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Insurance costs irk South Bend school workers
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND -- These days, South Bend schools bus driver Linda Frick feels like she's working primarily to buy health insurance. She's paying more than $300 every two weeks for the nine months she's employed for coverage for herself and her husband for...Tags: Insurance, Health and Safety at School, Hospitals and Clinics, Health Insurance Cost, Crime, Law and Justice
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State: Shops should take Black Friday precautions
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Department of Labor is encouraging retailers to take precautions to ensure employees and shoppers are safe during "Black Friday" sales and other major shopping days. The department says a lack of adequate crowd...
Tags: Employment, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Employment Opportunities, Career and Workplace
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Prescription Addiction: A growing epidemic
WSBT-TV ReporterIt’s a shocking statistic impacting lots of local families – last year in St. Joseph County, more people died from accidental drug overdoses than in car accidents. Many of those deaths were caused by prescription drugs. It’s a...Tags: Alprazolam (drug), Addiction, Pain, Morphine (drug), Symptoms
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Better off 4 years later? A mixed bag of answers
It's a staple of every presidential election, a single question that puts the incumbent's record on trial and asks American voters to be the jurors. "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" Ronald Reagan asked in 1980 at the end of a...
Tags: Finance, Mitt Romney, Republican Party, Foreclosures, The Washington Post
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Michigan company wins round in health law dispute
DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit-area company challenging the federal health care law's mandated contraception coverage won an early round in its lawsuit against the Obama administration. U.S. District Judge Robert Cleland issued a preliminary injunction...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Freedom of the Press, Employment Opportunities, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws
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Push for healthier truckers gains momentum
DALLAS (AP) — In the months after Doug Robinson started driving a truck, he noticed his clothes were increasingly more snug-fitting. He was already overweight but soon realized that spending up to 11 hours behind the wheel, frequently eating fast...Tags: Healthy Diet, Health Insurance Cost, Heart Problems, Vehicles, Career and Workplace
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Board: BP missed the big hazard issues in spill
WASHINGTON (AP) — BP focused too much on the little details of personal worker safety instead of the big systemic hazards that led to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill and wasn't as strict on overall safety when drilling rigs involved other...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Mexico, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Environmental Issues, Bob Graham
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Indy man dies in dump-truck accident at apartments
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Police say an Indianapolis man was crushed to death beneath the bed of a truck while working at an apartment complex's parking lot. Indianapolis police spokesman Kendale Adams tells The Indianapolis Star (http://indy.st/MkmEuX )...Tags: Accidental Death, Occupational Safety and Health Administration
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Indiana fines bridge contractor $10K in man's death
MADISON, Ind. (AP) — Indiana regulators have fined a construction company $10,000 for violations found following the death of an Ohio River bridge worker. Fifty-year-old Roger Cox of Austin, Ind., died in May after becoming trapped between an...Tags: Punishment, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Ohio River, Fines
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Notre Dame students circulate petition opposing HHS lawsuit
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND — Some University of Notre Dame students are circulating a petition opposing the university’s decision to sue over the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ healthcare mandate. Philosophical and legal arguments favor...Tags: Insurance, Religion and Belief, Health and Safety at School, University of Notre Dame, Family
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House acts to stop rules for child labor on farms
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Tuesday barred the labor secretary from imposing new safety rules for children working on farms, putting a legal stamp on a Labor Department decision to put off action on the rules. The Labor Department announced last...Tags: Washington, DC, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Lynn C. Woolsey, Tom Latham
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Health officials focus on implementation
South Bend Tribune Staff WriterThe United States Supreme Court's decision to uphold the health care law means that medical professionals and health care advocates now have some certainty. They also have a lot of work to do. By a 5-4 decision, the court ruled that the Patient...Tags: Insurance, Hospitals and Clinics, Parent Organizations, Health Insurance Cost, Crime, Law and Justice
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