HURRICANE, Utah -- For nearly two years now, one question has nagged at Utah private investigator Sam Brower: Where’s Warren?
Brower, 53, has crisscrossed the country looking for Warren Jeffs, the 50-year-old leader of the polygamy-practicing Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Brower works for attorneys who represent a group of disenfranchised young men, known as the «Lost Boys,» who claim they were tossed out of the sect or abused by Jeffs.
«I’ve been all over the country -- Canada, Colorado, Texas, Arizona, Florida,» Brower said. «I’ve been everywhere.»
Jeffs was arrested last week during a traffic stop by the Nevada Highway Patrol on federal warrants for evading prosecution.
Jeffs had been on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list since May and was sought by Utah and Arizona on felony charges related to arranging marriages between teenage girls and much older men.
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„Class members who took the time and effort to file claim forms will get $2 phone cards while the attorneys will get $5 million.“
Paul Kamenar, Washington Legal Foundation
A conservative legal foundation has objected to a class-action settlement with Sprint Nextel Corp. that calls for the plaintiffs’ attorneys to get $5 million while their clients get noncash benefits.
Questioning the benefit of the settlement to class members, the Washington Legal Foundation has asked a Wyandotte County judge to defer approval of the legal fees until they can be properly evaluated.
Judge Daniel Duncan is scheduled to hold a hearing Tuesday on whether the settlement is fair, adequate and reasonable. The case concerns regulatory fees that were tacked on to wireless customers’ phone bills.
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With the advent of cell phones, Internet phoning and new technologies such as Skype, you can save a lot of money on telephone calls. Consumer Reports offers suggestions on how to save:
• Internet phoning. You need something called Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), which relays phone calls via a high-speed Internet connection. Have a basic land line as a backup.
• Go totally mobile. You could get rid of the land line. Get a cell phone plan that offers you enough national anytime minutes.
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Everwhere you go today it seems that everyone has a cell phone. It’s easy to understand when you think about it. We feel safer when we travel on the highways, or need to check on the kids, or get in touch with someone immediately. While many people use a cell phone to just gab, others only need one for an emergency, or on a rare basis. They don’t want to pay a high monthly fee and have a
long-term contract. They have no need for it. So, the Trac Phone is the solution to their problem. It’s the hottest phone to come out as of late in the cell phone industry. Here are 5 good reasons to own a Trac Phone if you don’t already have one.
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PORT ST. LUCIE — Johnathen Sardone, 21, of Port St. Lucie was arrested Wednesday in connection with last week’s ATM fraud at First Peoples Bank on Port St. Lucie Boulevard in which a man used European calling cards to fraudulently withdraw about $20,000 over three days.
Investigators said last week that the culprit likely used a skimming device to steal information from London credit cards and then used software to transfer the information to the magnetic strips on the phone cards.
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