91.   Nicholas Karpouzis wiped tears from his eyes during his arraignment Thursday on eight counts of fraud and passing bad checks.

92.   On the same day wide receiver Andre Rison was charged in Missouri with passing bad checks, he made his exhibition debut with the Oakland Raiders.

93.   Other customers were repaying loans with bad checks without questions being asked.

94.   Prosecutors accused two brothers who own a group of convenience stores of floating millions of dollars in bad checks.

95.   Rison first surrendered to Jackson County, Mo., authorities Friday on four charges of writing bad checks.

96.   She volunteered that she would crack down on bad checks.

97.   The charges include writing a bad check, misrepresentation and using a stolen check.

98.   The convictions ranged from murder and rape to drunken driving and passing bad checks.

99.   The couple were being held Friday in New York on a bad check warrant from Utah as police searched for their missing landlady in Manhattan.

100.   The deals are almost always in cash to avoid bad checks and Verma, like most dealers, was surrounded by burly bodyguards with fierce mustaches and guns.