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H ouse votes to cut food stam pfunding b y nearly $4 billion/ yr.WASHI NGT ON (AP) T heHouse has voted to cut nearly $4billion a year from food stamps, a

5 percent reduction to the nation'smain feeding iirogrem used' bb 'more than 1 in 7 Americans.The bill's savings would beachieved by allowing states to putbroad new work requirements inplace for many food stamp recipi-ents and to test applicants fordrugs. The bill also would endgovernment waivers that haveallowed able-bodied adults with-out dependents to receive foodstamps indefinitely.More than 47 million A meri-cans are now on food stamps, andthe program's cost more thandoubled in the last five years.

N A SA rover finds no hintof m ethane in M ars airLO S ANGE LE S (AP) N ASA'sCuriosity rover hasn't discoveredsigns of methane in the atmos-

phere of Mars, a finding that doesrikit %O de well for the possibilitythat microbes capable of produc-ing the gas could be living belowthe planet's surface, scientistssaid T hursday.Since landing last year, therover has gulped Mars air andscanned it in search of methane.On Earth, most of the gas is abyproduct of life, spewed whenanimals digest or plants decay.Scientists had high hopes that therover would inhale methane afterorbiting spacecraft and Earth-based telescopes detected plumesof the gas several years ago.

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D E R R I C K M I L L E R /T H E D U N C A N B A N N E RTaylor Barrick talks to her Duncan High School peers about the dan-gers of texting and driving.

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a quality speaker, focused onher peers not becoming sta-tistics as a result of textingand driving."A texting driver is 23 per-cent more likely to be in acar accident," Barrick said."D o you want to go throughhigh school as the one whocaused that terrible wreck?A couple of seconds of joyand it causes you a lifetimeof pain. Make the decision:D on't text and drive."The A ir E vac L ife T eam

and the Oklahoma High-way Patrol also participat-ed in the program, sharingtheir stories about first-hand experiences dealingwith accidents caused bytexting and driving.Trooper Will H ayden saidaccidents involving textingand driving are becomingmore common. H e said it'soften easy to determine whenan accident is caused by tex-ting, and he usually looks atthe driver's cell phone first inan investigation.Hayden said accidentsinvolving texting driversare among the most frus-trating because they canusually be avoided.

"It really sucks for me,and your family, for me tohave to tell them you died,"Hayden said.A documentary about theresults of texting and dri-ving accidents, "F rom O neSecond to the N ext", showedseveral families who hadbeen impacted by textingand driving.The program wrappedwith Aubrey Mouser, DH Ssenior, introducing thepledge campaign. Mousersaid people could take thepledgeby textingOK PL E DGE to 464329."Absolutely no text isworth the risk," Mouser said."I t can wait"

CNIE NEWS SERVICEJAY An Oklahoma man is believed to have shotanother man in the back while twirling a handgunon his finger like a cowboy as he was riding in thebackseat of a car.The shooting happened T uesday in D elawareCounty, Okla., near the Arkansas state line. I t wasinitially reported to sheriff's deputies as a robbery,said D elaware Count Sheriff's Department CaptGayle Wells.Wells said Rusti J ames, 21, was brought to anArkansas hospital with a small-caliber gunshotwound to the lower left side of his back. James andhis girlfriend, Marion Snell, 23, initially said thatthey had picked up a hitchhiker who tried to robthem and shot James, according to Wells.They told authorities that the hitchhiker got outof their car and fled after the shooting. Deputies

searched the area but didn't find a suspect.But when detectives interviewed the couple asecond time, they confessed that that they hadmade up the hitchhiker story because they wereafraid of the actual shooter, who they identified as

Showdown : H ouse to voteon stopgap funding billWASHI NGT ON (AP) Con-gressional Republicans strug-gled to tamp down a feud Thurs-

day as they approached a politi-cally charged showdown withthe White House that combinesthe threat of a government shut-down, a possible first-ever feder-al default and the GO P's bid torepeal the nation's three-year-old health care law.O ne day after conceding thatthe Democratic-controlled Senateprobably would prevail on the lastpart, Sen. Ted Cruz vowed to do"everything and anything possi-ble to defund O bamacare." T hatincludes a possible filibuster oflegislation to prevent a shutdown,added the Texas Republican.

20-year-old Johnathan W. Gardner of Colcord,Okla.According to Wells, the couple said Gardnerand his girlfriend, K atie Jo J enks, had been ridingin the back seat of their car, with Snell drivingand James in the front passenger seat Gardnerand James were playng with a small handgun,passing it back and forth and twirling it "cowboystyle," Wells said.Gardner was playing with the gun when it dis-charged, and the bullet passed through the frontseat into the back of James, he said.The couple told investigators that after theshooting, Gardner threw the gun into a ravinealong the side of the road. Gardner and Jenks gotout of their car and walked away, and Snell droveJames to the hospital.Police found Gardner about 30 miles away nearJay, Okla., and arrested him Tuesday night.Authorities planned to charge Gardner who hasprior convictions for drug and robbery charges with possession of a firearm as a felon.Details for this story were reported by theJoplin (Mo) G lobe.

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D ear A bby: My fatheradmitted to having anaffair a few years ago. A tthe time, my mother wasvery upset and threat-ened to leave, but some-how they worked it outHowever, he is still seeingthis woman. They talk onthe phone for hours, andhe visits her house fre-quently, leaving mymother alone for extend-ed periods of time.When I ask my motherwhy they are still in con-tact, she doesn't want totalk about it, and myfather seems to think heisn't doing anythingwrong. Normally Iwouldn't get involved, butI'm worried about mymother's health, whichwasn't quite great tobegin with and has gonedownhill since this allstarted. I s there anythingI can do in this situation? Worried About MomDear Worried: Itappears your parentsmade a deal with eachother he would live hisown life and they wouldremain married. Becauseit is affecting your moth-er's health, suggest thatshe discuss this with herphysician and perhapsget a referral to a thera-pist who can provide herwith emotional supportduring this difficult time.I f she agrees, it could helpher physically and emo-

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tionally because stressand depression havebeen known to make peo-ple sick.Dear Abby: My hus-band and I have beentogether for 13 years. Welive in the country withlivestock. I was taught toremove my shoes when Ientered my house, espe-cially since I was raisedon a farm. My husbandwasn't required to do thesame as he was growingup.I have asked him forthe last 10 years to kindlytake his shoes off whenhe comes in so he won'ttrack dirt, mud, manure,etc. into the house. He

absolutely RE FUSE S. Ihave explained my rea-sons repeatedly and toldhim it hurts my feelingsand makes me feel disre-spected. He still won't doit Can you please tell mewhy? Am I being toodemanding? Tired of Walking onGrit and PoopDear Tired: I don'tthink so. Your reasons forwanting his dirty shoesoff seem sensible to me.From where I sit, itappears your husbandcares little for your feel-ings, isn't concernedabout any extra work hecreates and stopped lis-tening to you 10 yearsago. You have my sympa-thy, and I sincerely hopehe has some virtues thatcompensate for his selec-tive deafness.Dear Abby i s wr i t t en by Abi -ga i l Van Buren, a l so knownas Jeanne Ph il l ip s . Wr i teDea r Abby a t www.Dea rAb-by.com or P.O. Box 69440,Los Ange l es , CA 90069.

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