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Mark Magee walked into the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort last year with a grudge and a gun. He believed the casino - like the 10 others in Atlantic City - cheats gamblers by electronically manipulating the outcome of table games like roulette and craps. And because of that, he felt, someone needed to die. Monday morning, Magee admitted in court that he fatally shot Ray Kot, a veteran shift manager at the Taj Mahal, whom he knew from regularly gambling there.

If you have bad credit in the new era of credit card regulation, be prepared to pay -- dearly -- for the privilege of using credit. That's the message underlying recent credit card offers that feature jaw-dropping interest rates of up to 79.9 percent. The sky-high rates may be a sign of things to come in the market for so-called subprime credit cards as issuers who lend to the riskiest of borrowers try to figure out how to stay in business and comply with the new credit card reform law. "We need to price our product based on the risk...