Odd / Tags / Million

ODD / NEWS Thu Nov 29, 2007 @ 8:27am neoform

Yahoo News -- A bank teller in Clearwater had a million reasons not to open an account for an Augusta, Ga., man Monday, authorities said. Alexander D. Smith, 31, was charged with disorderly conduct and two counts of forgery after he walked into the bank and tried to op.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Wed Oct 10, 2007 @ 10:03am neoform

Yahoo News -- Change for a million? That's what a man was seeking Saturday when he handed a $1 million bill to a cashier at a Pittsburgh supermarket. But when the Giant Eagle employee refused and a manager confiscated the bogus bill, the man flew into a rage, police sa.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Fri May 4, 2007 @ 3:41pm neoform

Reuters -- The Royal Canadian Mint unveiled a welcome addition to any piggy bank on Thursday -- a monster gold coin with a face value of C$1 million (455,000 pounds) that it says is the world's biggest, purest and highest denomination coin. Weighing in at 100 kil.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Thu Feb 8, 2007 @ 3:51pm mrmdc

SF Gate -- For months, the painting sat wrapped in a garage. Before that, it hung for decades in a home in Pisa, Italy. The owner, a Southern California woman, never knew the value of the painting. For her, it represented fond memories of her grandmother, and it.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Tue Oct 2, 2007 @ 8:07pm neoform

Seattle Pi -- Edith Macefield is stubborn. Man, is she stubborn. That's what her mother told her when she was a little girl back in the 1920s. It's a characteristic that has followed her all her life. Now that unrelenting stubbornness has won the 86-year-old woman a.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Sun Jun 24, 2007 @ 12:02pm neoform

FOX News -- Senators pushing a new immigration policy appealed Sunday to wavering supporters ahead of renewed debate on securing the borders and dealing with 12 million undocumented immigrants. A fragile compromise was pulled from the Senate in early June, then re.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Tue Jun 5, 2007 @ 9:25am neoform

Yahoo News -- Fancy a diamond-encrusted cellphone for $3.5 million, or a gold-plated, musical Swiss watch costing more than $2 million? Those luxuries, and thousands like them, were on display at a weekend Millionaire Fair in Shanghai, a lavish exhibition targeting.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Mon May 7, 2007 @ 8:23am neoform

Yahoo News -- Got change for a million? Canada does: the world's biggest pure gold coin at 200 pounds. Already, three buyers have shelled out for one of the 1 million Canadian dollar coins introduced last week. The Royal Canadian mint made the coins — 20 inches in.. Read More