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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 ...

Study: Casper air quality improves since smoke ban

A study conducted by anti-smoking groups found that air quality improved in Casper businesses that ceased to allow smoking when a city-wide smoking ban took effect. Air quality as gauged by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency improved from "very healthy" to "good." The Casper Star-Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/165zOcZ) the study was ...

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 ...

City snuffs smoking ban expansion

The McComb Board of Selectmen has voted down a proposed ordinance that would ban smoking in all public workplaces in the city. The Mississippi Tobacco Free Coalition had proposed the ordinance. The Enterprise-Journal reports (http://bit.ly/16DZZac ) that the board voted 5-0 this week against the ordinance. The city already has ...

Adel Abuzahrieh of Staten Island, N.Y. is seen in an undated photo provided by the Delaware State Police. State police arrested Abuzahrieh, 47, on Wednesday, May 15, 2013, in the takedown of an alleged East Coast cigarette smuggling ring after a traffic stop on Route 1 near Milford. Authorities believe the smuggling ring may have funneled money to terrorist groups. Abuzahrieh is being held on $12.5 million cash bail. (AP Photo/Delaware State Police)

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 ...

FDA tobacco chief speaks at industry meeting

Changes in the marketplace have forced the public health community to wrestle with the idea that some tobacco products may pose less of a health risk than others, the new head of the Food and Drug Administration's tobacco control efforts told an industry group on Thursday. Mitch Zeller, who took ...

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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