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Big Business knows how to assess fees onto the unsuspecting

By Jim Pawlak Columnist
Dec 22, 2007 10:00 pm - "Gotcha Capitalism: How Hidden Fees Rip You Off Every Day …" by Bob Sullivan, Ballentine Books, $14.95. Most Americans are financially illiterate. Credit card debt is sk...
Ancient Nepal tradition under fire

Associated Press
Dec 22, 2007 10:00 pm - KATMANDU, Nepal -- The living goddess likes bubble gum. On a cold autumn evening, during a festival giving thanks for the monsoon rains, dozens of chanting worshippers p...
Fresh out of school, he ran ship into rocks

Associated Press
Dec 22, 2007 10:00 pm - JUNEAU, Alaska -- A small cruise ship that ran aground last spring did so under the watch of a 22-year-old navigator fresh out of a maritime academy with no formal knowl...
At least 2 dead as storms roll across Plains

Associated Press
Dec 22, 2007 10:00 pm - ST. JOSEPH, Mo. -- A blinding snowstorm blew across the Plains on Saturday, causing at least two deaths and dozens of injuries in numerous multicar pileups and forcing a...
Happy holidays? Not in Hollywood

Associated Press
Dec 22, 2007 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- Nearly two months without paychecks. Scores of shuttered shows. Thousands out of work. The Hollywood writers strike suggests a bleak Christmas for many in...
Tony Blair converts from Anglican to Catholicism

Associated Press
Dec 22, 2007 10:00 pm - LONDON -- Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has left the Church of England and converted to Catholicism, the faith of his wife and children. Blair converted during a Mass...
Paying it forward … with Starbucks

Associated Press
Dec 22, 2007 10:00 pm - MARYSVILLE, Wash. -- One woman's kindness to a fellow Starbucks patron resulted in more than a thousand others spreading the holiday-season generosity in this northwest ...
Body found in home of missing Marshall University student

Associated Press
Dec 22, 2007 10:00 pm - HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Investigators on Saturday removed the body of a young woman found in a crawl space at an apartment building where a missing Marshall University stud...
France reassures Karzai

Associated Press
Dec 22, 2007 10:00 pm - KABUL, Afghanistan -- The leaders of France and Australia met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai Saturday, each pledging their countries' long-term commitment to Afghani...
Santa nailed to cross to protest Christmas commercialism

Associated Press
Dec 21, 2007 10:00 pm - BREMERTON, Wash. -- Art Conrad has an issue with the commercialism of Christmas, and his protest has gone way beyond just shunning the malls or turning off his televisio...

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