All Stories from September 25, 2011 (Change date)
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Training preps grain bin rescuersSep 25, 2011 5:00 am - DECATUR, Ill. — Bill Harp travels around the country helping emergency personnel to be prepared to rescue those who become trapped in confined spaces. Members of Harp’s ...
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One family’s adventures in localismSep 25, 2011 5:00 am - SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The first real snag came around Day 120. For four straight months, the Levitch family had stuck to their 365-day pledge to “go local” — forgoing Star...
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Women’s rights are ‘smart economics,’ World Bank saysSep 25, 2011 5:00 am - Empowering women is “smart economics,” the World Bank says in a report whose message resonates with white-collar workers like unemployed Chilean investment adviser Fanny...
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Stalemate in Poland over work of a Yiddish authorSep 25, 2011 5:00 am - WARSAW, Poland — Free after a decade in Soviet labor camps, Yiddish author Naftali Herts Kon believed he was entering the free world when in 1959 he took his wife and da...
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Debt collection business is great but hard as everSep 25, 2011 5:00 am - ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — These are the best of times, and the worst of times, for America’s debt collectors. The prolonged economic turmoil has created more opportunity tha...
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Drought creates a buyer’s market for cattle ranchersSep 25, 2011 5:00 am - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — The drought in the Southwest may help 29-year-old Chad Bicker get to his goal of being a full-time farmer and rancher by the time he’s 40. As farm...
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Rewards cards coming with biggest bonuses everSep 25, 2011 5:00 am - NEW YORK — Credit card issuers are offering some of their biggest sign-on bonuses ever. As the competition to attract customers intensifies, banks are promising an extra...
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Local governments tap alcohol sales for revenueSep 25, 2011 5:00 am - HARRISON, Ark. — Dee Gusewelle used to rail against the sale of alcohol, posting signs in her yard and encouraging neighbors and passers-by to keep booze out of this pat...
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City has working colony of catsSep 25, 2011 5:00 am - MARSEILLES, Ill. — On Main Street in Marseilles, between the railroad tracks and the Illinois and Michigan Canal, there's a colony of working feral cats. They would pref...
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Recession upends dreams of aspiring teachersSep 25, 2011 5:00 am - COLUMBIA, S.C. — Stay-at-home-mom Cindy DePace was just hitting 30 when she decided to return to the work force by going back to school and becoming a teacher. She love...