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September 2013
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Audit: Bureau lost track of 420 million cigarettes
Dozens of cigarette-sale stings carried out by ATF agents lacked oversight, investigators say.
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Posted inBusiness
Afraid of your device? Amazon has an answer
The company’s newest Kindles come equipped with ‘Mayday,’ an interactive link to customer services.
Posted inNation & World, News
New C-notes a challenge for counterfeiters
The updated $100 bills, which have undergone a major makeover, are set to enter circulation Oct. 8.
Posted inBusiness
Mobile ads give Facebook a lift
Shares hit new highs as analysts tout a new advertising potential and pending changes in China.
Posted inNation & World
World Dispatches
DALBADI, Pakistan Quake survivors scrounge for food, shelter, medical aid Survivors built makeshift shelters with sticks and bedsheets Wednesday, a day after their mud houses were flattened in an earthquake that killed 285 people in southwestern Pakistan. While waiting for help to reach remote villages, hungry people dug through the rubble to find food. And […]
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New York City may ban social media checks by employers
NEW YORK – After three rounds of interviews, Sarah De Stefano felt good about her prospects of landing her first job as a lawyer — until she hesitated when told to add a background-check investigator as a Facebook friend. He’d seen her sparse public page and wanted to go through the pictures and posts she […]
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Allstate plans to expand in Maine
An official with the insurance company says Maine’s ‘strong economy’ is prompting the growth.
Posted inLife & Culture
This Week in GO
Juston McKinney’s down-home comedy / Movies: Ron Howard’s ‘Rush’ and Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s ‘Don Jon’ / Camden International Film Festival / Osher Map Library: ‘To the Ends of the Earth … and Back’ / Woodsmen’s Filed Day in Fryeburg / Neo-burlesque performers reveal their artistry
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New England Dispatches
School bus driver pulled off job for allegedly texting / Man mutilated in nightclub fight seeks prosthetic ear … and more news from around the region.