Rent-A-Center Incorporated

'Super PACs' report donors for 2011

2012-01-31 23:28:00

The new role that the super-rich play in electoral politics began to emerge with greater clarity Tuesday as recently formed "super PACs" publicly reported their donors and expenses for 2011. Restore Our Future, the super PAC backing Mitt Romney's...

The Poor Have More Things Today -- Including Wild Income Swings

2004-12-12 00:00:00

"The poor are not like everyone else," social critic Michael Harrington wrote in the 1962 bestseller "The Other America," which helped shape President Johnson's War on Poverty. "They are a different kind of people," he declared. "They think and feel...

Designer clothes at resale prices

2013-05-19 11:54:03

Flagstaff has thrift stores, department stores, and a handful of higher-end clothing stores like Eddie Bauer or P.J. Chilcottage. A new store aims to merge some of these categories, re-selling used designer clothing at half or one-third the price of...

Scott Walker's rent-to-own budget provision brings strong reaction

2013-04-27 00:00:00

Rent-to-own stores would be able to sell customers high-cost financing plans for televisions, appliances and other goods without disclosing their interest rates, under a provision in Gov. Scott Walker's proposed state budget. In addition to exempting...

Multiple Reports Of Looting; 15 Arrested In Far Rockaway

2012-10-31 16:08:00

Fifteen people have been arrested after looting broke out in Coney Island and along the Far Rockaway peninsula, the Associated Press reported. Suspects broke windows and damaged metal gates while breaking into several clothing stores, a Radio Shack and a...

Police Blotter from Sept. 14, 15 and 16, 2012

2012-09-18 06:58:00

Editor’s note: Taken from the Danville 911 records, the Police Blotter represents a history of the initial calls and the information used by the dispatcher to send officers to investigate complaints. It is not necessarily an indication of what the...

Salem man charged with trying to steal money from Rent-A-Center in Roanoke

2012-06-12 07:41:00

A Salem man has been arrested for a a day-time robbery at a Rent-A-Center in Roanoke. 39-year-old Daniel Scott Campbell has been charged with two counts of robbery. According to the Roanoke Police Department, Campbell went into the store, took money,...

Woman leased computer equipment, pawned it, deputies say

2012-03-18 05:17:00

Theresa Kimberly Cunningham allegedly leased a Toshiba Tablet and a Sony Desktop computer worth $2800 from a Rent-A-Center — then went directly to a pawnshop and sold the e-gadgets for $300, reports WTSP News-10 in Tampa Bay. That got the 32-year-...

Iowa man gets 205 years in robberies, sex assaults

2012-02-23 12:29:00

An Iowa man has been sentenced to 205 years in prison for sexually assaulting three women in two robberies in the Jeffery Manor and Morgan Park neighborhoods, according to prosecutors and court records. Larry Price, 31, was sentenced Wednesday by Cook...

The day ahead in business

2012-01-30 03:30:00

Kids get their own New Year's Eve party at West End School

2011-12-31 17:49:00

Free pizza. Video games on a 60-inch television. It was a kid's New Year's Eve dream come true. Organizers of the Children's New Year's Eve Party at the former West End School on West Washington Street in Hagerstown said they hoped at least 25 children...

Aaron's, Rent-A-Center make deal in Somerset

2011-10-07 14:49:00

Aaron’s in Somerset closed more than a month ago after four years at its North Center Avenue location. The store’s accounts were sold to Rent-A-Center in Somerset. Aaron’s seven employees transferred to Rent-A-Center as well, according...

7. Hulk Hogan As if those Rent-A-Center commercials weren't enough, Hulk Hogan's sex tape unleashed someone named "Bubba The Love Sponge" on an unassuming populace. And made us use the words "Hulk Hogan" and "sex tape" in the same sentence.

2012-12-18 14:01:00

These two athletes campaigned in commercials in 2010 for Rent-A-Center.

2012-09-18 09:33:00

Allegedly leased a Toshiba Tablet and a Sony Desktop computer worth $2800 from a Rent-A-Center � then went directly to a pawnshop and sold the e-gadgets for $300. Read More

2012-03-18 00:00:00