Jennifer Aniston, hit by scam

Jennifer Aniston named as victim of salon fraud The owner of a Beverly Hills beauty salon was arrested on Wednesday on charges of stealing credit card information from Jennifer Aniston, Anne Hathaway and Liv Tyler and running up tens of thousands of fraudulent payments on their accounts. According to court documents in the case, a [...]

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Posted in Finance, Law, Odd News, Odd Stuff & News, Off Topic on Jul 21st, 2012, 11:29 PM by admin     

Controversial SCOTUS Decision

Much has been made of late about the hyper-partisan political environment in America. On Tuesday, Sen. Evan Bayh explained his surprising recent decision to leave the Senate by lamenting a “dysfunctional” political system riddled with “brain-dead partisanship.” It seems you’d be hard-pressed to get Republicans and Democrats inside and outside of Washington to agree on [...]

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Posted in Law on Jul 12th, 2012, 2:04 AM by admin     

Celebrities who have served time in jail

Rapper 50 Cent (Curtis Jackson) pled guilty to felony charges of peddling heroin and crack cocaine in 1994 at age 19 in New York. He served a total of six months in boot camp. In 2003, he was sentenced to two years probation for battery and assault. This undated photo, supplied by the Teton County [...]

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Posted in Entertainment, Law on Feb 10th, 2012, 3:41 AM by admin  6 comments   

Here’s a Legal Way To Print Money

Here’s a way you might save $20 this year: Change the font in the documents you print. Because different fonts require different amounts of ink to print, you could be buying new printer cartridges less often if you wrote in, say, Century Gothic rather than Arial. Schools and businesses could save thousands of dollars with [...]

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Posted in Finance, Law, Technology on Feb 10th, 2012, 3:41 AM by admin     

Hollywood billboards taken down amid legal battle

LOS ANGELES – Five giant billboards have been removed from buildings in Hollywood near the site of the Academy Awards after Los Angeles prosecutors charged four people and four companies with hanging the so-called supergraphics illegally. The ads for Asics athletic gear that hung horizontally across several storefronts near the Kodak Theater where the Oscars [...]

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Posted in Entertainment, Law on Feb 10th, 2012, 3:40 AM by admin  19 comments   

Cabbie Scam Exposed

They’re not as bad as mechanics or lawyers, but taxi drivers do have a bit of reputation for inflating their fares. But is this true or just an urban legend designed to keep Midwesterners out of Times Square? Unfortunately, it appears to have a ring of truth to it. We’re not saying all taxi drivers [...]

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Posted in Auto, Law, Odd News, Odd Stuff & News, Off Topic on Feb 5th, 2012, 12:02 PM by admin     

Lindsay Lohan released from jail

Lindsay Lohan has been released from jail, but she’s not exactly a free woman. The actress was discharged at 1:35 a.m. Monday after serving 14 days of a 90-day sentence for violating her probation in a 2007 drug case, a sheriff’s spokesman said. She is now required to begin a three-month stint in rehab. A [...]

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Posted in Entertainment, Law on Nov 19th, 2011, 9:39 PM by admin     

Online gaming law set to take effect

China’s first law to be initiated against the vastly growing online gaming industry is set to take effect Sunday, state-run media reported. The law has been introduced to protect children from internet addiction and inappropriate content. The action comes following the deaths of numerous children at rehabilitation centers for internet-addicted youths last year. The regulation, [...]

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Posted in Games, Law on Oct 1st, 2011, 1:17 PM by admin     

Money moves you didn’t know were illegal

Money Habits That Are Illegal Forgery. Loan fraud. Counterfeiting. These and other financial crimes might seem like a far cry from most people’s everyday lives. But it’s surprisingly easy to adopt a dicey financial habit under the guise of “everyone does it,” “I was just trying to help” or “it seemed like a good idea [...]

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Posted in Finance, Law, Off Topic on Sep 16th, 2011, 1:42 AM by admin     

The World’s Most Powerful People

The 67 heads of state, criminals, financiers and philanthropists who really run the world. “I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.” — Napoleon Bonaparte Power has been called many things. The [...]

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Posted in Education, Entertainment, Finance, Health & Beauty, Insurance, Law, Odd News, Odd Stuff & News, Off Topic, Sports, Taxes on May 14th, 2011, 8:45 PM by admin     

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