NY corpse attempts to cash welfare cheque
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Two cuffed for wheeling dead pal to Pay-O-Matic Two men were arrested yesterday in New York's Hell's Kitchen district after failing to convince staff at a "check-cashing store" to honour the welfare cheque of a deceased friend, the New York Times reports.â¦
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An anonymous tipster who was eligible to receive a &#36;40,000 reward for providing information that led to an arrest in a murder case has turned the money down, asking that it go instead to a charity established in the victim's name.
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Have you already gotten the plea to "Send money!"?
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NEW YORK - The city is showing no mercy to a priest who got a $115 ticket for parking in an ambulance zone while ministering to an ailing hospital patient.  Two months after ticketing the Rev. Cletus Forson of St. Andrew the Apostle Church in Brooklyn, the city has thrown out his appeal.
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By Rita Savard, The Sun, Lowell, Mass.  Feb. 23--CHELMSFORD -- Paying high fees for trash removal prompted residents to raise a stink in the past.
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Kevin Warren, a New York City doorman, knows what he's going to do with his tax rebate check: "I'm going to try to double it."
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News Editor. It&#39;s Thursday and for many, that&#39;s one day short of payday. But before San Marcos residents who find themselves on a tight paycheck-to-paycheck budget write a check this afternoon
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Chicago - An American discount warehouse chain known for &quot;piling &#39;em high, and selling &#39;em cheap&quot;, is offering cut-price coffins along with the buckets of ketchup and seven-litre tubs of ice-cream under a new pilot programme.
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Legal or not, many of us have &quot;floated&quot; payment with a check at some point in our lives. If this is the way you have paid your bills, today is the day to quit cold-turkey.
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A federal law known as Check 21 takes effect Thursday, and whether that&#39;s cause for celebration or commiseration is a matter of much debate.
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NEW YORK -- A New York woman allegedly killed her one-year-old son and dumped his body in the trash in 2000, then collected welfare benefits for him for years, authorities charged yesterday. Diatra Hester-Bey, 33, was ordered held without bail on a ...
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Horace Small knows it's a bad idea to write checks without enough money in the bank to cover them. But with property taxes and car insurance making huge dents in his income, the neighborhood organizer occasionally relies on the &quot;float&quot; -- the two or three days it takes for checks to clear -- to juggle all of his payments.
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HOLTSVILLE, N.Y. - If money could buy happiness, these thieves would be overjoyed. They stole the ATM.  Packs of thieves have been swiping the cash machines from drugstores and mom-and-pop shops around Suffolk County, most recently before dawn Friday.
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A lawsuit is filed on behalf of bummed-out New York customers.
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Death bars refund After a computer glitch allowed him to overdraft almost $9m from his bank account, an Australian man has refused to return the pilfered funds, arguing that he will soon be dead.â¦
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COLUMBUS, Ga. - A cache of cash found in the Columbus landfill was the result of a bank error, police said...
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LONDON: A medieval limestone slab which for years has been used as a gravestone for a dead cat called Winkle has fetched more than Â£200,000 at auction.