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A report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services indicates that a Monroe County resident 24 years old could pay $274 in monthly costs for the lowest “silver” grade policy, 42 percent more than a Miami-Dade resident. Health-care professionals point to possible factors: Studies show Monroe residents overall tend to have more unhealthy behaviors…

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28– The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Illinois. ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28– Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent developed by five co-inventors for a “support for wide area networks and local area peer-to-peer networks.” The co-inventors are Rajiv Laroia, Far Hills, N.J., Junyi Li, Bedminster, N.J., Tom Richardson, South…

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28– The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Texas. ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28– Chevron Phillips Chemical, The Woodlands, Texas, has been assigned a patent developed by eight co-inventors for “methods of removing a protective layer.” The co-inventors are Dennis L. Holtermann, Conroe, Texas, Tin-Tack Peter Cheung, Kingwood, Texas,…

Targeted News Service Targeted News Service. ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28– The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Massachusetts. ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28– ChemGenes, Wilmington, Mass., has been assigned a patent developed by Suresh C. Srivastava, Burlington, Mass., and Naveen P. Srivastava, Burlington, Mass., for “phosphoramidites for synthetic RNA in the…

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28– The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Connecticut. ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28– Concentrate Manufacturing Co. of Ireland, Hamilton, Bermuda, has been assigned a patent developed by four co-inventors for a “beverage products having steviol glycosides and at least one acid.” The co-inventors are Pei K. Chang, Cortlandt Manor,…

Sept. 28– TAMPA– A new building permit issued in Lakeland is fueling speculation that Amazon will build two warehouses in the greater Tampa Bay area, not just one in Ruskin. For example, the limited liability company that owns the County Line Road property in question shares an address with insurance giant USAA’s real estate division, state corporation records…

The Iowa Republican has made no secret of his opposition to the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, for the past four years. The U.S. Senate passed the continuing resolution Friday afternoon, without Grassley’s support and stripped of the U.S. House- added provisions that would have defunded the Affordable Care Act. The Senate passed the measure Friday on a…

President Obama, in a sweeping address to the United Nations General Assembly, challenged the international body to take “strong” action against Syria’s use of chemical weapons or risk becoming irrelevant. In his first broad foreign policy speech since an Aug. 21 chemical attack carried out by the regime of Bashar Assad, Obama forcefully urged the U.N. Security…

Mike Lee, R- Utah, circulated a letter and 14 signed on to his plan to either defund Obamacare or force the federal government to close, most prominently Sen. For two weeks in July, Lee vetted the defund-or-shutdown strategy with about a dozen Senate conservatives. He informed the rest of his Republican colleagues of the plan in weekly party lunches, personal emails,…

Vehicles score best at front-end safety. The Cadillac ATS and SRX, Subaru Legacy and Outback, Mercedes C- Class, and Volvo S60 and XC60 won “superior” ratings from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Consumers’ spending on goods and services rose 0.3 percent in August, the Commerce Department said Friday.

LET NATURE CLEAN THE BEACHES. Unfortunately, we in Willoughby and Ocean View do not get to beachcomb for such gifts, due to the massive beach-cleaning machines that rake up everything washed onto the beach. If the city of Norfolk wants to save money, how about ditching those machines?

On Tuesday, millions of people in Florida and across the United States will, for the first time, be able to log online and comparison-shop for individual health insurance coverage under the new federal law. The healthcare.gov site will prompt users to input information like age, location, gender, Social Security number and current policy number.

The Orange Jaycees have announced the 65th Annual Christmas Parade will take place beginning at 6:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 6, through the streets of Orange. The parade entrants will lineup in the parking lot of the old Sears location on MacArthur Drive and travel east to Green Avenue into downtown Orange, where the parade route will conclude at Fourth Street.

Eighteen years of protecting and serving the citizens as a San Antonio Police officer, has placed her in harm’s way and face-to-face with some of the area’s most ruthless criminals. Yet, when she talks about her niece, M’cetz Michelle Orosco, and her upcoming fundraiser on Sept. 14, Officer Orosco’s dark sunglasses can’t hide the tears filling her eyes as they roll…

Sept. 28– John Ferretti, D.O., offers two perspectives on the Affordable Care Act. As a practicing physician, Ferretti said he is concerned payments for treating all of these newly insured patients won’t cover the expense. As the president of the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ferretti is excited about how health-care reform will increase the need for…

Sept. 28– Lisa Kelleher is finding more questions than answers when it comes to the Affordable Care Act and what it means for the low-income Erie residents she sees at St. Paul’s Neighborhood Free Clinic. Kelleher, the agency’s director, said she also doesn’t know what to expect when open enrollment for the Health Insurance Marketplace debuts Tuesday.

Since July 1, Thurston has received $2,000 from the Merced City Firefighters Association, $1,020 from himself, $1,000 from Shannon Pump Co. in Merced, $500 from Lourenco Dairy in Atwater, $500 from Merced property manager Virginia Baker, $500 from the Association of Builders and Contractors and 28 other contributions under $500 each. Those expenses were:…

Gregg Spindler and his wife, Susan, are professional statisticians in Cazenovia, N.Y. Their daughter and her co-worker were killed in July by a drunken driver as the two of them walked across a hotel parking lot in Pickstown. “In South Dakota, my daughter’s blood is in that parking lot,” he said. ” We have a blood-tie to the Spindler’s get-tough message runs counter to a…

Sept. 28– SANDWICH– A former Sandwich High School football player has filed a $1 million federal lawsuit against the town, saying his civil rights were violated. Ty McGrath and his mother, Julianne, filed the suit in U.S. District Court in Boston on Thursday, contending that the police and the school department violated his rights in what turned out to be inflated…