Check Unit helps merchants reclaim bad checks faster
Merchants say a county Check Unit cuts days to weeks to recover funds from bounced checks. Since its start the unit has dispersed 742000 in restitution, with 1800 warrants and 4100 defendants among 530 victims. The program is funded by the check writers and prosecutors may pursue jail time or fines up to 500 per charge.
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Escapee Sought In Armed Robbery Case With Firearm Charge
An 18 year old white male, 6 foot 1, 162 pounds, brown hair and eyes, fled for over five hours. Cooper faces armed robbery and possession of a firearm during a violent crime. Police seek tips via Investigator Greg Savell or Crime Stoppers Midlands with rewards for anonymous calls.
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Energy policy debates focus on ethanol and funding gaps
The 2005 energy law authorized 3.8 billion for renewables but most programs lack funds or administration requests. Officials cite a 450 million outreach line with no appropriations. Bush back ethanol expansion while Congress debates funding for cellulosic projects and a 14 billion renewable fuel fund.
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Elderly man drawn into Secret Service probe over letter
In Bethlehem Pennsylvania 81 year old Dan Tilli was visited by Secret Service agents after writing a letter to the editor about Saddam Hussein's execution claiming they hanged the wrong man The agents questioned him searched his apartment and took photos but concluded he posed no threat The episode echoes a prior FBI visit last year regarding another letter urging civil war to unseat President Bush
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Allentown
Marine honors fallen local Marine Matt Dillon at ceremony
Aiken remembers Matt Dillon a Marine of the Quarter who died in Iraq after serving in the National Guard and Marines. His family and friends attend a ceremony with Neal Dillon praising the honor and announcing a scholarship account and plaque being created in Matt’s name for local youths.
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