What is a 'Variable Interest Rate'. A variable interest rate is an interest rate on a loan or security that fluctuates over time, because it is based on an underlying benchmark interest rate or index that changes periodically.
Is suicide a crime? Historically, various states listed the act as a felony, but all were reluctant to enforce it. By 1963, six states still considered attempted suicide a crime (North and South Dakota, Washington, New Jersey, Nevada, and Oklahoma, which repealed its law in 1976). By the early 1990s only two U.S. states still listed suicide as a crime, and these have since removed that classification. In some U.S. states, suicide is still considered an unwritten common law crime as stated in Blackstone's Commentaries.
Tulsa, OK -- The parents of a teen accused in an abortion clinic bombing were sentenced to probation and fines on July 30 for possessing an unregistered destructive device. U.S. District Judge Sven Erik Holmes put Greg and Diane Alleva of Bixby on probation for five years and ordered them to pay fines of $2,000 each.