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		<title>Sandy Hook massacre victims’ death certificates released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The death certificates of the 28 victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre were made available to the public after a piece of legislation limiting access to the documentation failed to pass the state legislature. The certificates indicate that most victims died from “multiple gunshot wounds.”

One pupil, however, was killed with a single shot to the head, while another was killed with a single shot to the neck, according to the death certificates. While the 26 victims at the Sandy H ....]]></description>
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		<title>Three Greek men charged with swindling $6.64 million with fake invoices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three men from northern Greece are facing fraud charges for allegedly stealing €4.983 million ($6.64 million) with bogus invoices. The supposed scam lasted for over a decade, and involved the alleged fraudsters impersonating dozens of farmers to claim payments for agricultural products that had never been produced.

The three men are a 47-year old rural cooperative administrator, a 58-year old accountant and another 36-year old man, whose house was used as storage space for the reams of phony  ....]]></description>
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		<title>Swiss-based insurance provider to open representative office in Myanmar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Swiss-based insurance provider ACE Group is planning to open a representative office in Yangon, the capital of Myanmar, by the end of the year. The company has already received approval from Myanmar’s Directorate of Investment and Company Administration. 
“According to our experience, we expect that we can help develop Myanmar’s insurance market and business,” ACE chairman and CEO Evan Greenberg was quoted by Eleven Myanmar as saying. “The Myanmar market is attracted to foreign investors.”
ACE ....]]></description>
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		<title>Tennessee man arrested for allegedly faking marriage certificate to visit jailed woman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A man from the Tennessee city of Elizabethton was arrested for faking a marriage certificate to gain access to a woman jailed in the Johnson City Detention Facility, according to the police. 

Robert S. Hicks was charged with criminal simulation and jailed at the Washington County Detention Center on $10,000 bond. He appeared in court on May 22. 

Hicks was arrested after an internal investigation into an incident reported May 14, local newspaper Johnson City Press reports. Police say he pro ....]]></description>
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		<title>Man with 201 driver’s license suspensions arrested in New York</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A man whose driver’s license had been suspended 201 times was arrested after police stopped him for driving with a defective brake light. Authorities then went on to check his DMV record and found out that he had been driving illegally. 

Marion Williams, 59, was stopped on Park Avenue in New York City Monday night. Williams, a resident of the hamlet of Roosevelt on Long Island, was taken into custody, while his car was impounded, NBC New York reports.

The man was charged with operating a v ....]]></description>
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		<title>Australian businesses defrauded of $20,000 with fake invoices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At least three Australian businesses lost AUS$20,000 (US$20,000) after scammers intercepted their e-mails and changed their bank account information. Unsuspecting businesses paid on the invoices they received without realizing that the funds were not going to their regular suppliers, but were instead being transferred to the fraudsters. 

All three businesses are based in the state of Western Australia. The local Consumer Protection agency issued an urgent warning on the matter last week. 

 ....]]></description>
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		<title>Vital information from 2,000 California birth certificates “compromised” – state health officer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A microfiche reel containing the copies of 2,000 birth certificates from nine counties in California was found in an unsecure location, prompting fears that the information obtained could have been used by identity thieves and other criminals. The microfiche also contained addresses, Social Security numbers and some medical information. 

All of the copies present on the microfiche were of birth certificates issued between May and September 1974. 

“It only affects you if you were born durin ....]]></description>
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		<title>New Jersey man charged with stealing $122,000 from elderly woman by abusing power of attorney</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A man from the township of Teaneck, New Jersey has been charged with misusing his power of attorney to steal $122,000 from an elderly family friend. 

Patrick A. Reynolds was charged with theft by failure to make required disposition, misapplication of entrusted property and neglect of the elderly last week. He was incarcerated at the Bergen County jail in Hackensack, as he did not pay the $125,000 bail, local newspaper The Record reports. 

Reynolds obtained power of attorney over the finan ....]]></description>
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		<title>Best Buy sells European joint venture stake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Consumer electronics giant Best Buy announced its exit from the European market Tuesday, causing the prices of its shares to go up by 7.6 percent. Best Buy is selling its 50 percent stake in a $5.5 billion joint venture with UK-based Warehouse Mobile that operated some 2,400 small stores in eight European countries. 

“We concluded that the timing and economics were right to enter into this agreement,” Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly stated, as quoted by The St. Paul Pioneer Press. Joly added that se ....]]></description>
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		<title>Former California mortician defrauded life insurance companies with fake death certificate, phony funerals, bogus invoices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A former mortician from Long Beach, California was sentenced to 18 months in prison for bilking life insurance companies in an elaborate scheme that included forging a death certificate, invoices for funeral expenses and even filling a casket with a mannequin and cow bones to simulate the weight of a human body. 

 Jean Crump, the mastermind of the scheme, was sentenced to 18 months in prison after being convicted on seven counts of fraud and mail fraud. US District Judge William D. Keller als ....]]></description>
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		<title>Satellite TV provider sues Maine pub owner for broadcasting without commercial license</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Satellite television provider DirecTV is suing a pub owner in the town of Boothbay Harbor in Maine for “willfully” broadcasting its programming to the public without a commercial license. The pub owner maintains that the company knew what he was doing and did not warn him. 

Korey Lewis, owner of Pier One Pub, also known as Pier One Pizza, said he became a client of DirecTV ten years ago. Company technicians installed equipment on several TVs in his pub and repeatedly came back for repair work ....]]></description>
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		<title>Birth certificate error makes British security officer oldest person in the world</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A single-digit blunder on the birth certificate of a British security officer has officially made him the world’s oldest person, at 154. The man now intends to file a claim for the 90-years worth of pensions he believes the government owes him. 

The birth certificate of Chris King, a security officer from the city of Kingston-upon-Hull in northeast England, states that he was born in 1858. In reality, King was born in 1958 and is 54 years old.

King was adopted when he was very young, which ....]]></description>
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		<title>Missouri Senate strips DMV of funds necessary to issue driver licenses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Senate of Missouri passed a budget bill that would eliminate the entire $3.5 million allotment for the Motor Vehicle and Driver’s License Division. While the proposal is intended to pressure licensing officials to stop a controversial procedure that has been censured by many lawmakers, its passage would halt the issuance of driver’s licenses.

Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Kurt Schaeffer, a Republican, acknowledged the fact that the budget proposal would deprive the Motor Vehicl ....]]></description>
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		<title>Alabama bill to stiffen penalties for power of attorney abuse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The House of Representatives of Alabama is considering a bill that would increase penalties for financially abusing senior citizens by exploiting one’s power of attorney, as well as by other means. The bill has already been approved by the state’s Senate and is poised to pass the House. 

The bill will improve the definition of financial exploitation and other senior-citizen related crimes, and will make the penalties for abusing and exploiting senior citizens harsher, State Senator Cam Ward n ....]]></description>
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		<title>Defense contractors plead guilty to invoice fraud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two brothers who headed a defense contracting firm have pled guilty to charges of fraud and conspiracy in a case that involved the contractors sending invoices for inappropriate expenses, such home improvements, to the federal government, and forging at least one invoice for work that had never been performed. The former contractors have agreed to pay $4.1 million in settlement fees, but still face up to 15 years in prison. 

William Kuchera, 58, and Ronald Kuchera, 51, each pled guilty last w ....]]></description>
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		<title>UK woman takes deceased father’s ashes to bank after it refuses to accept his death certificate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A British woman from the Greater Manchester area took the urn containing her deceased father’s ashes to a branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in a desperate move to make the bank close her father’s account and cancel his debt. Siobhan Peers had previously filed a copy of his death certificate and even presented the original certificate to the bank, but continued to receive letters stating that her father owed the bank for an unauthorized overdraft. Her latest action has apparently proven  ....]]></description>
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		<title>Almost 5,000 birth certificates overdue in Canadian province due to paper supply issues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The production of almost 5,000 birth certificates in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan was postponed after the sole supplier of paper for the documents said it was experiencing difficulties in delivering its stock. The Information Services Corporation (ISC), which is responsible for issuing vital records, says its limited stock of birth certificate paper has forced it to prioritize the production of birth certificates for those who need them urgently. 

The problem has been aggravated by t ....]]></description>
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		<title>Taiwan to open representative offices in China</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Taiwan is set to open de-facto consulates in the People’s Republic of China and allow Beijing to do the same on its soil, according to a bill that is all but certain to receive approval in the country’s parliament. The gesture comes as the latest in a series of amiable moves between the two republics that had been on the brink of war with each other for decades. 
The bill, which was introduced in the Legislative Yuan, Taiwan’s parliament, last week, follows a conceptual agreement last year by n ....]]></description>
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		<title>New Kenyan president promises to streamline business licensing process</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Businesses will have an easier time obtaining a business license in Kenya, the country’s new president Uhuru Kenyatta said during his inaugural address. Simplifying the business registration process is just one aspect of Kenyatta’s bold plan to streamline Kenya’s notoriously complicated bureaucracy 

Businesses will now be able to apply for and obtain a license at the same location. This one-stop business license solution should reduce the time needed to get a license, and should encourage all ....]]></description>
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		<title>Man with power of attorney over partner refused visitation rights, arrested at Missouri hospital</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Missouri man holding Power of Attorney rights over the healthcare decision of his civil partner was forced out of the hospital and arrested after he refused to leave his partner. The hospital has now released a statement, in which it stressed that the man’s behavior, not his sexual orientation, was the cause of his arrest. 

Roger Gorley went to see his partner Allen at Research Medical City in Kansas City on Tuesday, Fox News 4 reports. When he arrived, one of Allen’s relatives asked him to ....]]></description>
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