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Senate votes to make small cut to food stamps
The Senate voted Tuesday to keep a $400 million annual cut — or roughly a half of 1 percent — to the food stamp program as part of a major five-year farm bill. Food stamps now cost almost $80 billion annually and are used by 1 in 7 Americans. The ...
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White House says more farm subsidy cuts needed
The Obama administration said Monday it wants to see more cuts to agriculture subsidies in a massive farm bill moving through the Senate this week. The bill would cost almost $100 billion a year over five years and would set policy for farm programs and food aid. The legislation would ...
NY cigarette tax probes called weak, sloppy
Sting operations aimed at black market cigarettes in New York had such weak investigative protocols and financial controls that money went missing and prosecutions were dismissed, the state inspector general reported Monday. In one case, the Department of Taxation and Finance couldn't account for $160,000 of lost cash from covert ...
SC colleges look at on-campus tobacco bans
Campus-wide bans against smokers could spread to several South Carolina universities. The State newspaper of Columbia reports (http://bit.ly/110zJ7i) that at least 10 South Carolina colleges have gone tobacco free and at least five others are considering it in the country's fifth-largest tobacco-growing state. University of South Carolina President Harris Pastides ...
Del. police arrest suspect in reputed smuggling
A man arrested in Delaware as part of the takedown of an alleged East Coast cigarette smuggling ring that may have funneled money to terrorist groups is being held on $12.5 million cash bail. State police arrested Adel Abuzahrieh, 47, of Staten Island, N.Y., on Wednesday after a traffic stop ...
Minnesota news in brief at 7:58 p.m. CDT
2 Minnesota women sentenced in Somali terror case MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Two Minnesota women convicted of conspiring to send money to al-Shabab in Somalia were given prison sentences in federal court Thursday, ending a week of punishments tied to long-running investigations into terrorism recruiting and financing for the terrorist group. ...
Recordings: Ex-speaker told of tax bill concerns
Former Connecticut House Speaker Chris Donovan knew that tobacco shop owners were worried about a tax increase proposal and that they were seeking his help in defeating it, but Donovan insisted he didn't kill the measure when it didn't come up for a vote in last year's regular session, according ...
SC lawmakers debate taxing electronic cigarettes
A bill that would allow South Carolina to tax electronic cigarettes passed a House panel Wednesday, but supporters acknowledge it has little chance of becoming law this year. Instead, a subcommittee sent the proposal on to the House Ways and Means Committee to start debate on how to handle the ...
More charges in contraband tobacco scheme
Two Kentucky men and a tobacco company have been indicted for their alleged involvement in the trafficking of contraband cigarettes. David Brian Cooper, 47, George Bertram, 53, both of Jamestown, Ky., and Tantus Tobacco Co of Russell Springs, Ky., pleaded not guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Oxford, Miss. ...
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