Conn. Library: Pay Fines With Toiletries
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WETHERSFIELD, Conn. - People who owe overdue fines to the Wethersfield Library can pay them off with pasta, canned foods or items such as toothpaste.  The library is collecting food and toiletries needed for the food bank in exchange for forgiving fines on overdue books and materials.
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CHICOPEE -- Beverly Ann Pise, still recovering from a painful kidney condition, stuffs newspapers into plastic bags and piles them on her living room floor before heading out on an 18-mile delivery route. Even though it's her second job, her goal looks unattainable: whittling down her growing medical debt.
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Or: How to wait in line all day in the summer heat and pay $200 for nothing.
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BRAINTREE -  The Friends of Thayer Public Library will  sponsor a special collection of televisions, computer monitors and other electronic items containing hazardous waste materials from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 3, in the town hall parking lot, 1 John F. Kennedy Memorial Drive.
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By Sharon Kiley Mack, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Dec.
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Whenever a Washington Redskins offensive lineman commits a penalty, he has to put money into a kitty that is kept by guard Randy Thomas. The "fines" run about $25 per foul, so the enterprise hurts the ego more than the wallet.
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There's an unwritten code of urban etiquette on Boston's narrow and often-snowy neighborhood streets: You shovel a parking space and it's yours. But this year, the city is cracking down on this age-old rule and warning residents that it will no longer tolerate the garbage cans, the chairs, the boxes and the Christmas trees that people put out along the curb to reserve the parking spaces they sweated to clear.
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BAY CITY, Mich. - Stacks of chronically overdue library books may soon land some readers in Bay County, Mich., more than just a 10-cent-a-day fine. Frustrated librarians are proposing a crackdown on the worst offenders that could include criminal charges and up to 90 days in jail.
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A judge is offering traffic violators a choice: pay a fine or make a &#36;100 donation to a tsunami relief charity.
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A restaurant in the capital is fined Â£18,000 after hygiene inspectors found mouse droppings on dishes.
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Got a shoebox full of receipts from purchases you made this year? Hold onto them and make sure to have them handy come tax time. Congress this week temporarily reinstated a law that gives Texans - as well
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BURLINGTON, Iowa - A psychiatrist who police say smeared excrement on dollars bills used to pay a parking ticket has been fined $250.
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PORT WASHINGTON, Wis. - A bar owner's attempt to avoid wasting leftover beer got him a sharp reprimand and a $172 ticket. Ray Wendt used a Miller Lite tap to serve Coors Light. He said he told customers they were drinking Colorado beer, not that from nearby Milwaukee.
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Candle, $9.99. Personal lubricant, $15.00. Animated pornography ... priceless. Commentary by Regina Lynn.
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WINNIPEG (CP) - Manitoba businesses say a list of fines the provincial government can now levy under the province&#39;s anti-smoking law could result in multiple penalties for a single offence.
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By Michael P. Mayko, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport  Dec.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- A Norwalk doctor charged in a vaccine fraud case has been fined $30,000 and has been placed on probation for two years.