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Rapper DMX arrested again - this time for identity theft
Rapper DMX has been arrested at a Phoenix mall on a felony charge of taking the identity of another. Phoenix police Sgt. Andy Hill did not have details of the charge, as it stemmed from a Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office case.50 Emergency Uses for Your Camera Phone
50 Emergency Uses for Your Camera Phone by Paul Purcell In an emergency you'll not only need to provide and receive help, but after the event is over, you'll face the prospect of return, repair, and rebuilding. Central to all these activities is communication and documentation. Everything in our society carries a heaping helping of red tape, and disasters are no different.India in biggest biometric count
A planned Unique Identification (UID) number for Indian citizens will be backed by biometric authentication, the head of the project has told BBC. Fingerprints and photographs of more than a billion people will be taken when they are registered for the identity number, Nandan Nilekani said. The biometric evidence will be stored online in what will be the biggest such national database in the world.As if It Needed to, Virginia Bans Smiles at the DMV
By Nick Miroff Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, May 28, 2009 www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/27/AR2009052703627.html?hpid=topnews Few places in Virginia are as draining to the soul and as numbing to the buttocks as the branch offices of the Department of Motor Vehicles. And yet, until recently, smiling was still permitted there. No more.New York Tackles Wage Theft Against Immigrants
NPR All Things Considered, May 19, 2009 · On a bustling sidewalk in the Dominican neighborhood of New York City's Washington Heights, Carmen Calderon reaches over a folding table to wave a pamphlet at a sandwich delivery man, shouting in Spanish, "You know your rights as a worker?" The man smiles and keeps biking. But in the course of an afternoon Calderon manages to lure others and deliver her message, part of a new effort by New York State's Labor Department to combat wage theft among this city's enormous immigrant workforce.The case of the talented Mr. Biden
Identity theft: The case of the talented Mr. Biden
By Paul Greenberg
Barack Obama's beautifully choreographed campaign, from the stunning debut in Iowa to the cheering masses in Berlin, may have just made its fatal error, and its name is Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., a U.S. senator from Delaware. Even though he once confused himself with The Hon. Neil Kinnock, MP.
Courtney Love in suicide drama
Right after Courtney Love said that someone stole her late husband Kurt Cobain’s ashes, leaving her “suicidal,” police were called to her home to intervene in a reported suicide attempt. Courtney was sleeping at the time and someone pranked her by calling the cops and claiming she was suicidal. Cops had a “5150″ order with them, which gives them the authority to take someone to a psychiatric facility, but Courtney somehow convinced them in her slurry stream of consciousness way that she was completely surprised to see them and was sober and sleeping before they came.I really don't know what else to do--S.O. is dealing with addiction
First of all, I appreciate the advice. I realize I've made many mistakes, I've been foolish and worse, made myself a willing victim. The father of my child is a really good liar (which he always says to this: as long as it's not against the law...he sees nothing wrong with deny, deny, deny--he's probably the only man who thinks Scott Peterson an innocent man who doesn't deserve to be in jail, because he claims that just because Scott Peterson's a liar, it doesn't mean he's a bad guy).
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