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IRS warns of e-mail scam
Although it may look like a legitimate e-mail notice from the IRS, it may really be a scam to bilk you of your money.

Senate approves changes on child support laws
PHOENIX Arizona companies won't be forced to provide more help to the state to crack down on those who don't pay their child support.

Agents make several drug seizures at ports
BISBEE - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Naco Port of Entry arrested a 46-year-old Mexican man from Phoenix on Saturday after finding almost 48 pounds of marijuana hidden inside the dashboard of a Plymouth Neon he was driving.

Illegal immigrant sentenced to prison for burglary
BISBEE - An illegal immigrant from Mexico who burglarized a home in the Chiricahua Mountains was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison Friday.

Avoid the Summer Pinch at the Pumps-7 Tips to Help You Save on Gas
PHOENIX - (June 1, 2007)... Drivers nationwide are feeling the pinch at the pumps, and as record high gas prices set in across the country, the pinch isn't likely to lighten up during the peak driving season, according to Mike Sullivan, director of education for Take Charge America, a national non-profit credit counseling agency.

The Zinghoppers make reading fun on June 6!
A special show for children and their families is coming to Douglas on Wednesday, June 6. The Zinghoppers are a fun, playful band of musicians, dancers and educators specializing in music and movement for preschool and elementary age children.

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Microbusiness center serves as an incubator for entrepreneurs
DOUGLAS - Earlier this year, Edwin Bayse decided it was time to get serious about finding a good job.

400 new jobs open in Elfrida
Four hundred factory jobs will be opening in Elfrida soon, as El Rey Foods will be getting bigger while it already is in operation on White Fawn Road in Elfrida, according to the Elfrida Citizens' Alliance, Inc.

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Tangy, tasty, terrific rhubarb
The tomato, as any fifth grader will be happy to tell you, seems like a vegetable but is actually, botanically, a fruit. Rhubarb is just the opposite. A vegetable (related to sorrel and buckwheat), rhubarb is used - and thought of - as a fruit. Indeed, in the late 1940s, a U.S. Customs Court ruled it to be a fruit, for trade purposes. But if you are a rhubarb lover, you put the green-red stalks in a class by themselves: the first taste of spring; a gift from Mother Earth; the palate's tangy wake-up call.

Make frozen family fun
I relive summer childhood memories every year by making ice cream with the family. There arenít too many activities that recall a simpler time than stirring together a favorite batch of ice cream. Today, though, I pour my ice cream mix into an electric freezeróbut if you have a hand-crank model, thatís lots of fun, especially for the kids.

Useful ways to reuse plastic bags
It seems everywhere I turn there is a new article or TV story about how to "go green" by taking an environmentally friendly approach to many areas of our lives.

The 60+ lunch bunch
Persons 60 years and older are welcome to partake of tasty, nutritious hot meals

Religion

Men plan to 'Stand in the Gap' again
For generations, preachers have been asking the same sobering question to provoke people into thinking about ultimate issues: If you died tonight, do you know where you would spend eternity?

Former Presidents Carter, Clinton and Bush to attend dedication of Billy Graham Library
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