The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on July 1 that a retailer can challenge the fees the Federal Reserve System allows banks to charge for processing debit card transactions, despite not filing the challenge before the usual six-year cutoff. Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote the majority opinion in the case known as Corner Post Inc. v. […]
The man who killed 18 people in a mass shooting in Maine in 2023 suffered from a serious brain injury, doctors said on March 6. An examination of Robert Card’s brain revealed “evidence of traumatic brain injury,” Dr. Ann McKee, director of the Boston University Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, said in a statement. Mr. Card, […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska—A South African man who tortured an Alaska Native woman and narrated as he recorded a video of her dying was found guilty of first-degree murder on Thursday for killing her and another Native woman. The Anchorage jury returned a unanimous verdict against Brian Steven Smith after deliberating for less than two hours. Mr. […]
New York—Bad news if you’re mooching off of someone else’s Costco membership: The retail giant is cracking down. When you enter Costco, you need to show your membership card to an employee to shop. Costco membership cards are non-transferable, but the company allows members to give a second household card to one other person in […]
GARY, Ind.—A debit card left behind at the scene of a fatal shooting helped police in Gary track down and arrest a man suspected of killing a fellow customer at a grocery store. The violence Monday evening was caught on the store’s surveillance camera, in which the two men in their 40s get into a […]
While it’s estimated that over $280 billion in COVID-19 relief funding was stolen by fraudsters, a new report shows that many Americans used their stimulus checks to pay off their credit card debt. Many people likely used their pandemic stimulus payments to pay down their credit card balances, a new report from the U.S. Government […]
NEW YORK—An 82-year-old Colorado man was charged Wednesday with selling and trading fake Michael Jordan basketball cards in a scheme that prosecutors said resulted in him making more than $800,000 over four years. Mayo Gilbert McNeil was arrested in Denver, where he lives, after a complaint was unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn charging him […]
An international standards body has approved the creation of a merchant category code for gun retailers to identify credit card sales of guns and ammunition. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO)—an independent non-governmental body based in Geneva, Switzerland that creates standards across various industries, including the financial services industry—has approved the new merchant category code for gun and […]
The father of the 21-year-old man charged in the slayings of seven people during a Fourth of July parade in Illinois sponsored his son’s state firearm identification card about two years ago. Robert E. Crimo III, the suspect, applied for a state Firearm Owners Identification (FOID) card—which is issued by the Illinois State Police—in December 2019 […]
SCARBOROUGH, Maine—A rare football card featuring Tom Brady in the year he won his first Super Bowl sold for $118,000 at auction in Maine. The 2002 Topps Finest X-Fractor card was one of only 20 featuring the NFL quarterback who’d won his first Super Bowl on Feb. 3, 2002. Before retiring, he won a total […]
An autographed Serena Williams rookie card printed in 2003 has become the most expensive women’s sports card after fetching $44,280 at auction last weekend, New Jersey-based Goldin Auctions said. The previous record was $34,440 for a rookie card of former U.S. soccer player Mia Hamm sold in June. ESPN reported the Williams card was bought […]
The winner of a scratch-off lottery was arrested for fraud when she went to collect her winnings in Canada. The unnamed 33-year-old woman had bought a ticket to Canada’s Scratch’M Win with a credit card she had stolen, according to local reports. When she went to the Atlantic Lottery’s office in Newfoundland to collect her […]
A Kentucky high school is offering a so-called “adulting day” that teaches students how to pay bills, pay off credit cards, cook, and change a flat tire. Seniors at Bullitt Central High School in Shepherdsville got one-on-one lessons from people in the community on things like dorm-room cooking, credit cards, and financing, and other “adult” tasks, […]
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