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WTHI Illinois at highest monthly number of households on food stamps for 2014WTHI“We'll run in the neighborhood of 120-130 of those families will be on food stamps or what we call here the Snap program. And it's been running pretty consistently that 60-66 percent of the families that come here …

They may be neighbours, but there certainly wasn’t any love lost when the Williams Lake Stampeders took on the Lac la Hache Tomahawks. More: continued here

Lighten up! Nothing wrong with US Postal Service selling fun stampsWalla Walla Union-BulletinThey are now getting heat from stamp purists who are ticked the Postal Service is issuing pop culture stamps— Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Batman and Harry Potter, for example — to make money. The idea is for …

A reader bought stamps online for £235 that went undelivered but Santander used a loophole to avoid paying a refund under credit card regulations More: continued here

USPS faces ire over pop culture images on stampsColumbia Daily HeraldTthe 29-cent Elvis Presley stamp debuted in 1993 and remains the all-time leader in commemorative stamps, with 500 million sold. However, some believe the postal service is only thinking of profit when they put pop culture images on stamps. (Image … …

Telegraph.co.uk My discounted stamps haven't turned up – and a technicality prevents a credit …Telegraph.co.ukSantander stressed that your claim had been declined as it considered the sheets of stamps purchased to be five individual items, each having a value of less than £100, so making the claim invalid. It went …

Postage goes meta as new Chinese stamps celebrate an ancient number pattern by themselves appearing in a pattern. According to Chinese legend a turtle like the one above crept out of the Yellow River about 4000 years ago. It looks like it is riddled with spots, or bullet holes. But …

The Hindu CAB to release stamps, envelopes on 150 years of Eden GardensThe HinduTo commemorate the 150th year of inception of the historic Eden Gardens, the Cricket Association of Bengal(CAB) will release about 5, 000 envelopes and stamps with photos of the world famous stadium along with its long-time president …

WASHINGTON — The cloistered world of postage stamps is roiling again with a public airing of dissent in the ranks of the secretive committee of prominent Americans that chooses new stamp images. More: continued here

Beijing authorities have banned people from burning the clothes of dead relatives — a traditional funerary rite to ensure they can dress in the afterlife — as an anti-pollution measure for an international summit, state-run media said Tuesday. The move comes days ahead of the opening of the Asia-Pacific Economic …