| Heavy ATM user found with more than 200 credit cards
TUCSON, Ariz. -- The arrest of a man using an automated-teller machine in downtown Tucson Saturday afternoon resulted in the recovery of more than 200 credit cards and $176,690 in cash, police said. Marc A. Burton, 20, was being held at the Pima County jail on charges of theft, fraudulent schemes and artifices, aggravated identity theft and theft of a credit card. Shortly after 1 p.m., someone called police to report that a man at the U.S. Bank ATM, was using several credit cards, Tucson police said. The caller said the man then went across the street to a Chase bank ATM and did the same thing. When officers arrived, the man had left the Chase site. However, officers said they found Burton nearby at a Wells Fargo ATM., said Sgt. Fabian Pacheco, a Tucson Police Department spokesman.
As snow blows, business booms at Sifto Canada
Sifto is the largest rock-salt mine in the world and a major North American supplier. I would say its been a very busy year all around, he said on Monday. Everyone is looking for supplies of salt and we are one of the few places that can meet that demand. Howe said he cannot remember a time when they were this busy during the winter season. He also said it is unusual to have so many winter storms, and still have shipping routes open, albeit with the aid of ice breakers. Howe said demand for salt is up significantly in the corridor between Chicago and Montreal and all along the Great Lakes. He said it is unusual to see this much demand for salt so late in the season and many of Siftos competitors are running short. It puts an extra burden on us to supply [the salt], he explained. .
Income, spending higher than expected
This trend has been here for a while," said Bullard, who believes that consumers will jump at the chance to spend some extra money when taxpayers get their stimulus package rebate checks starting in May. Congress recently passed a $168 billion economic stimulus plan in which more than 130 million households will receive tax rebate checks beginning in May. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Thursday that the IRS would be mailing out letters reminding taxpayers to file their tax returns to receive their check. "Historically, when consumers have money in their hands, they will spend it," Bullard added. .
Mortgage time bomb is ticking
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Detroit's Cheap Dates
Educating Mr. Wright: Man, it is a tough job, but somebody's got to bring these eggheads up to speed. ... 6:09 P.M. ___________________________ Mrs. Russert Blogs: Maureen Orth notes that "Elvis's death in 1977 rated two paragraphs in People Magazine." But, if memory serves, that's not entirely because the culture of celebrity wasn't well-developed back then (Orth's point). It's because in 1977 Elvis was not such a big deal. ... P.S.: Why isn't Orth blogging for HuffPo? Memo to Arianna: She seems like a natural fit. Memo to Orth: It's not bloggy to let a few little disagreements get in the way of mutually beneficial traffic-sharing. Enmity is so print. The Web's win-win! ... There, I've brought them together.... 12:56 A.M. ___________________________ Wednesday, August 22, 2007 New Orwell on Offense: Andrew Sullivan excoriates pundits who exhibited "spectacular misjudgment about the war in Iraq," something that he says "should consign the author to irrelevance." Fair enough.** [But Sullivan excludes anyone who "explicitly explained why he was wrong and apologized," and Sullivan has apologized, abjectly--ed.
PUBLIC TRANSPORT
CONSUMER ADVICE PUBLIC TRANSPORT Since the mid-1990s, there has been a noticeable improvement in Greece's public transportation systems, including the ferry networks serving the islands. Bus and trolley routes are now served by new fleets, while a new mass transit system in Athens - the metro - has helped relieve congestion in the capital's centre. The 2004 Olympics provided the impetus for improvements in public transport, which include the reintroduction of the tram as a link between the southern coastal suburbs and downtown Athens. Tram The tram has three lines: from Neos Kosmos (metro station) to Hellenic Olympic Complex (Agios Kosmas) and from Glyfada to the Peace and Friendship Stadium (alongside the Faliro Sports Complex). The third line runs from Syntagma to Glyfada.
Kearney gets mandatory life sentence for murder of his wife
The prosecution had argued that Kearney strangled his wife at their home at Knocknashee, Goatstown, on February 28th, 2006 - his 49th birthday - and then tried to fake a suicide by hoisting her over an ensuite bathroom door with a vacuum cleaner flex. The motive, they said, was that Siobhán's plan to leave her husband would add to his financial pressures. Mr Justice Barry White had asked that there be "no emotional outbursts or no triumphalist outbursts" after the verdict was delivered and, when it came, just after 3.45pm, a heavy silence hung over the crammed courtroom. Kearney himself stared inscrutably ahead, as those around him began to weep. Aoife, his daughter from a previous relationship, slumped her head into her father's shoulder and sobbed quietly into the silence.
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