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Staff Writer
Joanne Walmer of Country Club Drive stopped at Jean Marcellus' roadside produce stand Tuesday for tomatoes.
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A wife is not entitled to "innocent spouse" relief for a joint tax return on which her husband underreported income from a family business, because she was actively involved in the business and had access to its records, the U.S. Tax Court has ruled.
A wife retired and helped her husband run a family business, which provided casino game nights for customers. Both spouses considered it to be primarily the husband's business, but the wife worked some of the jobs, answered business calls and did mailings.
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GALENA, Ill. - Todd Arno walks shoeless around his Main Street store in Galena, smiling as he labels glass, points out his latest line - aromatherapy candles - and explains that his favorite scent is "Country Rain.
To friends, it's an unlikely scene. Last they heard, Todd, 37, had declared war on candles, and banned them from his home.
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EUREKA - For the last 20 months, John and Torri Ferguson of Gibson City have worked two jobs, raised teenagers, and spent their weekends in college classes.
We loved it," she said. "The hardest part was being away every other weekend missing the kids' games. There were times it was overwhelming. We took one step at a time.
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In Overland, the Trueblood family was doing its best to get by. Husband John worked two jobs to support the family, and his wife, Cheryl, stayed at home to take care of their three kids.
Times got tougher for the family when John lost his second job. As a cook at a local restaurant, he brought home about $200 each week. As a warehouse worker for a grocery store, John earned about $20 an hour and worked overtime a few times a month, but the Truebloods already had to miss some bills to pay others.
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Estate planning also helps in drawing out misplaced assumptions. [Peter B. Grimm] cites the example of couples that are naming executors of their trust or guardians for their children. "A lot of times in a conversation I have with a husband and a wife, they end up jumping around several times between people for these various jobs," says Grimm, "and a lot of people don't fully realize what the duties are.
Gary Mazart, partner at the Morristown law firm of Schenck, Price, Smith & King and chair of its tax, trust and estate department, says estate planning is useful also "in creating a management system" in the event of a disability. Childbirth and divorce are two classic situations that make people think of estate planning, says Peter B. Grimm, partner at the Ocean law firm of Ansell...
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Buffalo may be one of the poorest cities in America, but a majority of the region's poor now live in suburbia.
Of the 159,000 people in the region living below the poverty line, more than half -- 52 percent -- reside in the suburbs of Erie and Niagara counties, according to an analysis of 2010 census data by a Washington, D.C.-based think tank.
... city, the loss of high-paying manufacturing jobs, the growth of low-wage service jobs and the agin...Both the husband and wife had lost their jobs and had sent resume...
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Ola Mae Martin Holbrook, 94, of Blacksburg, passed away on June 5, 2011. Ola had previously lived in Wilson, North Carolina for many years and made Warm Hearth Village in Blacksburg her home after her husband's death in 1991. She lived independently at Warm Hearth Village until March 2009. At the time of her death, Ola was a resident of Kroontje Health Care Center at Warm Hearth. Ola was born on April 5, 1917 to Maynard Clice Martin and Pearle Johnson Martin in Waynesboro, Tennessee. Born the eldest of four children, Ola worked hard to keep her two brothers, Verna and Thomas J, and her sister, Mary Jane together after the early deaths of their father and mother. Ola had many jobs in her lifetime but she was most proud of her jobs as a switchboard operator for Bell South Telephone in Atl...
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Arts & Money Last of a four-part series on how the arts are faring during the recession.
Kanawha Players struggles to finish renovations in an old East End church it bought a few years back.
...The husband-and-wife team worked full-time jobs elsewhere in t...
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HELP's oveseas expansion will, like its domestic venture, be guided by the same vision and passion of its founding fathers.
SETTING up HELP University College and taking it to where it is has been the life work of husband-and-wife team Datuk Dr Paul Chan Tuck Hoong, 68, and Datin Chan-Low Kam Yoke, 66. They left their well-paid jobs - he in academia and she in banking - to pursue their vision of helping people through education.