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Archive for March 15th, 2003

No-show Jacko fined $8.9m

Posted by Kramy on March 15th, 2003

From correspondents in Los Angeles
March 14, 2003
SINGER Michael Jackson has been ordered by a US jury to pay $US5.3 million ($8.92 million) in damages for failing to show up at concerts in Sydney and Honolulu, officials said.
A jury in the California town of Santa Maria, near Jackson’s Neverland ranch, returned the verdict following a four-month […]

Dead man runs up phone bill

Posted by Kramy on March 15th, 2003

March 14, 2003
A US man’s phone bill has followed him to his grave.
A local cemetery received a phone bill last week for David Towles at his correct address - Hillside Cemetery, Evergreen Section, Auburn, Massachusetts 01501.
Towles was buried there in December 1997. He died at age 60.
Cemetery Superintendent Wayne Bloomquist says he was surprised […]