For four decades, the 1-ton safe sat in the back of a family shoe store, and as the years rolled past, its secrets were seemingly forgotten. When the family closed up shop, renting the building to a shoe repairman, the safe stayed put. No one remembered the combination. No one knew what to do with it.
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Now, everyone is rushing to stake a claim.
Dumped in a vacant lot in neighboring Lawrence last November as an obsolete, oversize nuisance, the old-fashioned vault was discovered to hold a small fortune - $178,496 in crisp currency. The money was packed in blue bank envelopes, wrapped in old Daher's Shoes shopping bags and a white Nike T-shirt, and tucked in a locked compartment.
The surprise discovery is the target of an intra-family court battle involving four competing parties, though none can explain why someone would stash so much money away and apparently not tell anyone.
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Saturday, June 13, 2009
Saudi princess hides from a £15 million shopping bill
One of the most senior members of Saudi Arabia's royal family, Princess Maha al-Sudairi, is claiming diplomatic immunity in France after running up unpaid shopping bills of more than £15 million including £60,000 on designer lingerie.She has ignored her furious debtors and locked herself in her £2,500-a-night suite at the George V Hotel in Paris.
When a royal aide was approached about settling the underwear bill he replied: "I'm afraid we can't go around settling bills for the Princess's undergarments."
Princess Maha, whose husband, Prince Nayef, is interior minister and second-in-line to the Saudi throne, is said to have spent millions on designer clothes, jewels and other luxury products in the French capital over the past year. Her weekly dry cleaning bill alone was said to be £30,000.
Every time the Princess and her entourage visited a shop a representative would offer staff an embossed document stating "Payment to Follow".
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Update:
Saudi pays up in Paris
Saudi pays up in Paris
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Man finds $250,000 in street
A man from the U.S.A. found a quarter of a million dollars stuffed into carrier bags in the street - and handed it in.David Jenks found the money - the equivalent of more than £150,000 - after popping out of his antiques shop one evening in Syracuse, New York state.
"I was walking out to my car for a clean shirt when I saw bags of trash on the side of the road," he said.
When Mr Jenks went to move the bags, he realized they were filled with banknotes.
The bags are believed to have come from a Brinks armored security vehicle.
Brinks managers are trying to determine how the money ended up on the side of the road, police said.
Mr Jenks added: "It's the most amount of money I've ever seen in my life. I'm so glad I was here tonight. I was happy to return the money."
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Friday, June 12, 2009
Super Sensitive
The beaming smile on Molly Harrad's face marks her out as a happy and fun-loving 10-year-old.
That she is able to keep smiling quite so readily is testament to the schoolgirl's determination.
For Molly is allergic to modern life.
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She is not just allergic to an alarming array of food products, but to a host of man-made materials - meaning that something as simple as walking across carpet can trigger painful blistering.
While what she eats can trigger an agonizing reaction internally, what she touches can trigger a similar response on the outside.
Even picking up a telephone, handling coins or holding a pen can make her skin flare up.
So severe are her allergies that Molly has to wear cotton gloves all the time, even in bed, to minimize the rick of coming into contact with any potentially harmful surfaces.
She has given up wearing shoes, because the rubber in the soles of ordinary shoes - even through leather insoles - makes her feet blister.
Her catalogue of allergies has bewildered doctors, who believe that had she been born a century ago she would not have the same array of problems.
It was just days after Molly's birth that parents Louise Robson and Derek Harrad realized their little girl was unwell.
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That she is able to keep smiling quite so readily is testament to the schoolgirl's determination.
For Molly is allergic to modern life.
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She is not just allergic to an alarming array of food products, but to a host of man-made materials - meaning that something as simple as walking across carpet can trigger painful blistering.While what she eats can trigger an agonizing reaction internally, what she touches can trigger a similar response on the outside.
Even picking up a telephone, handling coins or holding a pen can make her skin flare up.
So severe are her allergies that Molly has to wear cotton gloves all the time, even in bed, to minimize the rick of coming into contact with any potentially harmful surfaces.
She has given up wearing shoes, because the rubber in the soles of ordinary shoes - even through leather insoles - makes her feet blister.
Her catalogue of allergies has bewildered doctors, who believe that had she been born a century ago she would not have the same array of problems.
It was just days after Molly's birth that parents Louise Robson and Derek Harrad realized their little girl was unwell.
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.Job-seekers try new tactics to get employers' eye
Job-seekers are using unusual gimmicks to grab the attention of potential employers, such as in one case sending a shoe along with a resume to get a "foot in the door," said a survey released on Wednesday.
Almost a fifth of hiring managers report seeing more unconventional tactics this year, compared with 12 percent who said so last year.
Faced with the highest unemployment in 25 years, candidates are trying a variety of tricks, including:
* handing out resumes at stop lights
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* washing cars in a company parking lot
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* staging a sit-in in a company lobby to demand a meeting with a director
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* sending a cake designed as a business card with the candidate's picture
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* handing out personalized coffee cups
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* going to the same barber as the company chairman to have the barber speak on his behalf.
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Almost a fifth of hiring managers report seeing more unconventional tactics this year, compared with 12 percent who said so last year.
Faced with the highest unemployment in 25 years, candidates are trying a variety of tricks, including:
* handing out resumes at stop lights
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* washing cars in a company parking lot
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* staging a sit-in in a company lobby to demand a meeting with a director
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* sending a cake designed as a business card with the candidate's picture
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* handing out personalized coffee cups
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* going to the same barber as the company chairman to have the barber speak on his behalf.
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End of an Era as Analog TV Broadcasts Sign Off
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Starting this morning and going into the night, TV stations across the U.S. planned to cut their analog signals Friday, ending a six-decade era for the technology and likely stranding more than 1 million unprepared homes without TV service.
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