Despite your best efforts to manage the flow of your personal information or to keep it to yourself, skilled identity thieves may use a variety of methods — low- and hi-tech — to gain access to your data. Here are some of the ways imposters can get your personal information and take over your identity. (more…)

What is domestic violence?

In general when people talk about domestic violence, this includes a wide range of behaviors, from verbal abuse to physical violence. Domestic violence is when one person tries to take control over another by using acts of intimidation, threats, sexual assault, stalking, controlling money or bank accounts, and other violent behaviors. It can be dangerous when one person tries to control others this way. This is what we usually mean by domestic violence, and it frequently gets worse without help. (more…)

Street Legal

For those who love cars, customizing and racing are a way of life. Some dedicated performance enthusiasts, however, are putting their cars, their buddies and their lives on the line by street racing.

Street racing is illegal. The CHP won’t hesitate to take street racers to court. (more…)

According to national statistics, armed robbery is on the increase. By definition, armed robbery is the unlawful taking of property from someone by the use of force or the threat of violence. Theft of property should not be confused with robbery. For example, shoplifting is not considered robbery. (more…)

WASHINGTON , DC — Consumers have been a record number of complaints about online scams to the National Consumers League’s Internet Fraud Watch every year, with complaints about online auctions rising dramatically. The amount of money lost topped millions, with more losses in the online auction category alone. “Clearly, consumers need to learn how to protect themselves from crooks on the ‘Net,” said IFW Director Susan Grant. (more…)

Most offices lose supplies almost daily due to employees helping themselves - details on how to cut down on office shrinkage and how to keep company morale high. (more…)

The fundamental NRA rules for safe gun handling are:

1. Always keep the gun pointed in a safe direction.
This is the primary rule of gun safety. A safe direction means that the gun is pointed so that even if it were to go off it would not cause injury or damage. The key to this rule is to control where the muzzle or front end of the barrel is pointed at all times. Common sense dictates the safest direction, depending on different circumstances. (more…)

Most men who commit sexual offenses do not know their victim.
False. 90% of child victims know their offender, with almost half of the offenders being a family member. Of sexual assaults against people age 12 and up, approximately 80% of the victims know the offender.

Most sexual assaults are committed by someone of the same race as the victim? (more…)

could never happen to you, experts say everyone has a 40-percent chance of being in a crash involving alcohol use sometime in their life.According to a Gallup survey funded by State Farm for Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), drunken driving is our No. 1 highway safety problem. Through education, increased law enforcement and stiffer penalties, the number of alcohol-related traffic accidents can be reduced. (more…)

Holiday Safety Tips, 2004

 Trees

•  When purchasing an artificial tree, look for the label “Fire Resistant.”

•  When purchasing a live tree, check for freshness because a fresh tree is less of a fire hazard. The tree should be green, needles are hard to pull from branches and when bent between your fingers, needles do not break. The trunk butt should be sticky with resin, and when tapped on the ground, the tree should not lose many needles. (more…)