1. Federal workers owe $3.5 billion in back taxes

    tax_bill

    ... jumped by nearly 12 percent in 2011, the Internal Revenue Service said Friday. Nearly 312,000 federal ... workers and retirees owed more than $3.5 billion in back taxes as of Sept. 30, 2011, the agency said

  2. Woman home alone kills intruder

    ... -telegram.com/2011/12/29/3622844/tv-reports-fort-woprth-woman-kills.html#my-headlines-default#storylink=cpy Read the whole story at Fort Worth Star-Telegram ... death was ruled a homicide, according to the M.E.'s website Read more here: http://www.star

  3. The Eurocrisis comes to America

    ... . 21, it will release revisions to home sales for 2007 through the first 10 months 2011. Home sales ... [A]s noted over a week ago, European banks scrambled to obtain cheap dollars by borrowing over $50 ... billion from the Fed, and plug dollar shortfalls. Yet as all band aid measures designed to offset

  4. Great Recession followed by grand illusion

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    ... domestic product in 2010 and 2011, the economy slowed to 1.5% growth in 2012. Cumulative growth ... for the past 12 quarters was just 6.3%, the slowest of all 11 recessions since World War II ... expenditures out of the economy over the next 10 years, including $85 billion this year alone. The 2

  5. Puzzle 128

    ... 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ... . Footnotes, briefly 10. Stare longingly 14. Description for spring 2011? 15. Not very clandestine 16 ... 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37

  6. 31,536,000 seconds, 525,600 minutes, 8,700 hours

    ... cause: the Gospel, defense of my family, America. Perhaps I could spare four or five of my 10 to 12 ... Year's resolutions for 2011?! Where does the time go? We may shake our heads as we ask that question ... are segments of your life. However, in 2011 you spent, invested or wasted 31,536,000 seconds of your

  7. New Orleans struggles to stem homicides

    ... Orleans this year, a tally that matched the previous year’s homicide count, but with more than ... a month before 2011 was out. Read the whole story at New York Times

  8. Now Mammoth Lakes files for bankruptcy

    mammoth-lakes

    ... of its annual operating budget and a $2.8-million shortfall in its 2011-12 fiscal year, the town had ... court order requiring full payment by June 30, 2012. Facing a judgment nearly three times the size

  9. 'Just a miscarriage'?

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    ... a miscarriage.) On the morning of February 23, 2011, I awoke to the scream of my wife coming from ... to the toilet bleeding. In tears she pointed to the toilet where the body of my son (approximately 12 weeks ... and she was bleeding badly. I wrapped a towel around her to stop the bleeding and scooped my son’s

  10. More dogs getting sick from marijuana in Northwest

    canines_for_cannabis

    ... been increasing in recent years, according to DoveLewis Animal Hospital. In 2011, less than 12