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Man buys beer, robs bank, returns to bar
When robbing a bank, it would probably be wise not to return to the place you were right before the robbery. According to WTSP-TV in Florida, 52-year-old John Robin Whittle left a bar to get some money after buying a beer and returned later. But in-between that was his decision…
Little light at end of U.S. unemployment tunnel
Unemployment in the United States, deeply entrenched and painfully high, appears set to continue for years amid sluggish economic growth too weak to bring it down, new data shows. After a steep recession, the world’s biggest economy is growing nowhere near enough to compensate for population growth that swells the…
‘Occupy Oakland’ protesters shut down Port of Oakland
Several thousand “Occupy Oakland” protesters on Wednesday night shut down the California city’s port, one of the busiest in the United States. Some 5,000 people joined the protest, organizers said, in a strong start for the strike, called after police raided the group’s downtown encampment last week and later clashed…
‘Occupy SF’ blocks Wells Fargo HQ; 11 arrested
Protesters associated with Occupy SF, an offshoot of New York’s ongoing Occupy Wall Street demonstration, have migrated and formed a thick cluster outside the headquarters of Wells Fargo bank, making it necessary for police officers to escort workers in and out of the building’s doors. Eleven protesters have been arrested…
It Takes Two To Lie, One To Lie And One To Be Black
Wells Fargo is being dishonestly accused of targeting black Baltimore residents (Baltimoreans?) based on truly scant evidence: As she describes it, Beth Jacobson and her fellow loan officers at Wells Fargo Bank “rode the stagecoach from hell” for a decade, systematically singling out blacks in Baltimore and suburban Maryland for…
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