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I am moving to Tucson, AZ for six months and I need an apartment. Where are the best places to live?

Vanity Post - I have a question about automobile liability for the state of Texas. I have a step daughter who had her license suspended for a month for a probation violation. But, she also got a speeding ticket that she has not yet gone to court for. She was driving 70mph in a 45. I do not want her driving any of my vehicles ever again. The auto insurance company tells me I can sign a waiver that absolves them from all liability if she were to ever get behind the wheel of any of my cars. My question...

My daughter has been in the US Army for a year stationed in Baltimore doing clerical work. She is 4'10" and weighs 125 on a good day. She has been wanting a car since she joined and she got it in her head that if she got deployed she would come home with a fat check to buy a car. After going on about this for a year, she has managed to get herself transfered and in line for deployment to Afghanistan. Her superior at her current base refused to allow her to deploy. She has no business in a...

As he rushed his family to the hospital, 26-year-old NFL running back Ryan Moats rolled through a red light. A Dallas police officer pulled their SUV over outside the emergency room. Moats and his wife explained that her mother was dying inside the hospital. "You really want to go through this right now?" Moats pleaded. "My mother-in-law is dying. Right now!" The officer, 25-year-old Robert Powell, was unmoved. He spent long minutes writing Moats a ticket and threatened him with arrest. "I can screw you over," the officer told Moats. "I'd rather not do that." The scene last week, captured...

Is it just me or are there others out there that agree. The real problem with bailing out the big three automakers is that they make a poor quality product for the price. Why on earth would you not let nature take its course and allow the sick and dying to pass on. I am 44 years old and as long as I can remember, Toyota and Honda make a better quality vehicle for the price. I have owned Fords, Chevys and Chrysler autos and they suck compared to Honda and Toyota. Let these inferior products leave the marketplace and...

Lewisville teen's hand sanitizer gel sniff 'not a crime' Denton County prosecutors decided Friday to wash their hands of a case against a Lewisville middle school student accused of trying to get high by sniffing his teacher's hand sanitizer. Three days after filing delinquency charges against the youth, prosecutors did a turnaround and decided that the common cleaning gel is not an abusive inhalant under the Texas Health and Safety Code. "It's not a crime. Hand sanitizer does not fall within that statute," said Jamie Beck, first assistant district attorney in Denton County. "The police agency brought it up mistakenly...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) - Former major league All-Star Jose Offerman was charged with two counts of second-degree assault after hitting an opposing team's pitcher and catcher with his bat during an independent minor league game. Offerman posted $10,000 bond and was due in Bridgeport Superior Court on Aug. 23, court officials said Wednesday.

DELCAMBRE, La. -- The Delcambre Town Council said overly saggy britches are obscene, and so does Mayor Carol Broussard, who said he will sign an anti-sag ordinance passed unanimously this week. The addition to the Cajun-country town's indecent exposure ordinance carries penalties of up to six months in jail and a $500 fine for being caught in pants that show undergarments or, in the mayor's view, "private parts." Broussard said he has nothing against saggy pants but thinks people who wear them should use discretion. Low-hanging, baggy pants have become a fashion fad, mostly for young men in the hip-hop...

New Orleans, LA (AHN) - Four middle school students used an unattended classroom to have sex with other students inside the classroom, posting an 11-year-old boy as a lookout. Union Parish Sheriff Bob Buckley said, "After 44 years of doing this work, nothing shocks me anymore. But this comes pretty close." The incident took place on March 27 at Spearsville School in rural Louisiana. All five students were arrested at the school on Tuesday. Those students included two 11-year-old girls, a 12-year-old boy and a 13-year old boy and the 11-year-old lookout, who was charged as being an accessory. The...

My son wants a pair of contact lens that will make his dark brown eyes blue. He wants to buy them with his own money. Does anyone know of a good (cheap) brand that will not look too fake?

I need to get my son a PSP. I have found the same (or what I think is the same) PSP for $150 on ebay as compared to a $200 one at Wally world. Before I go the cheap route, is there something I am missing? There does not seem to be a difference. Can one of you adults please go ask your kid to help me!!

A popular Des Moines Barber shop had a new robotic barber installed. A fellow came in for a haircut. As the robot began to cut his hair it asked him, "What's your IQ?" The man replied, "130." So the robot proceeded to make conversation about physics, astronomy, investments, insurance, and so on. The man listened intently and said, "This is really cool." Later, another gent came in for a haircut and the robot asked him as it began the haircut, "What's your IQ?" The man responded, "100." So the robot started talking about football, baseball, and so on. The man...