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Beaten down and watching their wealth shrink, Americans are cutting back sharply on their spending, trimming it in September by the largest amount in four years. The Commerce Department reported Friday that consumer spending…

Beaten down, American consumers burrow deeper 

 In many rural areas, people who want high-speed Internet access have only one option: relatively slow and expensive satellite dishes. Now parts of rural Vermont could get a new choice. Phone company FairPoint Communications Inc….

Vermonters to get largest fixed-wireless rollout 

Real Halloween back for long traumatized Pa. town 

The next version of Microsoft Windows, the software that defines the computing experience for most people, will nag users much less than its much-maligned predecessor, Vista. PC users will be able to test the new edition early…

Microsoft says next Windows won’t be as annoying 

The government prepared Monday to move the first batch of bailout money to banks as fretful world markets plunged again. Wall Street ended with a big drop at the closing bell, sending the Dow Jones industrials to their lowest…

First batch of bailout money for banks moving soon 

Tony Hillerman, author of the acclaimed Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels and creator of two of the unlikeliest of literary heroes – Navajo police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee – died Sunday of pulmonary failure. He was 83….

Acclaimed author Tony Hillerman dies at 83 

Standing atop the 400-acre 1-E landfill, you get a panoramic view of the Meadowlands sports complex to the north and the New York City skyline to the east. You’re also standing on a critical part of New Jersey’s, and the…

Kuwait moves to prop up major bank after losses

When Paul Hodges lost his job as a newspaper librarian this summer, he cut back on junk food, canceled his Netflix subscription, went back to his old DVDs and tried to stop buying new ones. “I had to scale back like everyone,”…

Hollywood feeling pinch amid economic worries 

 A campaign volunteer for John McCain told police she was robbed at knifepoint at an ATM and knocked down by a man who then carved a “B” in her face after noticing a sticker for the presidential candidate on her car. Police said…

McCain volunteer claims attacker cut ‘B’ into face