Monopoly? Luxury tax (Pay $100): A 19-year-old Norwegian student won $20,580 and the title of tycoon at the Monopoly World Championship in Las Vegas, when a competitor landed on North Carolina Avenue and was bankrupted when he couldn’t afford the $1,600 rent.
It’s nice to see growing interest in old-fashioned board games that can take our minds off home foreclosures and other worries of the day.
Go directly to jail: An adult hall monitor at a New York high school is facing larceny charges after suspicious teenagers planted a video camera in a locker and caught the woman stealing from students.
And she would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn’t been for those dang kids.
You have won second prize in a beauty contest. Collect $10: Fox news commentator and Everett native Glenn Beck’s recent visit to his boyhood home of Mount Vernon to accept the key to the city cost between $10,000 and $18,000 in police overtime, that city’s newspaper reports.
Mount Vernon Mayor Bud Norris has asked Beck to return the key so he can open the lock on the city’s cash box to pay the bill.
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