Anonymous Man Gives &#36;35K to Homeless
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Residents of Samaritan House didn't know what to expect when the bearded, middle-aged man parked his sport utility vehicle in front of the downtown homeless shelter Christmas Eve.
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With just 78 cents in his savings account and &#36;44,000 owed to creditors, parking attendant Juan Rodriguez plunked down &#36;1 on a lottery ticket. Good thing he wasn't pinching pennies: He won a &#36;149 million lottery jackpot.
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The NBA players' union has decided to donate &#36;500,000 to help victims of last month's Indian Ocean tsunami, and the NBA will match the gift, a league spokesman said Friday.
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Who wouldn't like to make $35,000 for doing nothing?
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Three in 10 Americans say they have donated to the victims of the South Asia tsunami, an Associated Press poll found. The total of private donation is rapidly approaching the &#36;350 million pledged by the government as private citizens made many of their donations online.
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MINNEAPOLIS - A homeless man with nowhere else to go says he went back to his old high school and posed as a student for three weeks, sitting in on classes, showering in the locker room and sleeping in the theater.
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GROVE, Okla. - A pastor handed out $14,000 to congregation members to invest for seven weeks, after which they are to bring the money and profits back to the church to be used in missionary work.
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A man who collected &#36;68,000 from a charity by falsely claiming his boyfriend died in the World Trade Center attacks has pleaded guilty to grand theft.
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DES MOINES, Iowa - A man has been ordered to pay more than $13,000 to his former neighbors who he spied upon while sitting naked in his house.
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One unidentified person was fined $57,931 for sending four messages, in one of which he &quot;borrowed&quot; the identify of the chief Dutch anti-spam expert to advertise an edition of Adolf Hitler&#39;s book &quot;Mein Kampf.
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A man who donated a kidney to a Colorado man he met through a Web site says he should be considered "a hero," and insists his past &#151; including more than &#36;8,000 in overdue child support payments &#151; has nothing to do with his decision to help.
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By Associated Press  A state board awarded $440,224 on Thursday for a homeless shelter in Vernal, where the oil and gas boom has housing in short supply.
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CHICAGO, Jan. 29 -- Sen. Barack Obama's political campaign said Tuesday that it has given to charity $72,650 linked to Illinois real estate developer Antoin Rezko, on the same day that a judge ordered Rezko to jail ahead of his scheduled trial on extortion charges.
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CROMWELL, Ind. - A thief with a taste for pork put a damper on a fundraiser for scholarships by making off with nearly 350 pounds of porkburgers and hot dogs, police said.
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Recent research shows some unexpected links between income and giving.
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CHICAGO -- The former director of a nonprofit that delivers holiday meals to some 5,000 needy Chicagoans has been charged with siphoning off $93,000 from the organization and leaving taxpayers with the tab.
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By Karl Fischer, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jan. 31--RICHMOND -- They caught him with his pants down, so to speak.   Facing a handgun in an unfamiliar alley in Richmond, with no good excuse for being there, the man quickly handed over his wallet and keys.