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Social Security benefits to rise in 2007
Oct 18 2006 10:07PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Social Security checks for nearly 49 million retirees are going up by 3.3 percent next year _ an average increase of $33 per month, though rising health care costs will take a bite out of the gain.
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Post Office to eliminate stamp machines
Oct 18 2006 1:12PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Postage stamps can be purchased by mail, at the supermarket, even from many bank cash machines. But there's one place you won't be able to get them in a few years _ vending machines at the post office. The U.S. Postal Service plans to eliminate its 23,000 vending machines by 2010, the agency said in a recent internal memo.
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Feds break up Colombian money-launderers
Oct 18 2006 11:25AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Law enforcement agents broke up a Colombian money-laundering ring Wednesday, arresting 26 people in three countries and seizing more than $16.5 million in cash and drugs, drug enforcement officials said.
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