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Mark Madoff commits suicide http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2010/12/13/ac.johns.madoff.suicide.cnn New York -- Convicted Ponzi-schemer Bernard Madoff will not attend the funeral of his son, Mark, out of consideration for his daughter-in-law and grandchildren, attorney Ira Sorkin said...

Migrant workers at a farm near Simcoe, Ont., say they are owed tens of thousands of dollars after their employer ran into financial trouble and left the country without paying them. The 136 workers came to Ghesquiere Plant Farm from Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Barbados. They are...

Bernie Madoff's victims, who were collectively swindled out of more than $50 billion, effectively recouped more than $2 million on Saturday in an auction of the investment titan-turned-villain's personal items. The U.S. Marshals Service sold off nearly 500 pieces of personal property belonging...

A retired Canadian couple who won $11.3 million in the lottery in July have already given it (almost) all away. "What you've never had, you never miss," 78-year-old Violet Large explained to a local reporter. She was undergoing chemotherapy treatment for cancer when the couple realized they'd...

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/video?id=7760769 CONEY ISLAND -- They've stood in place for generations, but the end may be near. Mom and pop merchants are the heart and soul of the Coney Island boardwalk. "I used to be the youngest, now I'm the oldest," 81-year-old Paul Georgoulakos said...

Mexico City, Mexico -- Mexican federal authorities are investigating whether a Roman Catholic priest received money from a top narcotrafficker to build a chapel, a church official said Monday. The inquiry centers on whether the head of the notorious Zetas drug cartel, Heriberto Lazcano...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2010/10/26/exp.am.romans.bank.fees.cnn It should come as no surprise that even after consumer-friendly bank reform it costs more than ever to use your own money. A veritable credit card fee frenzy over the past decade meant many banks could easily offer...

Jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday in the trial of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who is charged with illegally funneling corporate money to help elect GOP candidates to the Texas legislature. The Republican was indicted in 2005 on charges he illegally sent $190,000 in...

Thoughts of time inspire socializing PHILADELPHIA, -- People prompted to think of time plan to spend time with loved ones but, with some exceptions, those primed to think of money work more, U.S. researchers say. Cassie Mogilner of the University of Pennsylvania designed an experiment...

Man gets $172 million tax bill NEW YORK, The U.S. Internal Revenue Service sent a $172 million tax bill to a man who worked as a day trader in New York for less than a year. Friends said Marcos Esparza Bofill, who has since returned to his native Spain, received a $172,101,056.48 bill for his...

Money falls from butt during strip search PANAMA CITY, Fla., Police in Florida said they recovered $45 that fell out of an arrested man's anus during a strip search at the Bay County Jail. Officers said Nicholas Ryan Harris, 19, told officers there was nothing hidden on his body following his...

Money-happiness ties depend on definition URBANA, Ill., An Illinois researcher who co-wrote a study on the link between money and happiness said the answer lies in the personal definition of "happiness." Ed Diener, a retired psychology professor at the University of Illinois who co-wrote the...

Police: Teeth a sex for money dealbreaker GAINESVILLE, Fla., (UPI) -- Police in Florida said they arrested a woman who allegedly snatched a man's money after he decided not to pay her for sex because of her teeth. Gainesville police said Dan Alford and Jennifer Elder, 25, both told officers...

Noriega money-laundering trial under way PARIS, (UPI) -- Former Panamanian strongman Gen. Manuel Noriega went on trial in Paris Monday, accused of laundering drug money in France. The 76-year-old former dictator, who spent 20 years in U.S. prisons before being extradited to France in April...

Teens find, return $7,700 in cash LINDSBORG, Kan., (UPI) -- A group of Kansas teenagers who discovered a purse containing $7,700 at the side of an interstate said turning the money in was the right thing to do. The eight teenagers, all recent graduates of Smoky Valley High School in...

Money seized from mayor's prison account DETROIT, (UPI) -- Almost $350 has been seized from former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's prison commissary account for restitution to the city, officials say. Russell Marlan, a spokesman for the Michigan Department of Corrections, said the money was...

Clancy was brooding over his beer at the barroom and said to his friend, “I tell you, Mulligan, I don’t know what I’m going to do about my wife.” “What is it now?” “The same old thing—money. She’s always asking for money! Only last Thursday, she wanted ten dollars! Yesterday she was around...

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This is precious..... A man and woman had been married for more than 60 years. They had shared everything. They had talked about everything. They had kept no secrets from each other except that the little old woman had a shoe box in the top of her closet that she had cautioned her husband never...

Geithner won't say if more bailout money needed By Glenn Somerville WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Sunday the government will have about $135 billion left after banks give back some bailout money and declined to say whether he will ask Congress for...