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Agency Helping Bucks County Libraries Find Overdue Items (KYW News Radio 1060)
The Bucks County Library System is contracting the services of a collection agency that uses a "soft" touch to recover thousands of dollars in overdue books, CDs, DVDs and fines.

Neighborhood Services launches Back to School Fundraiser (Journal Inquirer)
ENFIELD ? Enfield Neighborhood Services invites the public to participate in its annual Back to School Fundraiser. The agency is collecting new back to school supplies to give to children of low-income town residents.

Hemet officials consider partnering with agency to buy, rehab blighted neighborhoods (The Press-Enterprise)
HEMET - Not far from downtown Hemet is a street with a collection of rental duplexes and fourplexes bearing the telltale signs of decline: boarded-up doors and windows, trash and broken liquor bottles strewn about the yards, gang-related graffiti scrawled on the walls, and the stench of human waste wafting throughout.

La. urged to let single agency collect taxes (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
BATON ROUGE -- Louisiana should abandon its hodge-podge system of sales tax collection and vest the function in a centralized state agency, a move that would make it easier for large corporations to pay what they owe, the president of the state's largest business lobby said Monday.

Memories will remain after Bentley School is gone (Journal Inquirer)
MANCHESTER ? Thelma Woodbridge has a little bit of history by her kitchen sink. Inside a clear-glass candy jar, Woodbridge keeps a collection of marbles swirled together in a rainbow of color. Some of the pieces probably date to the mid-1930s when she became an elementary school teacher.

African American center seeks aid for repairs (The Gazette)
Damage to the African American Historical Museum and Cultural Center of Iowa is approximately $720,000, and the museum needs to raise most of that money in order to recover.Insurance will cover $70,000, but Federal Emergency Management Agency benefits for non-profits are usually restricted to debris removal, Museum Director Tom Moore wrote in a letter to museum supporters.Some 90 percent of the ...

Privatized IRS debt collection appears dead (Federal Times)
Opponents of IRS?s privatized debt collection program failed to pass a spending bill last year that would have killed the program. The Bush administration and other supporters argued ? successfully ? that it was needed to collect unpaid taxes.

Debt-collection agency sued by Minnesota attorney general (Post-Bulletin)
ST. PAUL -- Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson has sued an Illinois debt-collection agency for allegedly attempting to collect invalid debts from Minnesotans. She says her office has received more than 50 complaints about Afni,

Canceling contract can be a trial (The Kansas City Star)
I canceled my trial membership at Ozark Fitness way back in January, but itcontinues to send me bills for a contract that I never had. I?ve sent the company letters, and I thought this was resolved until I received another bill this week from a collection agency for $1,023.12 . I?m just a poor college student. I don?t have this kind of money. ? R. K., Blue Springs

City audit of agency remains unfinished (San Diego Union-Tribune)
A city audit of the Southeastern Economic Development Corp. has been delayed repeatedly and ? despite last week's revelations about the agency ? remains weeks from completion. San Diego City Councilman Tony Young asked for the audit in May 2007 in the closing minutes of a daylong council meeting.