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still considered attempted suicide a crime (North and South Dakota, Washington, New Jersey, Nevada, and Oklahoma, which repealed its law in 1976).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.
Please enable Javascript to watch this video. OKLAHOMA -- New details in the case of a former Wanette teacher accused of looking at nude photos of high school girls. Charles Clay Dawson, 43, was arrested for the crime last week. Now, one of his previous students is coming forward about an inappropriate relationship she allegedly had with him 15 years ago.