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  • Man charged with stealing five newsstands (Philly)

    06/13/2006 5:35:22 PM PDT · by martin_fierro · 6 replies · 143+ views
    AP/Yahoo ^ | Tue Jun 13, 5:04 PM ET
    Man charged with stealing five newsstands Tue Jun 13, 5:04 PM ET PHILADELPHIA - An apparently frustrated, would-be newsstand operator used a rented crane to steal five newsstands from city streets and redeposit them elsewhere, authorities said. Fatai King of East Mount Airy had filed 42 applications for newsstand licenses with Philadelphia's Department of Licenses and Inspections only to have each rejected, they said. So King lifted the boxes into the air and then positioned them on some of the corners where he had hoped to operate, according to authorities who charged him Thursday with theft and receiving stolen property....
  • N.Y. Sen. Clinton says immigration bill would make her a criminal

    04/05/2006 2:43:45 PM PDT · by Icelander · 113 replies · 2,431+ views
    ap ^ | April 5, 2006, | DEVLIN BARRETT
    WASHINGTON -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton charged Wednesday that a House GOP immigration bill would make her and her Senate aides criminals, and warned of a "ticking time bomb" lurking in the U.S. economy..
  • Berkeley mayor pleads guilty to petty theft

    01/08/2003 2:49:38 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 6 replies · 228+ views
    SJ Mercury News ^ | 1/8/03 | Sandra Gonzales
    <p>Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates pleaded guilty today to a petty theft infraction and was fined $100 for trashing 1,000 copies of the University of California, Berkeley campus newspaper that endorsed his opponent.</p> <p>Bates did not appear in Alameda County Superior Court. His attorney, Malcolm Burnstein, entered the plea on his behalf and paid the fine imposed by Commissioner Beverly Daniels-Greenberg.</p>