More Bad News For The Postal Service
HUFFINGTONPOST.COM - The U.S. Postal Service may be able to deliver your bill payments, but it's having a little trouble delivering its own.
Come Sept. 30, USPS will default on a $5.6 billion payment mandated by Congress to prefund employee retirement benefits, CNNMoney reports. That will be the second time the government agency has defaulted in as many months after missing an August payment worth $5.5 billion.
While mail operations will continue as usual, the second default is
yet another sign of the postal service's increasingly desperate
financial situation. By May of this year it had already lost $6 billion. click here to read more
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NORTHPORT, Wash. - A 22-year-old Eastern Washington University student is facing charges after he organized a party for his fraternity at a Northport lodge that resulted in thousands of dollars in damage. When reserving the lodge, he told the owner it was to host a Washington State University bird watchers club.
>>NORTHPORT, Wash. - A 22-year-old Eastern Washington University student is facing charges after he organized a party for his fraternity at a Northport lodge that resulted in thousands of dollars in damage. When reserving the lodge, he told the owner it was to host a Washington State University bird watchers club.
>>Dad stabbed to death as daughter sits in lap at restaurant
Dad stabbed to death as daughter sits in lap at restaurant
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A homeless man was charged Friday with murder in a random attack on a California father who was stabbed in the neck as his 5-year-old daughter sat in his lap in a crowded beachside steakhouse. Jamal Jackson, 49, was charged with first-degree murder in the death of 35-year-old Anthony Mele. He was being held in Ventura County jail on a $1.5 million bail.
>>LOS ANGELES (AP) - A homeless man was charged Friday with murder in a random attack on a California father who was stabbed in the neck as his 5-year-old daughter sat in his lap in a crowded beachside steakhouse. Jamal Jackson, 49, was charged with first-degree murder in the death of 35-year-old Anthony Mele. He was being held in Ventura County jail on a $1.5 million bail.
>>Police: Woman accidentally shoots and kills young daughter
Police: Woman accidentally shoots and kills young daughter
Human remains found in burned home of Idaho suspect
WICKLIFFE, Ohio (AP) - Police say a 2-year-old girl has been accidentally shot and killed by her mother at a hotel outside of Cleveland. Wickliffe police in a statement say emergency crews were called to an Econo Lodge around 11 p.m. Friday. A police officer and paramedics tried to resuscitate the girl, who was pronounced dead a short time later at a hospital.
>>WICKLIFFE, Ohio (AP) - Police say a 2-year-old girl has been accidentally shot and killed by her mother at a hotel outside of Cleveland. Wickliffe police in a statement say emergency crews were called to an Econo Lodge around 11 p.m. Friday. A police officer and paramedics tried to resuscitate the girl, who was pronounced dead a short time later at a hospital.
>>80-year-old man gets over 20 years in prison for child rape
80-year-old man gets over 20 years in prison for child rape
Escape attempt by convicted Idaho killer fails.
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>>KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) - An 80-year-old man in southeastern Washington has been sentenced to more than 21 years in prison for raping a child. The Tri-City Herald reports William Nicol was sentenced Thursday in Benton County Superior Court. A jury found in 2016 that Nicol violated his position of trust to rape a boy over several years.
>>Couple arrested in Minnesota, accused of killing Spokane boy
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>>'CHiPs' TV star Estrada donates police dog to Idaho agency
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>>ST. ANTHONY, Idaho (AP) - "CHiPs" actor Erik Estrada has donated a drug dog to an east Idaho police agency where he's a reserve police officer. The Rexburg Standard Journal report ed in a story on Friday that the star of the 1970s TV series about California Highway Patrol officers donated a 3-year-old German Shepherd-Malinois narcotics dog named Mako to the St. Anthony Police Department.
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