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Tax hike looming in Turkeyfoot; board takes action to reduce field trip costs
Daily American Staff Writer, @daalyssacA tax hike is in the works for Turkeyfoot school district residents. The Turkeyfoot school board unanimously approved a $5 million preliminary budget and voted 7-1 to approve a tax rate of 25.34 mills, a 0.21-mill increase. Board members will vote on...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Travel
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It's news, not espionage
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has no business rummaging through journalists' phone records, perusing their emails and tracking their movements in an attempt to keep them from gathering news. This heavy-handed business isn't chilling, it's...Tags: Espionage Act of 1917, Police Investigations, Fox News Channel (tv network), Journalism, Crime, Law and Justice
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After tornado, Obama offers support to Oklahoma governor
WASHINGTON--President Obama called Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin on Monday evening to offer federal support for the communities hit by a devastating tornado, the White House said in a statement. Obama expressed his concern for those affected and offered all...Tags: Mary Fallin, Janet Napolitano, Natural Disasters, Executive Branch, White House
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Bethlehem blogger Shane Burcaw launches Laughing at My Nightmare tour
Here's a man who is, as Bob Dylan would say, "busy living." Shane Burcaw, a 20-year-old blogging sensation, is living with a rare form of muscular dystrophy. He has blossomed since his story first ran on the front page of The Morning Call's 2011...
Tags: Butztown, Panera Bread Company, Bob Dylan, Diseases and Illnesses, The Ellen DeGeneres Show (tv program)
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Tiger Woods: I've never played Merion
Tiger Woods said that the next time he plays Merion Golf Club will be the first. Merion, which will host the U.S. Open for the first time since 1981, will be new for plenty of pros, Woods among them. The world's No. 1 player, who has won three U.S. Open...
Tags: The Players Championship, U.S. Open (golf), Sergio Garcia, Tiger Woods
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Broward women brought 143 Haitian workers to US for fake jobs, feds say
The 143 workers paid as much as $3,500 each, lured to South Florida from Haiti with false promises of steady paying jobs in construction or on farms, the hope of getting permanent residency and making a life in the U.S., they said. But when they arrived,...Tags: Labor Legislation, Haiti, Crime, Law and Justice, Career and Workplace, Tamarac
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President Obama offers encouragement for reforms in Myanmar
WASHINGTON -- President Obama welcomed Myanmar President Thein Sein to the White House on Monday with tokens of encouragement as the former military ruler pushes democratic reforms in the once-authoritarian Southeast Asian nation. Obama praised Thein...
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Crime, Law and Justice, White House
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Senate confirms new judge for Middle District of Florida
WASHINGTON -- By a vote of 90-0, the U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed Sheri Polster Chappell to serve as a new judge for the Middle District of Florida, which includes Orlando. The confirmation follows an unsuccessful bid by the White House last year to...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, White House, Nova Southeastern University, Justice System, Barack Obama
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How the IRS spun out of control
WASHINGTON — Steven Miller, the top enforcement official at the Internal Revenue Service, thought he might have trouble on his hands. Election season was well underway in March 2012 when tea party organizations started to complain angrily of IRS...
Tags: U.S. Army, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Crime, Law and Justice, Internal Revenue Service, Interior Policy
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Some Md. lawmakers ready to consider business tax cut
kaustuv.basu@herald-mail.comWhen Del. Andrew A. Serafini, R-Washington, introduced a bill during the 2013 session of the Maryland General Assembly seeking to reduce the state’s corporate income tax from 8.25 percent to 4 percent, he suggested that his bill might be a way to...Tags: Maryland General Assembly, University of Maryland, College Park, Business, Politics, Anirban Basu
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AP CEO calls records seizure unconstitutional
WASHINGTON (AP) — The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records "unconstitutional" and said the news cooperative had not ruled out legal...
Tags: Meet the Press (tv program), Journalism, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Central Intelligence Agency
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GOP ponders how to capitalize on Obama's woes
WASHINGTON (AP) — The scandals dogging President Barack Obama are a political gift to Republicans, who could use some good luck after recent election losses. It's not clear, however, how Republicans can best capitalize on Democrats' woes,...
Tags: Benghazi, Crime, Law and Justice, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), White House, Jack Kingston
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