws, there is nothing on the books keeping 16- and 17-year-olds from stripping [...]
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There has been a lot of talk in California about the possibility of legalizing marijuana and taxing the states biggest cash crop to help pull the state out of its’ current financial mess.
The California tax board says that the state could reap about $1.4 billion dollars by the tax, but there are doubts about the [...]
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There has been a growing wave of coordinated cyberattacks against our government from unknown sources in the past month, and a shortage of cyber specialists in our Federal agencies is threatening our national security.
“The study describes a fragmented federal cyber force, where no one is in charge of overall [...]
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Josh Muszynski took a look at his bank account online and noticed something a little bit out of the normal - a $23,148,855,308,184,500 debit charge.
The man swiped his debit card at a gas station when he was bought a pack of cigarettes and was severely overcharged.
“I thought my card had been compromised. I thought [...]
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TV’s American Idol host, Ryan Seacrest, has signed a $45 million dollar contract with the long running reality show. Exhibit 10.1 is a $30 million dollar guarantee agreement payable to Ryan Seacrest for his services and network exclusivity on American Idol seasons 9, 10 and 11. Exhibit 10.2 is a $15 million dollar consideration agreement also payable to Ryan Seacrest for the right of American Idol to use his personal goodwill in media for the show.
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Two Trial Courts in California are closing their courtrooms and furlough staff once a month in an effort to save some money in the states financial crisis. Closing these courts on the third Wednesday of every month for the next fiscal year is supposed to save the state over $18 million dollars.
Local leaders were waiting [...]
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A South Carolina funeral home that cut the legs off a corpse to make it fit in a casket was ordered to close today.
Judge Deborah Durden ruled after a hearing Tuesday that last month’s decision by the state Funeral Board to revoke the license of Cave Funeral Home and owner Michael Cave should stand.
Cave admitted [...]
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A little news to lighten up the day: An Ohio man was arrested for disorderly conduct a couple months ago, for mowing the foot-high overgrown grass in a city park.
“If we let one person get away with it, then we’d have to let everyone do it; it’d be total anarchy” said the Sandusky police officer.
“The [...]
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A Pennsylvania lawyer who was jailed 14 years for contempt of court was ordered to be released from prison today.
“H. Beatty Chadwick, who has been jailed in suburban Philadelphia since 1995 for a charge stemming from a contentious divorce will be released today.”
That is a long time to jail a productive member of society for [...]
