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At this time in the 2000 primary season, George W. Bush vanquished his rival Sen. John McCain. Four years later, the tables have turned, and six Democrat presidential candidates are struggling to slow Sen. John Kerry's massive momentum. While talk of a Kerry-John Edwards ticket is widespread, few people are considering who should be President's Bush running mate. On January 27, however, MSNBC.com columnist Jeannette Walls broke the silence, reporting that President Bush would replace Vice President Dick Cheney and that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was the frontrunner. A White House source then quelled at least part...

<p>When police officers woke Ann Robinette at home in Centralia, Mo., just after 1 o'clock one morning, she feared that someone was hurt or a relative had died.</p> <p>Instead, the officers arrested her for failing to pay a $2 ticket for parking in a zone reserved for police cars.</p>

<p>NEW MILFORD, Conn. (AP)- Courtesy counts in dealing with customers, but it also has paid off for a supermarket cashier who says a rude customer turned out to be worth $25,000.</p> <p>A grumpy customer was the source of luck for Loretta Morris who works at the Northville Market.</p>

<p>ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia man held two of three winning tickets for a $70 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot, good for a cash option prize of $26.6 million before taxes, lottery officials said. Stephen Cooke of Roswell said Wednesday that he didn't realize until he went to claim the prize that he had double-purchased the winning numbers for Tuesday's drawing.</p>

Even as the president’s approval drops back to pre-war levels and gloomy views on the economy continue, George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney (search) top a Democratic ticket of former Vice President Al Gore (search) and New York Sen. Hillary Clinton (search ) in a hypothetical matchup. According to the latest FOX News national poll of registered voters, conducted August 12-13 by Opinion Dynamics Corporation, a Republican ticket of Bush and Cheney would beat a Gore-Clinton ticket by 50 percent to 39 percent. As both Gore and Clinton have said they will not run in 2004, this is...

Whether you are a school board in California, an ice cream company in Vermont or a fast food place, with outlets across the country, you are in the cross hairs of people who see you, pardon the metaphor, as their meal ticket.

Lawsuit claims troopers have ticket quotas Ex-Trooper of the Year alleges that opposition to quotas forced him out of S.C. Highway PatrolThe S.C. Highway Patrol operated a quota system that rewarded troopers who met ticket-writing goals and punished those who did not, a two-time Trooper of the Year contends in a federal lawsuit. "Troopers who wrote greater numbers of tickets were rewarded with promotions and other benefits," says the lawsuit, filed Friday for former Trooper Edward McAbee, 38. "Troopers who were perceived to write an insufficient number of tickets were treated with indifference, disdain or outright contempt," the lawsuit says....

(1010 WINS) (NEW YORK) It appears the New York City budget crunch has police writing tickets for things that are moving and not moving. A Bronx man tells the Daily News he was given a ticket for sitting on a milk crate outside the hair salon where he works on the Grand Councourse. The ticket says "unauthorized use of a milk crate." The fine was not immediately known. But 19-year-old Jesse Taveras told the News he was flabbergasted when the police officer handed him the ticket Sunday afternoon. Taveras says the cop told him to "Blame Bloomberg." Owning a stolen...

SEATTLE - "It's all about safety." That's been the Washington State Patrol mantra around the "Click it or Ticket" law. Of course, now we come to find that writing 3 seatbelt tickets an hour means that troopers can "safely" pocket overtime pay. The devil, as they say, is in the details. And the details are in a contract with the State Traffic Safety Commission and law enforcement agencies, including the state patrol. The contract spells out how federal money is funneled into enforcement of the seat-belt law: write "x" number of tickets and the state gets federal grant money, which...

District court showdown -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wed, Jan 15, 2003 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Judge, defendant at stalemate as obscenity ruling heads for trial Call it the showdown at 53rd District Court. Eric Wilmoth, the 26-year-old Howell resident who wrote obscenities on the memo line of a check he used to pay a traffic fine, won't admit guilt. Judge John Pikkarainen, who found Wilmoth in contempt of court for writing the offensive check, won't dismiss the case. It all means that the case of the obscene check will move on to an evidentiary hearing on Jan. 24 at 1:30 p.m., which could include arguments and...

Incumbent Protection Act On Nov. 5, 70 percent of Lubbock County voters cast a straight ticket Republican vote. A vote that reelected every Republican incumbent in Lubbock County. The straight ticket Republican voter disregarded a candidate's record and even the candidate's adherence to the Republican Party's Texas platform, which states, among other things, that, "We believe that government spending is out of control and needs to be reduced. We support fundamental, immediate tax reform that is simple, fair and fully disclosed." How many Lubbock County taxpayers have seen government spending reduced or their taxes lowered by the previous Republican-dominated Lubbock...

Zimbabwe's new middle class have one ambition: a ticket out By Peta Thornycroft in Harare (Filed: 29/10/2002) Zimbabwe's black middle class lives in a street near you in London, according to one economist, Farai Zizhou. "They spoke with their feet," he said. On a recent evening at Harare International Airport, an Air Egypt cheap flight to Cairo was full. Hundreds of people milled around the check-ins, all on their way to London. George Satande, 36, a partner in a pharmacy in Harare's leafiest suburb, manages to pay the bills only because his wife, a nurse, works in London. "It's strenuous...

<p>Fasten your seat belts: the state Department of Transportation and county police departments are bringing back the successful "Click It Or Ticket" enforcement program in November. State transportation officials and law enforcement agencies are scheduled to meet next week to plan the next phase of the program, said state transportation spokeswoman Marilyn Kali.</p>

Erroneous ticket drives motorist to distraction Citation: A Severn resident finds himself on an unexpected odyssey through a maddening bureaucratic maze. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Marcia Myers Sun Staff Originally published April 18, 2002 Charles Ricketts opened his mail two Saturdays ago to find a traffic citation with supposedly foolproof evidence that he had run a red light. The enclosed photo, taken at 4:48 p.m. March 26 by an enforcement camera at Reisterstown Road and Menlo Drive, showed a dark purple Dodge Caravan with Maryland license plate M182782. Ricketts drives a dark green Plymouth Voyager with an almost identical Maryland plate -...