IRS audit rates fall for businesses while individual audits rise
A Syracuse University study using IRS data finds audits of corporations, small businesses, and partnerships declined to 2.1 per 1000 while audits of individual returns rose 14 percent to 6.5 per 1000. The report questions the administration’s corporate crackdown amid officials and watchdogs urging higher enforcement.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Service
Syracuse University
IRS
Mark Everson
David Keating
National Taxpayers Union
Kahoolawe Island Heals After 10 Year Cleanup Finish
After decades of bombing the uninhabited Kahoolawe island in Hawaii closes a 10 year 460 million cleanup. Navy hauled last barge load marking a hopeful end to a long history of military use and sacred significance for native Hawaiians.
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Emmett Aluli
Navy
Aluli
Kahoolawe
Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission
Pacific
Pearl Harbor
U.S
George H.W. Bush
Davianna McGregor
University of Hawaii
Kamehameha III
Hawaiian Archipelago
Stanton Enomoto
Gas prices rise 2.5 cents per gallon in two weeks
A nationwide Lundberg survey shows the average price at self serve up to 1.82 per gallon for all grades in the past two weeks. San Diego leads with 2.22 for regular while across the nation prices have climbed as crude costs stay high and refineries shut for maintenance.
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Trilby Lundberg
Lundberg
United States
San Diego
West Coast
Mexican explosion kills six in Nuevo Progreso shopping district
Mexican soldiers and American firefighters search rubble after a gas blast wrecked a two story building and a three level shopping center near the Rio Grande. Six killed, 14 hospitalized as rescue teams use dogs and imaging to find survivors.
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Raul Herrera
Nuevo Progreso
International Bridge
Rio Grande
Mexico
United States
Jacobo Gaytan
Gaytan
Nichols defense shifts strategy in Oklahoma City bombing case
McALESTER Okla AP defense lawyers for Terry Nichols use cross examination of key prosecution witnesses to bolster a theory that unknown coconspirators helped plan the bombing. Prosecutors accuse Nichols of burglarizing a quarry in 1994 to obtain blasting caps and detonation cord used in the 1995 Murrah Building attack that killed 168.
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Okla
Oklahoma City
Terry Nichols
Nichols
Oklahoma
Timothy McVeigh
McVeigh
Oklahoma City Federal
Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
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