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Dixie Electric Membership Corp. to Raise Rates

Associated Press — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 14:52:53 +0000

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The 100,000 or so customers of Dixie Electric Membership Corp. can expect monthly electric bills increase more than 4 percent starting April 1 for a year.

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Bastrop, TX, Homeless Man Gets to Keep $77,000 He Found in a Bag

Mithun Divakaran — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:55:44 +0000

Timothy Yost’s life has changed for the better after the City Council of Bastrop, TX, agreed to allow the homeless man to keep a bag of loot worth up to $77,000 that he found in a park last January.Well, that’s after Yost gets out of jail first.

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Canada's Money May Be on the Verge of Becoming Digital with the 'MintChip' — Dollars and Sense [VIDEO]

Danny Gallagher — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:12:30 +0000

Canada has been making some interesting changes to its currency from ditching its penny to pushing pretty, plastic pesos. The latest may become one of the coolest forms of cash on the continent.

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Bossier City Businessman Jailed For Swindling Customers

James Stanley — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:44:03 +0000

Bossier Sheriff Larry Deen says a Bossier businessman was arrested Monday afternoon for swindling thousands of dollars from customers after they paid for swimming pools or barns, only to have the man never deliver on the services.

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710keel — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 06:03:53 +0000

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Which US States Have the Most Millionaires?

Shauna Wright — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:54:59 +0000

While many in the US are feeling the pinch of the recession, others are enjoying unprecedented boom times.

So says Phoenix Marketing International, which just released its annual roundup of the states with the most millionaires and found that for the second year in a row, the overall number of millionaire households in the US actually went up.

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Magazine Covers From Days Following September 11, 2001

Stephanie Berning — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:27:21 +0000

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 brought the world to a standstill, with all eyes focused on New York City. Below are some of the more iconic magazine covers from the days and weeks following the tragic event.

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Man Arrested After IRS Mistakenly Deposits $110K In His Account [VIDEO]

Wendy Gould — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:31:16 +0000

When Stephen McDow discovered there was an extra $110,000 from the IRS in his checking account, it was probably one of the best days of his life.

Unfortunately, the money wasn’t for him.

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