President Barack Obama is asking bank executives to support his efforts to tighten the financial industry, while bankers are prepared to tell the president he should stop oversimplifying their concerns if he wants good-faith collaboration.
An hourlong meeting between the president and the nation's top financial firms was shaping up to be a tense White House encounter on Monday, not least because of Obama's description of bankers on the eve of the talks as "fat cats."
Born in 1937, Albert L. Peter had never been charged with a single crime, until he stole $980 in quarters from Wildwood parking meters that he was supposed to be fixing.
Peter, 72, was sentenced to three years' probation and 90 days in jail Friday for the theft.
He was arrested in July after being seen placing two bank bags in his car. Peter had been working an $11-per-hour job as a seasonal city employee fixing broken meters at the time.
Authorities say they removed an explosive device from around a man's neck after a robbery attempt in Orange County.
The Orange County Sheriff's Office reports that someone tried robbing a check-cashing store Sunday morning. The suspect fled, but a second man was left behind with the device around his neck.
Deputies brought the man outside the store, removed the device and disabled it.
It was not clear whether the man was a customer or another suspect
The owner of a brothel more than two hours' drive from Las Vegas said she hopes to hire Nevada's first legal male prostitutes within a month, now that state health officials have approved a method to test men for infectious diseases.
The health board approved a regulation to allow urethral testing for men — a crucial rule change by the state agency with ultimate power over whether prostitutes can or can't work
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