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GOP bill would avert fed shutdown till Dec. 11 09/11/2014 01:06am • ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans controlling the House unveiled a short-term spending bill Tuesday that would keep the government open into mid-December and provide $88 million to battle the Ebola outbreak.The spending measure will also extend the authority of the Export More Seniors Carry Student Loan Debt into Retirement 09/11/2014 12:00am • Americans are increasingly entering their retirement years with student loan debt. Outstanding federal student loan balances for people 65 and older have ballooned from about $2.8 billion in 2005 to $18.2 billion in 2013, according to a GAO analysis of Survey of Consumer Finances data. There are no Senior Americans burdened with student debt 09/10/2014 10:24pm • KIMBERLY HEFLING AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rosemary Anderson could be 81 by the time she pays off her student loans. After struggling with divorce, health problems and an underwater home mortgage, the 57-year-old anticipates there could come a day when her Social Security benefits will Cities prepare for warm climate without saying so 09/10/2014 09:54pm • JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer GRAND HAVEN, Mich. (AP) -- With climate change still a political minefield across the nation despite the strong scientific consensus that it's happening, some community leaders have hit upon a way of preparing for the potentially severe local consequences without Recreational pot eclipses medical pot in Colorado 09/10/2014 08:20pm • KRISTEN WYATT Associated Press DENVER (AP) -- Colorado is now selling more recreational pot than medical pot, a turning point for the newly legal industry, tax records released Wednesday show.The state sold $29.7 million worth of recreational marijuana in July, the most recent data available. That w Witness describes shooting at Iowa courthouse 09/10/2014 05:08pm • BARBARA RODRIGUEZ Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- An Iowa man who was killed during a public meeting shot at a county official despite numerous pleas from a group to put the gun down, a witness said Wednesday.Francis Glaser pulled a small handgun from a briefcase Tuesday as a group prepare News Guide: Highlights of primary elections 09/10/2014 03:30pm • The Associated Press Highlights from Tuesday's primary elections in Delaware, Massachusetts, New York, New Hampshire and Rhode Island.___TOP OF THE TICKETFormer Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown, a front-runner since he announced his bid in April, glided to an easy win Tuesday in the Republican primar Women's organization calls for Goodell to resign 09/10/2014 03:29pm • The Associated Press One of the country's largest feminist groups has called for NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to resign.The National Organization for Women says the NFL has "a violence-against-women problem" and "the only way to restore honor and integrity to the country's most lucrative and popu Spanish banking titan Emilio Botin dead at age 79 09/10/2014 02:42pm • ALAN CLENDENNING Associated Press MADRID (AP) -- Spanish banking magnate Emilio Botin, who built the country's Banco Santander into a global financial giant and was widely seen as the nation's most influential business leader, has died of a heart attack, the company said Wednesday. He was 79.Banco S Ex-jail supervisor in Va. sentenced in tax scheme 09/10/2014 02:38pm • CHESTERFIELD, Va. (AP) -- A former Piedmont Regional Jail supervisor will spend more than four years in prison for his role in a tax return scheme.William A. Coles Jr. also must make more than $1 million in restitution.The Richmond Times-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/YxlDvD ) reports that the 49-year-old Chiquita to talk with potential buyers 09/10/2014 02:10pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- Not even a month after flatly rejecting a takeover bid by two Brazilian companies, Chiquita softened its stance and will open its books to them.Should Chiquita eventually see eye-to-eye with the investment firm Safra Group and Cutrale Group, a juice company, it could scuttle a propo Chiquita backtracks, opens talks on potential sale 09/10/2014 01:30pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- Not a month after flatly rejecting a takeover bid by two Brazilian companies, Chiquita is softening its stance and will open its books to them.Should Chiquita eventually see eye-to-eye with the investment firm Safra Group and Cutrale Group, a juice company, it could scuttle a tie up 'Real Housewives of New Jersey' house for sale 09/10/2014 11:52am • MONTVILLE, N.J. (AP) -- A member of the "Real Housewives of New Jersey" cast is putting her house on the market.Teresa Giudice (JOO'-dys) and her husband, Joe, are seeking nearly $4 million for the six-bedroom home in Montville.The two are facing federal prison after they pleaded guilty to conspirac Same-sex marriage heading for Supreme Court vote? 09/10/2014 10:30am • MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Both sides in the gay marriage debate agree on one thing: It's time for the Supreme Court to settle the matter.Even a justice recently said she thinks so, too.The emerging consensus makes it likely that the justices soon will agree to take up the ques Philippines plans to give Muslims autonomous zone 09/10/2014 09:40am • JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- The president of the overwhelmingly Catholic Philippines proposed Wednesday to give Muslims in the south the ability to run their own government under their own flag, part of a peace plan aimed at ending a four-decade rebellion that has killed 1