Hector Duarte Jr. - All Headline News Staff ReporterWinter Haven, Florida (AHN)- Bradley Neil Slosberg, 49, has been charged with forging applications in a ploy to receive department store credit cards.

According to a Reuters report, people who solicit prostitutes in Oakland, California, could find their faces plastered on billboards under a new shaming program - civil rights groups call the program bad public policy. The city started putting up billboards on Wednesday showing men arrested for soliciting sex. Other signs invite prostitutes to quit by calling a help line.

Residents of Dork Street feel unpopular. "I had a resume kicked back because someone thought I was kidding," said Dork Street homeowner, Mario Saucedo. He has lived on the suburban street about a dozen miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles for eight years. Ester Avetisian, who moved there 18 years ago, said she might have thought twice if there had been a sign in those days marking the road tucked into what is still a semi-rural section of town where people keep goats and chickens in their back yards. "I didn't know the name until my husband and I were signing mortgage papers. I was pretty shocked when I found out. " Still, most residents have learned how to deal with the jokes. "It's pretty funny," said Clyde Parra, who has lived on Dork Street for eight years. "When I go to cash a check at the store, people ask me if I'm a dork. " Officials say there is no record at City Hall explaining how the street got its odd name, but residents believe it was named after someone called Dork. It first appeared on a Los Angeles County tract map in 1936. "It's obviously historic, and it seems like streets named for last names are the norm in that area," city spokesman Bob Spencer said.

At least they don't have to run along side a limo to do their jobs. The U. S. Secret Service is being charged with the duty of watching over the well being of a mother duck and her clutch of nine eggs located in a nest near the entrance to the Treasury Department. Various names are being suggested for the brown mallard, including "Duck Chaney" and "Quacks Reform". Metal rails are set up to guard the fowl and her nest from curious on-lookers and tourists who gather daily as they make their way to the White House. Officials including Treasury Secretary John Snow often stop by to check on the bird. The duck will be relocated near water after her eggs hatch, which is expected in about three weeks. Treasury Department spokesman Rob Nichols says "Foreign leaders, members of Congress, everybody who visits Treasury has to pass by the duck".

Some people take suggestions for baby names, why not your own? 31-year old Matthew Jean Rouse's middle name came from his late grandfather, a man he didn't really get along with. So he is auctioning off his naming rights on E-bay! Rouse is taking bids on the right to choose his new middle name, whatever it might be. The top offer as of early Monday is $2,175, with the "Buy It Now" price at $8,000. Of course, there is the distinct possibility he could get a pretty usual and possibly distasteful name. His wife Corinna says, "If he wants to walk around with 'Fool' as his middle name, that's his problem. If someone changes his name to 'Poophead,' he may decide it's a little more important than he thought. " Rouse's older brother, Bill, put in a bid of $1,500 in an effort to make Matthew keep the family name of his grandfather, but the bid kept rising. Whatever the final choice is, Rouse promises to use the moniker "whenever plausible and not hide it. "