A prominent GOP donor who admitted illegally funneling donations to President Bush's re-election campaign may have also funneled money into Gov. Bob Taft's campaign, according to a prosecutor's report.

NEW YORK -- On the very day former coin dealer Tom Noe appears in a Lucas County courtroom asking that some of 53 counts in his indictment be tossed out, The New Yorker magazine writes about Noe in an article called "Holy Toledo."

TOLEDO (AP) -- Lawyers for Tom Noe, the former rare-coin dealer at the center of the state's investment scandal, asked a judge on Thursday to throw out evidence seized during a raid of his coin business.

When was the last time you actually bent down and picked up that penny you dropped? The U.S. penny is on its way to extinction so it’s time to bid farewell to the basic coin and share with you an inflationary “penny for your thoughts”.

The coins will be on view Aug. 16-19 at the American Numismatic Association's World's Fair of Money convention in Denver.

The double eagles have been secured at U.S. Bullion Depository at Fort Knox, Ky., since the Mint announced their existence in August 2005. Mint officials have said that the coins were so rare that their value could not be calculated.

Double eagles were first minted in 1850 with a face value of $20. The 445,500 coins from 1933, designed by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, were never circulated and the Mint's inventory was melted into gold bars in 1937 after the country went off the gold standard.

A handful are believed to have escaped the melting pot, however, including two that are at the Smithsonian Institution.

The Mint has said that the 10 coins going on display in Denver had been taken from the Philadelphia Mint "in an unlawful manner" in the mid-1930s.

Joan Langbord found the coins among the possessions of her deceased father, longtime Philadelphia jeweler Israel Switt. Her attorney, Barry H. Berke, has previously said the Mint improperly seized the coins when his client turned them over to the Mint to have them authenticated.

A statement dated July 10 on his law firm's Web site states that Berke "continues to work to have the coins returned to the Langbord family." Berke did not immediately return a phone message from The Associated Press on Thursday.

In 2002, a 1933 double eagle was auctioned for $7.5 million, the highest price ever paid for a coin. It surfaced when a coin dealer tried selling it to undercover Secret Service agents.

After a legal battle, the dealer was permitted to sell the coin at auction on the condition he split the proceeds with the Mint. Other double eagles seized in the past were melted down.

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The kiwi design on the 20c coin is being discontinued, and the tuatara 5c is disappearing altogether. In fact, soon we will have no native plants or animals on our silver coins!

Hector Hernandez, DOB/110969 was arrested for violating a court order at 724 4th st and on a warrant out of CCSO. Subject was transported to the county jail.

The Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation's top internal auditor believes the agency's administration kept him from fully examining the books of its $50 million rare-coin venture with Tom Noe because of the GOP fund-raiser's political connections, the auditor testified in a sworn deposition filed yesterday.

LEE, Mass.--July 28, 2006--To help Ford and Lincoln-Mercury dealers comply with sending customers the results of the Form 99P inspection reports, @utoRevenue(TM) announced today that the company is now offering a new service that automatically sends the inspection results via email to the dealers' customers.