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Arizona man sentenced in ID theft
Senior U.S. District Judge Jack Shanstrom on Wednesday sentenced an Arizona man to 30 months in prison for stealing mail and personal identities. He also ordered $490 restitution.The defendant, Edward Anthony Smith, 27, of Glendale, Ariz., pleaded guilty in April to mail and identity theft charges.Prosecutors said a search of Smith's motel room in Billings in September 2003 turned up mail and checks belonging to two businesses in Meridian, Idaho. A few days earlier, the Idaho businesses reporting having mailboxes vandalized and mail stolen.Mail to nine addresses in Roundup also was found during a search of Smith's room, along with four Arizona driver's licenses with Smith's photograph and four different names and other fake identification cards. In Glasgow in September 2003, Smith altered and forged a stolen check.
Keeping the pressure on
SAN BERNARDINO - A jam of about 10 ill-clad and unkempt men and women huddled in a roach-infested garage smoking methamphetamine with glass pipes until the sun rose and poked light into the doorless garage.
Photo Gallery: Operation Phoenix sweep
A stolen red Honda Civic sat in the grass just outside. Of the five women, at least three were trading their bodies to some of the men in exchange for a fleeting chemical high, police said later based on interviews with the group. When officers swarmed on the garage at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, the bug-eyed inhabitants sat frozen on the concrete floor. Within the hour, police had unearthed drrg paraphernalia, a cache of stolen IDs and personal checks stashed in nooks all over the two-car garage. Five of the 10 would ultimately be arrested on narcotics charges and warrants.
Don't get caught in your own Web
In the past several years, employers have emphasized background checks on the cheap, sometimes learning about candidates via the Internet and its social networking sites such as MySpace. These Web searches allow employers to learn what resumes don't tell them: job candidates' personalities or what they do on the weekend.
MySpace users post personal information in photos and blogs that detail their sexual exploits, drunken weekends with friends or tame family vacations.
One expert says the popularity of online background checks such as MySpace has increased momentum in the past two months as the networking site has captured national headlines and gained popularity through word of mouth.
"Soon that will become commonplace," said Carl Greenberg, vice president of selection and retention at Florida-based Spherion Corp., a staffing firm.
Dave Goren's College Football Predictions
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Chandra independently determines Hubble constant
These six galaxy clusters are a subset of the 38 that scientists observed with Chandra, with distances ranging from 1.4 to 9.3 million light years from Earth, to help determine the Hubble constant. The Hubble constant, or the Hubble parameter, is a critically important number that sets the expansion rate of the Universe, and is derived by measuring the speeds that the clusters are moving away from us and dividing by the cluster distances. Credit: NASA/CXC/MSFC/M.Bonamente et al. .
Disorder patrol
Jeff Henry could be the poster boy for the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. Mild-mannered, trim, saccharine-sweet and bilingual thanks, he says, to a two-year Peace Corps stint in Nepal he espouses a cautionary restrictionism that could give the national anti-immigrant group the kind of PR makeover its leaders have been craving for the past few years. As the leader of one of MCDC's newest chapters, Henry compares his fledgling Colorado Springs group to an undisruptive neighborhood watch program albeit one that seeks to ferret undocumented immigrants out of the city and back over the southern U.S. border. "There is nothing racist about what we do," he says. "If I saw someone breaking into your home, would you like me to call the police? Is that racist?" Henry, a 48-year-old private business owner, requested that the Independent not print his profession, saying, "I just don't need people showing up on my doorstep, being nasty and doing that type of stuff." It's not about him, he adds, but a concern for his homeland, a place that "nobody in the world has a right to come to." The newly planted Minuteman group, which hosted its first meeting Tuesday night, has already stirred the anxieties of some immigrants and their advocates in Pueblo and Colorado Springs.
Three 'DTWC Pre-Race Shows' To Be Broadcast
Chillicothe, OH - The 26th Annual Dirt Track World Championship presented by Arizona Sport Shirts will once again feature three special pre-race radio programs broadcasting live from KC Raceway in Waverly, OH when the crown jewel dirt Late Model event is staged in October. The Dirt Track World Championship presented by Arizona Sport Shirts will be held October 19-21, 2006 at Jim Niers KC Raceway near Chillicothe, OH and is promoted by Carl Short & Dean Nardi.
We had so much positive response to it last year that we decided to do it again, stated Dean Nardi. This year it will be known as the DTWC Pre-Race Shows and will be a DTWC entity produced by Doc Lehman and aired over the popular Racetalklive. Race fans who may not make the trip until Friday or Saturday will be able to be kept up-to-date on what is going on by tuning in each day.
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