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  • Waiting on the Fed, Wall St. Is Unchanged
    Stocks were largely unchanged in early trading on Wednesday, holding on to gains over the last two days, ahead of a highly anticipated Federal Reserve statement and news conference.
    June 19, 2013 - New York Times
  • Bump says dead were collecting welfare for decades
    Some of the people whose Social Security numbers were used to receive public benefits had been dead for decades, Auditor Suzanne Bump told a House oversight committee Monday. “We could see when we’re looking at the data, this is a Social Security number of someone who had died decades ago,” Bump said, noting that in addition to recipients who died and stayed on the rolls, some of them were ...
    June 18, 2013 - The Patriot Ledger
  • Cops were near Castro home 1000 times
    During the more than a decade that Ariel Castro allegedly held kidnapped teenagers and young women captive in his home at 2207 Seymour Ave., police officers were within shouting distance of the house more than a thousand times, according to Cleveland Police Department records analyzed by NBC News.
    June 17, 2013 - MSN