| Top 10 scams: Fraud schemes harder to track
The schemes are becoming more varied with the increased use of the Internet, cell phones and e-mail, Deery said.Despite numerous complaints about scams, it is difficult to catch the perpetrators, who work throughout the world and use technology to mask themselves.Victims are often people who need money in today's tough economic times, she said. And they often have no recourse. "It's the people who are in those desperate situations or are in huge debt who are falling for these scams," Deery said, and "It's hard to find out who is really behind it and who is really accountable."Bozeman Police Lt. Rich McLane said the department receives several calls about scams a month, although people are not falling for them."We're not getting as many calls of people actually getting scammed," McLane said.
TomTom appears to have met its match
It seemed too easy. We set out on a mission to stump the TomTom, one of the new generation of Global Positioning Satellite devices that stick to the windshield with a suction cup and promise to eliminate the need to ever open a map or ask for directions. Craftily, we entered an address that could baffle veteran cabbies: 10 Gold St., South Boston. Besides being one of Southie's narrowest residential ways, Gold Street is also bisected by railroad tracks. The TomTom guided us down Old Colony Avenue onto Dorchester Avenue and within minutes had us turning onto Gold Street. "You have reached your destination," TomTom's female narrator announced. But our way was blocked by a chain link fence sporting a sign that read, "DANGER No Trespassing." We were in the shadow of the MBTA Employees Credit Union.
2008 Ford Mustang
Once we were young men. Old men now, we dream of getting a car that in our youth may have escaped us. But that car has always been at the forefront of our masculine existence. Many a hot, late summer afternoon and moon lipped night have been spent dreaming of a new car. When I was a lad, new cars were introduced in the fall. GTO, Impala, Corvette, and Mustang were constant companions in my dreams growing up. My two favorite dream subjects were the Ford Mustang and a cheerleader named Sandy Smith. I worked hard, saved my money, but was never able to get the Mustang. I lost Sandy, too, probably because of little money and no Ford Mustang. Well, I don't know where Sandy is today, but for the last week a Ford Mustang has been sleeping in my garage. Over 40 years have passed since high school, and in some ways my life didn't go quite like I had hoped.
Why Salmond laughed all the way to the Budget
If you want your heart's desire, if you want me out, take it to the electorate. How best to put this? Here's how: confronted with that choice, Labour ran away. It did not have the stomach, the confidence, the organisation or (a lovely irony) the cash to take on the Nationalists. In that, not in £950 cheques or strange abstentions, lies the lasting damage to Ms Alexander. How do you tell voters that Mr Salmond is doing untold damage to Scotland yet refuse the invitation to attempt to remove him? Even if Labour and the Liberals had failed to muster all the votes required to defeat the Budget, cause the First Minister to resign and force an election, it might, surely, have seized a half-chance. Not a bit of it. The last thing it wanted was another trip to the polls.
City may lose pull at State House
In terms of local legislation, home-rule petitions, it should not make a huge difference." State Senator Pam Resor, an Acton Democrat, is stepping away at the end of this term after nine years. Now-former state representative Stephen LeDuc, a Marlborough Democrat, gave his farewell speech last week and has already started his new job as assistant clerk-magistrate at Marlborough District Court. He was in the State House for 11 years. Two candidates have taken out nomination papers for the Senate seat: State Representative Jamie Eldridge, an Acton Democrat, and Marlborough City Councilor Steven Levy, a Republican. The Senate district stretches along Interstate 495 north of the Massachusetts Turnpike, and covers Marlborough, Acton, Ayer, Boxborough, Hudson, Littleton, Maynard, Shirley, Stow, Harvard, Southborough, and Westborough, and parts of Sudbury and Northborough.
October 2005 Archives
Besides, with all the screaming he does during his stand-up you'd think he'd have trouble hearing in the first place. At 43, Sheryl looks good, sounds good and is just radiating happiness. But she made me a little uneasy. Why? Because I'm a cynical celebrity writer. So when I hear a star go on -- and on -- about her amazing celebrity boyfriend, a red flag goes up and I wanna yell: "Shhhh! Keep it to yourself. You're gonna jinx it." If Sheryl mentioned my husband Lance Armstrong once during the show, she mentioned him six times. She talked about how she spent the last few years going to his bike races. She jokingly referred to the white dress she was wearing as her wedding dress. She mentioned how she's been spending a lot of time with his kids. She talked about how he's an "actor" now.
Clearview Mall imposes curfew
Most folks are accustomed to showing a driver's license or some other identification when entering a nightclub or boarding an airplane. But now, that's something some patrons of Clearview Mall in Metairie will have to get used to, under a new policy aimed at controlling crowds of unruly youngsters and teenagers. According to the mall's Parental Escort Policy, patrons 16 and under must be accompanied by an adult who is at least 21 years old on Fridays and Saturdays from 4 p.m. until closing. To enforce the rule, the mall has hired extra security to guard the shopping center's entrances and card the masses, General Manager Tara Lubrano said. The policy went into effect Friday. "We like to welcome everyone to come to the mall, but to crack down on the security issue we had to do something," she said.
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