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Sears to Launch New Off-Mall Stores

NEW YORK – Sears, Roebuck & Co. (S) Tuesday announced the launch of its new off-mall store format, which the retailer hopes will position it for steady sales growth ahead as it integrates its operations with those of Kmart Holdings Corp. (KMRT). The new mid-sized store format is called Sears …

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Taxpayers to Pay Majority of Health Care Costs

U.S. taxpayers will directly shoulder half of the nation’s health care costs by the end of the next decade, according to federal cost estimates released Wednesday. The figures show that spending on Medicare and Medicaid will grow at roughly 7 percent to 8 percent per year until 2014, when the …

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Idaho Outlaw to Be Freed From Jail

OWYHEE COUNTY, Idaho – Idaho’s most infamous outlaw, Claude Dallas (search), killed two state officers in a remote desert 24 years ago in a crime that brought him notoriety as both a callous criminal and a modern-day mountain man at odds with the government. Now a bespectacled 54-year-old, Dallas is …

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