All Stories from June 19, 2011 (Change date)
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Thanks for giving to ALS foundationJun 19, 2011 7:00 pm - On behalf of the Les Turner ALS Foundation, I want to thank our volunteers, sponsors and generous individuals who helped make the recent Tag Days donation drives a huge ...
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A perk that can make a taxpayer sickJun 19, 2011 7:00 pm - Charles Gilbert warned local governments 20 years ago that policies like paying out for sick pay would cause financial hardships. But it was the early 1990s when he wrot...
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Pacific Northwest soccer is hipJun 19, 2011 7:00 am - Young urbanites in a region that gave America grunge music and Starbucks are flocking to see the Seattle Sounders, the Portland Timbers and the Vancouver Whitecaps — and...
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Disaster plans save time, moneyJun 19, 2011 7:00 am - When Delores and Harry Haynes evacuated from New Orleans’ Gentilly neighborhood as Hurricane Katrina headed their way in 2005, they made sure to grab the Ziploc bags in ...
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Doctors, hospitals, poor to feel budget painJun 19, 2011 7:00 am - SPRINGFIELD — Illinois is on the verge of approving a Medicaid budget that could mean doctors and hospitals wait months to be paid and poor people have a harder time fin...
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Weak NBA draft could still provide assets for laterJun 19, 2011 7:00 am - NEW YORK — You can’t draft a Big Three, and Miami’s was beaten in the NBA finals by a Dallas team built almost entirely through trades and free agency. So although next ...
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Wells Fargo drops reverse mortgagesJun 19, 2011 7:00 am - Wells Fargo & Co., the largest U.S. home lender, said it was exiting the business of reverse mortgages because of the possibility that property values will decline furth...
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As bank fees escalate, prepaid cards go mainstreamJun 19, 2011 6:08 am - Rising fees have chased millions of people away from banks and into prepaid debit cards. In just a handful of years, prepaid cards have become the fastest-growing paymen...
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Illinois native comes home to farmJun 19, 2011 6:08 am - By Linda McGurk (Danville) Commercial-News HILLSBORO, Ind. (AP) — When Danville native Kim Crane, 35, and her partner Nick Johnson, 34, started an organic farm near Hill...
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Locked-out fringe players find ways to get byJun 19, 2011 6:08 am - NEW ORLEANS — With the NFL lockout putting the squeeze on both his wallet and pursuit of a pro football career, former Connecticut quarterback Tyler Lorenzen has created...