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WASHINGTON – The fate of $600-$1,200 rebate checks for more than 100 million Americans is in limbo after Senate Republicans blocked a bid by Democrats to add $44 billion in help for the elderly, disabled veterans, the unemployed and businesses to the House-passed economic aid package. GOP senators banded together …

DES MOINES, Iowa – A seven-year casino employee fired after posting in his office a “Dilbert” comic comparing managers to “drunken lemurs” has become the subject of the strip. • Click here to watch video. David Steward was fired from the Catfish Bend Casino because management found the cartoon “very …

An 8-year-old Canadian girl died suddenly last week shortly after becoming ill, it is reported by CBC News. Kyla Ootova of Iqaluit, the capital city of Nunavut in Canada, left classes last Thursday at Nakasuk School, where she was enrolled in the third grade, because she was ill. She died …