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Three charged after woman tries to sell items stolen from Anderson pawnshop owner’s wife back to shop
An Anderson woman was arrested at a pawnshop after trying to sell items stolen from the wife of the pawnshop owner the previous night. Natascha Tribble, 42, was arrested Monday after employees at B&B Pawn Shop noticed the gift cards she was trying to sell bore the...
Bradenton home health worker confessed to pawning client’s jewelry
SARASOTA -- A home health worker admitted Tuesday that she pawned her client's jewelry, according to Sarasota County Sheriff's Office.. An 88-year-old woman reported that on May 6 or 7 her sapphire and diamond ring, worth $3,000, was stolen from her home in Sarasota....
Employee: Suspects unknowingly try to pawn goods at shop where owner works
ANDERSON, S.C. —Items stolen from a pawn shop employee’s car in Anderson ended up being pawned at the very business he works for, according to an employee at B&B Sporting Goods and Pawn. A police report was filed Monday about a car break-in on Postelle Drive. The...
TAKE A LOOK AT THE FIRST KEYBOARD FOR GOOGLE GLASS IN THIS TWEE-TASTIC VIDEO
MINUUM IS BETTING THAT MOST USERS DON'T THINK VOICE COMMANDS ARE ENOUGH. Now that Google is allowing anyone with a cool $1,500 lying around to score themselves a pair of Glass, you'll probably start seeing a lot more tech geeks wearing headsets in public talking to...
Smart guns
“Smart guns” have been in the news recently. A gun store owner in Maryland abandoned plans to begin selling a German-made “smart gun” after protests–some of which included death threats. Such threats are crimes, and ought to be prosecuted, if the perpetrators can be...
How to Stop Google From Using Your Name and Face in Ads
Google ads starring you -- yes, we’re talking your real name and your real face -- could already be popping up online. That is, unless you’ve already taken action to stop the search giant from using your Google account information in its ads. If you haven’t, we’ll...
Two Pawn Shop Employees Shot During Robbery
(CBS) – A sour deal at a South Shore pawn shop leads to a shooting and robbery. Now, two men who work at Cash 4 Gold are recovering from gunshot wounds. CBS 2′s Roseanne Tellez reports. Police say the men, ages 49 and 29, were both shot in the leg and are in stable...
Fort Worth takes a new look at restrictions on payday lending
Fort Worth, the only major city in the state not to pass an ordinance restricting the operations of payday lenders, is taking a new look at the issue. Two weeks ago, City Manager Tom Higgins released a report on payday lenders for council members, noting that most of...
‘High risk’ label from feds puts gun sellers in banks’ crosshairs, hurts business
Obama plan pressures financial institutions Gun retailers say the Obama administration is trying to put them out of business with regulations and investigations that bypass Congress and choke off their lines of credit, freeze their assets and prohibit online sales....
Putting Pawn Shops to The Test: a New Ordinance in Springfield
SPRINGFIELD, Mass (WGGB) — Putting pawn shops to the test, ABC40 entered one local store as a customer to make a deal and show how new regulations are working. Springfield’s so called “pawn shop ordinance” was the center of heated debate the past few years in the...
$10,000 reward in theft of 13 assault rifles
A $10,000 reward is being offered for information about the theft of more than a dozen semiautomatic assault rifles from a freight container at a rail yard in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood earlier this month. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives...
DAVID REVIEWS SIDNEY LUMET’S THE PAWNBROKER [BLU-RAY REVIEW]
At this late stage of its development as a sub-genre of modern cinema, the “Holocaust movie” has become an increasingly dicey endeavor for both filmmakers and their audience. For roughly the past fifty years or so, stories set in a context of the Third Reich’s...
Pawn shop burglars arrested
The burglar alarm was activated at 725 Old Hickory Boulevard early Monday Morning just before 1:00 A.M. Jackson Police responded and discovered a window had been broken in the front of Convenient Pawn, which is the business at this address. An investigation was...
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