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Washington Post (blog) House passes farm bill preserving crop subsidies, slightly curbing food stampsFox NewsThe House on Wednesday approved a nearly $100 billion-a-year farm bill that would make small reductions in the growth of food stamp spending while continuing generous subsidies for the nation's farmers. The vote was 251-166. The …

The mailboxes at the Buffalo post office have been compromised and con artists have stolen around $7,500 out of the boxes since mid-December, according to the Johnson County Sheriff’s Department. More: continued here

John Donahoe tells Fortune why spinning off PayPal would hurt — not help — the online credit business, how eBay is changing for the better, and whether customers can expect delivery via air drone any time soon. More: continued here

KLINGERSTOWN — Flames destroyed apartments, wrecked a Post Office and displaced 4 families in Schuylkill County. Firefighters had their hands… More: continued here

How the New Farm Bill Cuts $8 Billion From Food StampsWall Street Journal (blog)If there's one key number to the fate of the new five-year farm bill deal unveiled Monday night, it's the roughly $8 billion cut over 10 years to food-stamp funding. Spending on nutrition programs sank an earlier …

Washington Post Prosecutors say McDonnells can talk to relatives, but not about the caseWashington PostThe McDonnells were charged last week in a 14-count indictment growing out of their relationship with a wealthy Richmond businessman, a relationship first described by The Washington Post in March. Authorities allege that over nearly two …

First Post OfficeStatesman JournalThe first post office in Polk County wasn't much. It was Nathaniel Ford's cabin at Rickreall. It began as such in the early 1840s. And it wasn't much of a post office— just a place to drop mail off and maybe pick some up. Mail service wasn't …

Christian Science Monitor Who gets food stamps? More are college grads; half are working age. (+video)Christian Science MonitorWorking-age people are now the majority recipients of food stamps, overtaking the share who are children and seniors, the traditional beneficiaries of the program, according to a new analysis from The Associated Press …

Eugene man sentenced for Elmira Post Office burglaryThe Register-GuardA Eugene man who said his methamphetamine addiction drove him to commit a string of crimes, including break-ins at two rural post offices, was sentenced Tuesday to almost two years in prison. Allen Joseph Widmer, 43, appeared in U.S. District Court in …Judge …

89.3 KPCC Republicans Just Won the Food Stamp WarMother JonesOn Wednesday morning, Republicans won a years-long battle over whether to slash or spare food stamps when the House passed the farm bill, a $500 billion piece of legislation that funds nutrition and agriculture programs for the next five years. The …