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Employees at an Oklahoma City Krispy Kreme store are searching for an elderly man who left behind something very valuable. He dropped nearly $500 in cash while he was in their store, located at Penn and Memorial. The man dropped the money on the floor in the lobby around 4 p.m. Wednesday afternoon. “The gentleman had come in, purchased a couple of donuts. As he was putting his money away, he dropped some on the floor,” said Jason Hart with Krispy Kreme. At the time, no one noticed anything strange. About 20 minutes later, an employee was sweeping the lobby...

Man Finds More Than $40,000 Cash in Utah Home, Returns it to Owners Bountiful, Utah – A man who found more than $40,000 cash in the Utah home he recently bought has returned the money to its rightful owner, The Salt Lake City Tribune reported Thursday. Josh Ferrin discovered the money stuffed in eight ammo boxes in the attic while he was exploring a workshop room in the Bountiful home on Tuesday. "I opened it up, freaked out. Closed it, locked it in my truck and called my wife," Ferrin said of the surprise. At the time he thought of...

05:57 PM CST on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 From Staff Reports Suspected drug dealers are threatening to do harm to Dallas students at Joseph J. Rhoads Learning Center in Dallas, authorities say. Some students found and divided tens of thousands of dollars that allegedly belonged to a neighborhood drug dealer. Sources say the drug dealers have threatened drive-by shootings at the school, where security has been tightened.

The Morant family home is simple: Centered in the rougher St. Clair neighborhood, it's green and white, with siding in need of a little care. On the front lawn, a touch-football dispute rages between kids, while music blares from the house next door. Inside, it's warm, welcoming, even Cosby-like -- sans the expensive sweaters. The living room is accented with miscellaneous Africana in subtle earth tones, and framed wedding pictures of Mark and Stephanie are all around. Other photos are inlaid in wood; a few are of their three daughters, and there's a curious one of a young white woman...

Ellis County man who found thousands gets the cash 06/10/2003 Associated Press WAXAHACHIE, Texas – An Ellis County man has received more than $6,000 after finding cash along Interstate 35 and then turning it over to authorities. The man found $6,900, which had apparently been run over a few times, two months ago as he was driving along I-35 near Waxahachie, said county spokeswoman Diana Buckley. He gave the money to the Department of Public Safety, which then turned it over to Ellis County, Buckley said. The county held the money for 30 days, then advertised it – but no...

Florida couple reels in cash of the day 07/13/2002 Associated Press KEY WEST, Fla. - A young couple fishing in the Florida Keys reeled in a big one a leather bag with about $80,000 inside. The couple, visiting from Vero Beach, Fla., found the bag floating south of the Seven Mile Bridge in the Keys on Saturday. And they can keep the money inside if the owner doesn't claim it in three months, authorities said. "They saw a baseball cap floating out there, and they were going to retrieve the baseball cap, and they found a little leather bag,"...

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