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Local reaction to Postal Service plan mixed
staff writer, @damichellegSomerset County residents have mixed opinions about the U.S. Postal Service's plan to stop Saturday delivery. The announcement was made Wednesday that first-class packages would not be delivered on Saturdays starting in August. Boswell Borough...Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, U.S. Postal Service, Bill Shuster, Transportation, Mail Order Industry
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UPDATED: Postal Service to cut Saturday mail, keep 6-day package delivery
WASHINGTON (AP) — The financially struggling U.S. Postal Service said Wednesday it will stop delivering mail on Saturdays but continue to disburse packages six days a week, an apparent end-run around an unaccommodating Congress. The service...
Tags: Washington, DC, Retirement, U.S. Postal Service, Finance, Mail Order Industry
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Postal Service seeks to end Saturday mail delivery
The U.S. Postal Service, struggling under a financial load and facing tough competition, will stop delivering mail on Saturdays beginning this summer, officials announced. The announcement, which had been expected, is seen as an attempt to force...Tags: U.S. Postal Service, Finance, Elijah E. Cummings, Mail Order Industry, Marketing
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Aaron Swartz's suicide continues to ripple through Congress
Aaron Swartz may change the Internet yet again, even in death, with the help of lawmakers who have expressed a fondness for breaking the law. At a Washington, D.C., memorial Monday night, members of Congress and loved ones gathered to remember Swartz,...
Tags: Computer Crime, Washington, DC, Alan Grayson, Alan Turing, Los Angeles Times
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Assistant Atty. Gen. Lanny Breuer to exit amid criticism, praise
WASHINGTON — Assistant U.S. Atty. Gen. Lanny A. Breuer, who made his mark ramping up the prosecution of white-collar crime and overseeing the government’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill investigation, announced he is soon leaving his post as one...
Tags: Organized Crime, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Eric Holder, Political Corruption, Criminals
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Valley homeowners to cash in on foreclosure deal
About 23,000 homeowners in the Lehigh Valley and surrounding counties could get a piece of the $8.5 billion settlement announced this week to settle allegations that banks didn't play fair when foreclosing on homes. The settlement is the result of...Tags: Wells Fargo & Co., MetLife Incorporated, Federal Reserve, Consumers, Bank of America Corp.
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House Ethics Committee finds no violations in Countrywide VIP probe
WASHINGTON -- The House Ethics Committee has found no rules violations by lawmakers and staffers who used a VIP loan program from Countrywide Financial Corp. saying the allegations of special treatment fell outside the panel's jurisdiction. The...
Tags: Edolphus Towns, Values, Kent Conrad, Finance, U.S. House Committee on Ethics
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'Fast and Furious' defendant gets prison for buying guns
L.A. NOWThe first of 20 individuals indicted in 2011 on charges of buying high-powered firearms in Arizona to be used by Mexican drug gangs was sentenced Monday in San Diego federal court to 57 months in prison. Danny Cruz Morones, 24,...... -
1st 'Fast and Furious' defendant sentenced
Los Angeles TimesSAN DIEGO - The first of 20 individuals indicted in 2011 on charges of buying high-powered firearms in Arizona to be used by Mexican drug gangs was sentenced Monday in San Diego federal court to 57 months in prison. Danny Cruz Morones, 24, of Phoenix...Tags: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, U.S. Border Patrol, Firearms, Trials, Prosecution
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Libya reckoning
Day by day, the public is learning more about what happened in the Sept. 11 attack that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others. There is still much confusion. But last week we gleaned two key points from a State Department briefing and a...
Tags: U.S. Department of State, United Nations, Islam, White House, Republican Party
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Libya killings: State Department breaks with Administration's movie story
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department now says it never believed the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was a film protest gone awry, giving congressional Republicansnew fodder for criticizing the Obama administration's...
Tags: Washington, DC, U.S. Department of State, United Nations, Elections, Islam
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Official sought more security in Libya
CNNThe State Department's top security official in Libya asked for extra security for the consulate in Benghazi in the months before the diplomatic post was overrun in a deadly attack but received no response from superiors, according to documents obtained...Tags: U.S. Department of State, Elections, Tripoli (Libya), Government, Libya
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