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Niche marketing has come to Internet matchmaking

By BARBARA BRADLEY, Scripps Howard News Service

Editorial: Obama budget lays down battle lines for fall

An editorial / By Dale McFeatters, Scripps Howard News Service

Video: James Cagney's 1932 flick 'Taxi' is quite a ride

By MICK LASALLE, San Francisco Chronicle

Dear TripAdvisor: Claustrophobic without cabin window

By LESLEY CARLIN, TripAdvisor.com

'Southern Discomfort' a tour through early African-American foodways

By GRETCHEN McKAY, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

What's for dinner: No-Bean Beef Chili

By GRETCHEN McKAY, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Braise a ruckus this weekend

By DANIEL NEMAN, Toledo Blade

Historic gold town Yreka, Calif., loses treasures to thieves

By PETER HECHT, Sacramento Bee

Editorial: Valentine's Day, another Western menace

An editorial / By Dale McFeatters, Scripps Howard News Service

'Broken heart' can be physiological, especially in women

By BARBARA BRADLEY, Scripps Howard News Service

DebtAdviser: Can collectors get bank account money?

By STEVE BUCCI, bankrate.com

Pillsbury Bake-Off gets hipper this year

By JANET K. KEELER, Tampa Bay Times

Thomasson: Obama's needless fight with Catholic bishops

By DAN K. THOMASSON, Scripps Howard News Service

Some underwater homeowners get bonuses to move out

By CAROLYN SAID, San Francisco Chronicle

California's green economy lost jobs as recession raged

By DAVID R. BAKKER, San Francisco Chronicle

Romney prompts questions on Mormon views on government

By LEE DAVIDSON, Salt Lake Tribune

Cardinals' Marc Rzepczynski living the dream

By JIM ALEXANDER, The Press-Enterprise

Moulton: Jeremy Lin spurs great headlines, gives us someone to root for

By DAVID MOULTON , Scripps Howard News Service

Fla. teens perform rap song for their 'homeboy' Newt Gingrich

By ISADORA RANGEL, Scripps Howard News Service

DeCock: Son of Hurricanes' Steve Chiasson makes own name on ice

By LUKE DeCOCK, Raleigh News and Observer

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Alex Marvez's weekly look at professional wrestling

By ALEX MARVEZ
Scripps Howard News Service

Apparently, Nancy Benoit may have known her tumultuous marriage to a World Wrestling Entertainment superstar was ultimately doomed.
But neither she nor those close to her could have envisioned it concluding like this, with Chris Benoit murdering his wife and seven-year-old son Daniel last weekend in their Atlanta-area home before committing suicide.

Scripps Howard News Service Sports Budget for Jan. 29, 2007

Scripps Howard News Service's SPORTS sked for stories moving MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 2007. SHNS editors are available at 202-408-1484.

SUPER BOWL XLI:

ALEXANDER (Alexander, The Press-Enterprise _ column) _ Breaking down the Bears-Colts Super Bowl matchup from the size of the cities to the all-important crime blotter comparison. 850.

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Taxing Times

Paying taxes unites us. It also divides us. People can pay five and even six times more in state and local taxes than other folks in similar circumstances making similar incomes.

Taxes unify Americans, but rates vary by state

Identity Theft

Who's got your number?

In one of the fastest-growing forms of identity theft, crooks are stealing tax refunds by swiping personal information and using it to trick the Internal Revenue Service.

Lawmaker offers anti-ID theft law to foil crooks who profit off dead children