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Ralph Remakel received a Citibank letter postmarked Feb. 16 that notified him of a recent Citibank error. It turns out he wasn’t the only one.
In late January, Citibank mailed year-end tax statements to 600,000 Citi customers via the U.S. Postal Service that included the customers’ Social Security numbers … on the outside of the envelope.
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Giant rocks came tumbling down a snowy Colorado mountainside early Monday, punching gaping holes in the interstate below, the Colorado Department of Transportation said.
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A man apparently angry over a poor performance evaluation entered an Ohio State University maintenance building early Tuesday and opened fire, killing a manager before turning the gun on himself, police said.
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The Department of Transportation slapped US Airways with a $40,000 civil penalty Monday for violating price advertising rules.
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A shooting at a 15-story office building in north Dallas on Monday morning left three people injured. The incident happened just before 11:00 a.m. at the Four Forest Plaza building, located in the 12000 block of Merit Drive, just north of Forest Lane, near Medical City of Dallas.
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Lil’ Wayne was sentenced Monday to a year in prison.
The rapper, whose legal name is Dwayne Carter, pleaded guilty in October to felony gun charges as part of a deal with prosecutors.
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President Obama on Monday tore into private health insurers for recent rate hikes, taking a more aggressive rhetorical turn as he pushes for final congressional passage of his top domestic priority.
Obama repeated his assertion that the plan under consideration includes the best Democratic and Republican ideas. The time for debate has ended, he argued.
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A pre-dawn earthquake collapsed homes and killed more than 50 people in a mountainous region of southeastern Turkey Monday, government officials said.
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Before he was a convicted serial killer, Rodney Alcala was a winning bachelor on “The Dating Game.”
“Oh yeah, I remember it quite clearly,” said Jed Mills, the game-show contestant who sat next to Alcala in 1978. “He was creepy. Definitely creepy.”
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The AFL-CIO filed a brief in support of lifting restrictions on corporate and union spending on independent expenditures. On January 21, the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated spending limits on independent expenditures on a 5-4 vote—a controversial ruling that wiped out three precedents on campaign spending controls. The court’s rightist majority also took the position that campaign spending is a form of free speech and that corporations are entitled to the same unlimited rights as people.
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