Originally Posted Wednesday, December 05, 2012

NEWARK-- New Jersey's Mayor has accepted a Twitter challenge to live on a food stamp budget for a week, which comes out to about $4 dollars a day. Politicians and community leaders around the country have taken on similar challenges in recent years to highlight the difficulty of relying solely on government aid for nutrition.

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• NEW YORK-- The third biggest U.S bank, Citigroup, is cutting more than 11 thousand jobs worldwide. T ...
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• NEWARK-- New Jersey's Mayor has accepted a Twitter challenge to live on a food stamp budget for a we ...
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• FAITH ...
• GRANGER--Authorities in Granger are investigating two instances of graffiti of a nazi and swastika s ...
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• INDIANAPOLIS-- Today‘s State School Board meeting could feature a showdown between the state school ...
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• INDIANAPOLIS-- Federal prosecutors have charged three people with stealing hundreds of cars through ...
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• INDIANAPOLIS-- An Indiana State Senator is being honored for his work with the state's Lifeline Law. ...
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• INDIANA-- Indiana mayors are still suspicious that they‘re not receiving all the local tax revenue t ...
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• INDIANA-- The Flu season is off to an early start this year.. The Centers for Disease Control and Pr ...
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• INDIANA-- No more waiting in long lines to renew your drivers license. The Indiana Bureau of Motor V ...
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• NORTHERN INDIANA/SOUTHWEST MI, (MICHIANA) ...
• PORTAGE-- Construction is underway on the Safety Training Institute in northwest Indiana. The buildi ...
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• ST. JOSEPH-- It's official. The St. Joseph County Council voted in favor to realign Douglas Road. No ...
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• WARSAW-- 60 new jobs are rolling in to Warsaw. Micro Machine Company is a medical device manufacturi ...
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• AUBURN-- In DeKalb county, 43 workers will loose their jobs. Alcoa is closing its Dekalb plant in Ma ...
• Alcoa is closing its DeKalb County plant. The company will lay off 43 workers and stop production in ...
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• ELKHART-- Watch out for a new scam that's making its way around Michiana computers. It's an email th ...
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• NORTHCENTRAL INDIANA ...
• COLUMBUS-- Come July, and smoking will no longer be allowed in any businesses within Columbus City l ...
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• LOGANSPORT-- A 52-year-old Logansport man will appear in court today after he was accused of startin ...
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• CASS COUNTY-- Cass County commissioners agreed Monday to allow snowmobiles in designated areas at Fr ...
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• INDIANAPOLIS-- Hundreds of first responders from across the nation are in Indianapolis this week. Th ...
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• SPORTS ...
• INDIANAPOLIS-- The annual International Motorsports Industry show gets underway today in Indianapoli ...
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• WEATHER ...
• South Bend / Elkhart / Goshen: ...
• Today ... Sunny, with a high near 40 degrees. Thursday ... Partly sunny, near 45. And Friday ... we ...
• Kokomo / Walton / Cass: ...
• Today ... Sunny, with a high near 42. Thursday ... Partly sunny, with a high near 47. Friday ... Rai ...
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