Nearly 300 jurors in Norfolk, VA were being tracked down this week after it was discovered that they had been paid twice for jury duty back in November, owing to a glitch. The checks were for either $30 or $60, and apparently couldn’t be cashed in any case.

Now to Guam, where the Guam Power Authority announced that about 1,300 customers who paid their bills online had been charged twice. Apparently an error message appeared after the card had been charged, and when the user closed out the message, their card was charged again. By the way, if, like me, you are wondering where Guam is, it’s a U.S. territory in the western Pacific, pretty much due north of Australia. So now you know.

Finally, our favorite story in this week’s mailbag was from the much less exotic Baltimore, MD, where the state Department of Human Resources just announced that about 2,400 people who do not qualify may have received public aid payouts. The Baltimore Sun reports:

The agency is required to routinely compare its database against deaths, lists of inmates in local detention centers and prisons and the public assistance rolls in other states. But because of a quirk in the agency’s software, auditors found, the periodic checks were comparing the external databases to only 65,000 names, not the full 800,000.

Hmm… I wonder why it would cut off at 65,000…