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A new device reminds drivers when a car payment is due. And if they don't pay up, they're not going anywhere.--- ST. PETERSBURG - One of life's cruel quirks got Amber Jumbelick into trouble. When the 23-year-old waitress had her first child, she began paying expenses by credit card. Then she lost her job and her ability to pay bills. Her credit tanked. "I needed a car, but my credit was so bad nobody would give me a loan," Jumbelick said. "I'm a waitress and a single mom with a baby boy. I don't have extra money to put away."...

The coming economic crisis. Unemployment. Health care for the poor. The almost 1,500 dead soldiers. The almost 100,000 dead Iraqis. Armstrong Williams and Maggie Gallagher. The Christian Conservative takeover of our nation. The missing 9 billion. The missing weapons of mass destruction. The impending invasion of Iran, and Syria. The total failure to protect us on 9-11.

When Reps. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) teamed up in September to get the House to pass an amendment blocking the use of private companies to collect back taxes from delinquent taxpayers, it seemed the Bush administration plan might be doomed for at least a year.

DANIA BEACH, Fla. -- South Florida police say a teenager tried to rob a convenience store, but had the wrong bullets for his weapon. When customers saw the 16-year-old struggling to load the weapon, they took action and it was all caught on tape. Surveillance cameras inside the 7-Eleven store in Dania Beach show the 16-year-old walk in with his shirt over his head, holding a .22-caliber rifle. He pointed the rifle and the clerk, but then lowered it and began going through his pockets. "[He] remembers he forgot to load it. So he takes time out to reach in...

    ‘Cyber Hall of Shame’ targets delinquent taxpayers created: March 26, 2003 - 5:27 PM updated: March 27, 2003 - 5:50 AM 9NEWS Legislative Reporter Adam Schrager <!null CB> RELATED State of Louisiana latest delinquent taxpayer accounts Connecticut delinquent taxpayer list DENVER - Public shaming could soon be in store for Colorado's worst tax evaders. State lawmakers are debating a plan to publish the names and addresses on the Internet of those who owe the state of Colorado at least $20,000 in income taxes. Its sponsor calls House Bill 1210 a "Cyber Hall of Shame." 9NEWS Reporter Adam...

Lead poisoning linked to delinquent behaviour January 27 2003 at 06:27AM Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - Children exposed to lead have a much greater chance of developing delinquent behaviour, researchers say. Dr Herbert Needleman, of the University of Pittsburgh in the United States, examined 194 youths convicted in a juvenile court in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and compared them with 146 non-delinquents from high schools in Pittsburgh. He found the delinquent youths had significantly higher average concentrations of lead in their bones - 11 parts per million, compared with 1,5 ppm in the control group. The research, published in the journal Neurotoxicology and...