Senators urged to cut farm subsidy income threshold
Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns told about 150 at the Farm Progress Show in Decatur that the House backed farm bill would lower the subsidy eligibility cap to 1 million dollars a year from 2.5 million, aiming to limit payments as President Bush pushes for stricter limits. He warned the change could affect around 7,000 farms and noted the bill faces a Senate vote amid a 299 billion dollar 2008 2012 spending span.
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U.S. Agriculture Secretary
Farmers Wednesday
U.S. Senate
Farm Progress Show
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Bush
Farm Bureau Federation
Europe
Defense attorney attacks government witnesses in Chicago mob trial
In closing arguments, defense lawyer Joseph Lopez labeled prosecutor Markus Funk's witnesses as hand-picked liars and vowed jurors face a family feud. He criticized Calabrese Sr. and his relatives as exonerated by immunity deals while detailing a conspiracy touching 18 unsolved murders, gambling, loan sharking, and extortion involving Lombardo Schiro Marcello Doyle and others.
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Frank Calabrese Sr
Calabrese
Grim Reaper
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Two teens charged in Pontiac over guns for cocaine deal
In Pontiac two high school students, Sean Sullivan 16 and Martin Huerta Jr. 15, were charged as adults with numerous handgun counts after weapons found in a school locker prompted a lockdown. Huerta faces cocaine possession. both held on $500,000 bond.
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Martin Huerta Jr
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Livingston County
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Jim Woolford
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Martin Huerta
Saunemin
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Woolford
Thomas J. Brown
Brown
Pontiac Township High School
Leo Johnson
Johnson
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