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Solar power eliminates utility bills in U.S. home (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - Michael Strizki heats and cools his house year-round and runs a full range of appliances including such power-guzzlers as a hot tub and a wide-screen TV without paying a penny in utility bills.

Shivering Arizonans may soon be steaming over rising energy bills (The Arizona Republic) - Maricopa County home-heating bills are on the rise due to higher use and a rate increase approved last year. Southwest Gas reports that the typical residential bill now being mailed to customers is about $73.44, compared to $59.22 a year ago.

Interest rates on three-month Treasury bills pass Oct. level (Knoxville News Sentinel) - WASHINGTON - Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills rose in Tuesday's auction with three-month bills climbing to the highest level since October.

Pensioner lives in terror of herfuel bills (Financial Times) - Bridget Mead, 70, from Rochdale, is retired and said the rising cost of household bills was frightening. "The thing that terrifies me the most is fuel bills - they're daft," she said.

Bills would make Ginger Gold apple state fruit (WRIC 8 News Richmond) - LOVINGSTON, Va. A pair of proposed bills would offer recognition to a unique species of Virginia apple borne of a hurricane decades ago. Two bills - H-B...

Shivering Arizonans may soon be steaming over rising energy bills (12 News Phoenix) - Arizona residents shivering through an unseasonably cold January are getting frigid news on another front: more expensive heating bills. Bills now being mailed to Southwest Gas customers will be about 24 percent higher than those mailed out last January.

Storm brews as MSPs face risk to bills (The Herald) - Ministers are heading into a stormy period of legislating, in which several key bills risk falling and others are likely to cause splits in the coalition.

Bills would make Ginger Gold apple state fruit (WDBJ 7 Roanoke) - LOVINGSTON, Va. A pair of proposed bills would offer recognition to a unique species of Virginia apple borne of a hurricane decades ago.

Bills To Restrict Sex Offenders Await Consideration (WMTW Auburn) - The Maine Legislature is preparing to take up a number of bills that seek to clamp restrictions on convicted sex offenders.

Lawmakers Introduce Slew Of Tax-Cut Bills (KETV.com) - LINCOLN, Neb. -- It's tax-cut time in the Legislature. State lawmakers introduced a slew of bills Tuesday aimed at reducing both income and property taxes.