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Friday, October 05, 2012  US unemployment rate falls to 7.8 pct., lowest since 2009, giving Obama a potential boost

Wednesday, October 19, 2011  First Social Security increase since 2009 coming next year; size announced Wednesday

Saturday, August 13, 2011  Authorities need your help finding a missing person.

Monday, April 04, 2011  French officials say that specialists could start pulling up bodies and wreckage from an Air France plane from the Atlantic Ocean floor within a month.

Thursday, January 13, 2011  Former House Republican leader Tom DeLay says his conviction on money laundering charges was a politically-inspired case brought by prosecutors in "the most liberal county" in Texas.

Monday, October 11, 2010  The jobs crisis has brought an unwelcome discovery for many unemployed Americans: Job openings in their old fields exist. Yet they no longer qualify for them.

Thursday, October 07, 2010  A government investigator says 89,000 stimulus payments of $250 each went to people who were either dead or in prison.

Thursday, October 07, 2010  After the recession began in 2007, the suburbs continued to post larger increases in the number of poor — adding 1.8 million, compared to 1.4 million in the cities.

Tuesday, October 05, 2010  The government's giant bank bailout may well have averted a second Great Depression, economists say, but a lot of voters aren't buying it.

Monday, October 04, 2010  Though most economists think it helped avert a second Depression, the $700 billion program was as despised as any in U.S. history.

Friday, October 01, 2010  President Barack Obama's $800 billion-plus economic stimulus law may not be earning good grades with the public, but the White House claims it's on track to produce the promised 3.5 million jobs.

Friday, August 27, 2010  The U.S. birth rate has dropped for the second year in a row, and experts think the wrenching recession led many people to put off having children. The 2009 birth rate also set a record: lowest in a century.

Thursday, February 25, 2010  The Panhandle has brave men and woman make up our Amarillo Police Department and this morning they got a special thank you from the Rotary Club.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010  A fire marshal's review says failure to properly assess a house fire and communication problems may have contributed to the deaths of two Houston firefighters.

Monday, February 22, 2010  If you made a donation to the Haiti relief and you would like to claim it on your tax return you must do so by the end of the month