Memorial Bridge project to get $20M federal grant; LaHood to announce in Maine
New Hampshire and Maine will receive a $20 million U.S. Department of Transportation grant to help replace Memorial Bridge, and Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood is expected to travel to Maine for the official announcement Wednesday.

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Software design company relocating to Fort Worth
A San Diego-based computer software design company is planning a move to the Fort Worth area, a Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce executive said Wednesday.

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Couple signed up for more than what was advertised
SAN ANTONIO – People finance a lot of different things – their home, cars, even their appliances. But one local couple had troubles affording a new TV after theirs went out. Though they couldn’t get credit to buy another one, a relative could.  They say the relative fell for a bad deal, though. So they called Barry Davis and Eyewitness Wants to Know for help. Diana and Jason Campbell saw an ad …

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NFL Capsules – AFC: Indy hopes rejuvenated run game creates new look
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Colts running back Mike Hart doesn’t gauge progression simply by numbers. He prefers to watch it on tape.

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Consumers cut credit card borrowing for 24th month
Jim Prisching Unemployed workers fill out applications during a jobs fair sponsored by Scott Lee Cohen, Independent Candidate for Governor of Illinois on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010, in Rockford, Ill. Americans are borrowing and spending less as they face widespread unemployment and uncertainty about their financial futures.

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Arizona Family Chooses To Live In The Middle
Gregg and Lola Donnell, who earn right around the national median income, could work more, but then they’d have less time for what matters to them. The Donnells, who have three kids, choose not just to live within their means, but to live within their needs. And that suits them fine. read more

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PRINCETON: Citizens group wants towns to repair revaluation
Former Mayor Jim Floyd thinks there is something systemically wrong with how a recent revaluation of Princeton Borough and Township properties was done. The result, he said, is that some homes in the same neighborhoods, and very often on the same street, were revalued at drastically different amounts.

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Basketball Capsules: Baylor guard Dunn suspended after arrest in Texas
WACO (AP) — Baylor indefinitely suspended leading scorer LaceDarius Dunn on Tuesday after he surrendered to police to face an aggravated assault charge accusing him of breaking his girlfriend’s jaw during an argument last week.

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SCHOOL NEWS: The Californian, Oct. 4, 2010
STUDENT STANDOUTS

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Savings squeezed by debt, rate hikes
Rising levels of debt and another spate of interest rate hikes could soon cut into people’s savings.

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