Bloomberg Post Offices Tougher to Close Under US Senate OverhaulBusinessWeekBy Michelle Jamrisko on April 24, 2012 A Senate bill to overhaul the cash- strapped US Postal Service would make it more difficult to shutter post offices considered too costly to maintain. The legislation would create an appeal process to let …Post Offices Tougher to Close…
How many Americans get food stamps?Belleville News DemocratBY ROGER SCHLUETER – News-Democrat Q. I think I heard on "The Cafferty Report" on CNN that one in seven Americans receives food stamps. I don't believe that, but if it is true, I am very angry. I know it's abused, but one in seven kind of floors…
Lawmakers strike deal to save Eastern Shore mail center, but area post offices…Baltimore Sun (blog)By John Fritze, The Baltimore Sun Key senators reached a tentative agreement Tuesday to save a mail processing center considered significant to the Eastern Shore economy but left the fate of more than a dozen post offices in the Baltimore region…
Augusta store named in federal indictment on food stamp fraudThe Augusta ChronicleBy Kyle Martin An Augusta store is named in a federal indictment outlining a conspiracy that siphoned more than $5 million in food stamps and other low-income benefits into personal bank accounts. Seven defendants are scheduled for arraignment Thursday … More: continued here
Owners of the city’s Old Main Post Office have been hit with 21 code violations after a February blaze that scorched the historic building’s roof. Among the allegations against owners International Property Developers is that the track fans used to ventilate fumes from underground trains were dirty and inoperable. The building’s ventilation system is designed…
Daily Mail Thriller on cards as Bangalore face ChennaiDaily MailBy Mail Today Reporter An intense battle is on the cards as two in-form teams in starstudded Royal Challengers Bangalore and defending champions Chennai Super Kings lock horns at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore on Wednesday.and more » More: continued here
WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Texas — A FedEx truck was hit by a freight train in Williamson County Tuesday morning. The Texas Department of Public Safety says the accident happened at 10:30 a.m. along Highway 79 and McNutt between Round Rock and Hutto. DPS says a FedEx truck tried to cross the railroad tracks and was hit by a train traveling at 45 miles…
Owners of old Post Office hit with code violations after Feb. 17 fireChicago Sun-TimesBY TINA SFONDELES Transportation Reporter tsfondeles@suntimes.com April 24, 2012 2:24PM Chicago firefighters battle a roof fire at the old Chicago Post Office building Friday evening. The fire was contained to a section of the roof in the north tower. More: continued here
New post offices to come up near LoC: Chief Postmaster GeneralGreaterKashmir.comSrinagar, Apr 24: Chief Postmaster General J&K Circle, John Samuel on Tuesday, said new post offices would be set up in the frontier areas near Line of Control (LoC) and four more mobile post offices would come up along 300-km Srinagar-Jammu Highway. More: continued here
The Manassas city post office building may be worth more in sentiment than in dollars, but the U.S. Marshals Service thinks it’s definitely worth more than what it fetched at auction recently. The stately brick building on Church Street has been home to the Old Town post office since the 1930s, and it’s a place…