PARIS (Reuters) – World number two Ana Ivanovic stamped her title credentials at the French Open with a 6-0 6-0 fourth-round whitewashing of unseeded Czech Petra Cetkovska on Sunday.
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The number of households receiving food stamps through Henry-Martinsville Social Services surged past 5,000 in November, agency statistics show. Social services reported a total of 5,027 food stamp households containing 10,779 people last month. More: continued here
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) U.S. Postal Service Honors Working DogsSeattle Post Intelligencer (blog)The US Postal Service is celebrating “the enduring partnership between dogs and people” with the issuance of special stamps for working dogs, like search and rescue and therapy dogs who contribute so much in helping their human companions.Service Dogs Honored by U.S. Postal…
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Commentary: Food stamps are feeding more people in USMcClatchy Washington BureauUse of food stamps is soaring across the nation, and not just in urban pockets and rural backwaters where poverty has long been a way of life. …and more » More: continued here
Utahns' need for food help break recordsSalt Lake TribuneMarsh uses food stamps to support his strict vegetarian diet and receives food from the pantry twice a month. (Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) There … More: continued here
WLS-TV Prosecutors: Food stamps used to buy sex acts, lap dances at strip …WLS-TVProsecutors say food stamps were being used to buy lap dances at a strip club in Ohio.11 indicted following strip club raids in Harrison Township | WRGTWRGT TV Fox 4511 face charges after raids on 3 Dayton-area strip clubsHamilton Journal Newsall 5…