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Police: Woman stole 29,500 quarters

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.

An Albuquerque woman is facing embezzlement charges after police say she stole from her former employer more than $7,000 – in quarters.

KRQE-TV in Albuquerque reports a criminal complaints says Jessica Madrid stole 29,503 quarters from an apartment complex where she worked as a secretary.

Police say the 26-year-old Madrid never deposited the quarters in laundry money on behalf of the complex and kept the coins. Albuquerque police spokesman Tanner Tixier says it took apartment complex officials around six months to realize they were being ripped off.

According to records, Madrid collected quarters from the complex laundry site each week from June 2015 until January 2016.

A police report says Madrid later was fired for an unrelated matter. It was not known if Madrid had an attorney.

Government says he’s dead, but man insists he’s very much alive

LINCOLN, Neb.

A Lincoln man says he’s not dead, despite what the Social Security Administration has said.

Chuck Zellers learned of his demise in March after his Social Security deposit was removed from his bank account while he and his wife, Alice, were in Arizona, he told the Lincoln Journal Star.

They talked to a woman at the Social Security office who checked her computer and told him, “‘Oh, by golly, you are dead,’” Zellers said.

“She told me it could be a funeral home declared you deceased; or that someone just put in a wrong keystroke or something like that,” he said.

But Zellers, 73, admitted he probably will never know how it happened. So, he’s spent the past few weeks going from agency to agency, business to business, proving with various documents that Charles Richard Zellers II, of Lincoln, Neb., is not dead yet. It was “a lot of driving and a lot of calling,” he said.

He retired from his computer job at Unisys in 2000, and since then, his pension and Social Security checks have been his main source of income. He hadn’t received either check in more than two months.

Luckily, when he cut his Arizona trip short and returned home, his local Social Security office paid him what he was owed — but only after they saw him alive. His Veteran’s Administration disability payments were recently reinstated and his credit rating also is back.

Man wins $1 million for a second time

NEW YORK

A man has beaten the odds by winning $1 million in the New York Lottery for a second time.

Lottery officials said the same Suffolk County man won $1 million in 2012.

Repeat winners are rare, but not unheard of, in New York and other places.

Associated Press