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Amanda Smith pushes her son, Shaun Joseph Smith on the tire swing at Dream Park on Friday afternoon. Covington County ranks near the middle of the state in child well-being in a study released this week.
Covington County ranks 35th in the state in child well being, according to statistics in the 2008 Kids Count Data Book.
The numbers are b...
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Barack Obama wants to raise taxes on high-income workers to ease Social Security's looming cash crunch. John McCain favors voluntary private accounts for younger workers, saying they can't count on the same government benefits as today's retirees.
Beyond those generalities—and a shared opposition to an increase in the retirement age—the two presidential rivals are long on commitmen...
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Associated Press Writer= WASHINGTON (AP) - Medicare has become a new focal point in the presidential campaign, with Democratic nominee Barack Obama accusing Republican John McCain of seeking "cuts in benefits, eligibility, or both."
Elderly voters are sure to take notice of such statements being made in a 30-second television ad that the Obama campaign will air in some crucial swing state...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Wisconsin's top wildlife official is urging hunters to refrain from baiting and feeding deer this fall.
Department of Natural Resources Secretary Matt Frank says there are some new health concerns that make it important to reduce the risks of spreading disease in the whitetail herd.
Franks says tuberculosis has been identified in the Minnesota deer herd and chr...
HONOLULU -- Hawaii is dropping the only state universal child health care program in the country just seven months after it launched.
Gov. Linda Lingle's administration cited budget shortfalls and other available health care options for eliminating funding for the program. A state official said families were dropping private coverage so their children would be eligible for the subsidized...
DENVER -- Fort Carson soldiers returning from deployment in Iraq are suspects in at least five slayings, and officials want to know why.
Commander Maj. Gen. Mark Graham announced Friday a task force will examine any commonalities in the five killings, all allegedly committed by soldiers from the post's 4th Brigade Combat Team in the past 14 months. A sixth BCT soldier faces an attempted ...
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That's going to be hard to do. The U.S. Labor Department last weeksaid 159,000 non-farm jobs were eliminated nationwide in September.That's more than twice as many job losses reported in August. The BayArea has been insulated to some extent because of its high-techstatus, but it is not immune from cutbacks. In fact, hiring in Octobercould be the toughest in years according to the Society for ...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D.—Two years after South Dakotans rejected a nearly total ban on abortion, voters on Nov. 4 will decide another sweeping but less restrictive ballot measure that would probably send a legal challenge of Roe v. Wade to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The initiative would outlaw abortions but includes exceptions for rape, incest and pregnancies that threaten the life or health ...
ALGIERS: Opec oil producers will cut oil supplies when they meet next week in Vienna and “the reduction must be significant,” the group’s president, Chakib Khelil, was quoted as saying yesterday.
“There will be a reduction of the output and the reduction must be significant to restore the balance between supply and demand,” Algerian state news agency APS quoted Khelil as telling...
For several years now, playing quarterback in the NFL has come equipped with two measuring sticks - Tom Brady of the Patriots and Peyton Manning of the Colts.
Every other quarterback was simply trying to be mentioned in the same breath with those two, simply trying to earn a comparison with their legendary bretheran.
Many have come along to challenge the lofty status of Brady and Ma...
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In an attempt to better understand the motives and views of young professionals in Massachusetts, in-state think tank MassINC released "Great Expectations: A Survey of Young Adults" this past July.
Gleaned from a survey polling 801 people with ages ranging from 25 to 39 the document, completed this March, unearths several trends. Only 4 percent of those polled were "very confident that st...