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It May Take Longer To Get Your Tax Return

01.09.13 | Sarah Harnisch

Delays in Congress finalizing tax laws led to the IRS not accepting electronic returns for processing until February 1st. Accountants tell Family Life News this year could be frustrating for anyone preparing their tax returns because of the tax ...

Washington National Cathedral To Start Hosting Same Sex Weddings

01.09.13 | Sarah Harnisch

The church is among the first Episcopal congregations in the country to offer the weddings in its building. It's one of the nation's most prominent churches at 106 years old, the place where President Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford were inaugurated, ...

Holding Our Breath On Low Gas Prices

01.08.13 | Bob Price

Motorists are hoping 2013 doesn't take too much of a bite out of their wallet. Gasoline now averages $3.30 a gallon nationally, up about half a penny since the first of the year a year ago, gas rose about 10 cents in the first week of the new year. ...

Hobby Lobby Takes Stand Against U.S. Supreme Court

12.28.12 | Sarah Harnisch

The Christian craft store chain says it will not comply with the court mandate that they offer abortive healthcare to all employees as of January 1st, or face a 1.3 million dollar daily fine. The store was not granted an exemption to the new HHS ...

U.S. Supreme Court Rules Against Hobby Lobby

12.27.12 | Sarah Harnisch

It was a bad day for Christian craft store Hobby Lobby. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued an order Wednesday refusing to block enforcement of the 2010 healthcare overhaul which begins next week. It means the arts and crafts chain ...

Tax Break Might Affect Health Contributions

12.26.12 | Sarah Harnisch

Congress might start taxing your health contributions. It is the single biggest tax break allowed by the government, outstripping the mortgage interest deduction and the deduction for charitable giving. About one in two Americans currently pay no ...

Hobby Lobby Forced To Comply With HHS Mandate As Of January 1st

12.21.12 | Sarah Harnisch

A federal appeals court has ruled the Obama Administration can force Christian craft store Hobby Lobby to obey the HHS mandate. The law that requires faith based companies to offer abortive care to employees. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ...

A Day Of Silence

12.20.12 | Sarah Harnisch

Upstate New York and Pennsylvania will pause at 9:30 Friday morning to remember the victims at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Steuben County Legislature Chairman Joe Hauryski proclaimed Friday a day of mourning and requested the whole state to join ...

Sandy Hook Elementary School Principal And Counselor Have Local Ties

12.19.12 | Sarah Harnisch

There were two central figures in the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting that tried to stop the gunman before he entered the school; both were from the Family Life listening area. School principal, Dawn Hochsprung, was from Towanda, Pennsylvania, and ...

Forget Hunger. Our Biggest Battle Is Obesity.

12.14.12 |

The obesity crisis is now bigger then the global hunger crisis. A report published in the British Medical Journal cited nearly 500 researchers from 50 countries, who compared health data from 1990 through 2010. And with the exception of those in ...

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