Newly cashed out of a video poker game, Boston College basketball player Akida McLain rode with a former high school teammate, Brennon Ely, to a convenience store in Penn Hills, Pa., a suburb of Pittsburgh, and bought a Gatorade with a counterfeit $20 bill. The pair then crossed a shopping mall parking lot to a Dollar Tree store, where McLain ... (Full article: 3781 words)

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