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Electric Bills To Jump 19 Percent (WKMG Local6.com via Yahoo! News) - The Florida Public Service Commission approved a request by Florida Power and Light Co. to drastically increase customers' electric bills, beginning Jan. 1.

Bills brace for run-happy Chiefs (Covers.com) - ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- All the Buffalo Bills need do to learn what the run-happy Kansas City Chiefs are like without Priest Holmes is look at last weekend. Time running out. Ball at the Oakland 1. Larry Johnson dives over the pile for ...

Bills Pick Up Ground (R News) - Without playing last week the Buffalo Bills moved up in the standings. While Buffalo players rested on their bye week, the rest of the AFC East was losing. The Bills moved to within a game of division leading New England and returned to work with renewed optimism.

Finance Committee Assails Legal Bills (Vineyard Gazette) - West Tisbury town officials this week brought mounting assessors' legal bills under intense scrutiny during a flurry of last-minute meetings before the Nov. 16 special town meeting where voters will be asked to approve more than a quarter-million dollars in legal expenses.

Congressman Eyes Firewood to Lower Bills (Builder Online) - WASHINGTON - A California congressman, saying there's no easy solution to the huge heating bills facing many people this winter, wants to make it cheaper to cut firewood in national forests.

Panel to weigh $125 million state pension bailout bills (Billings Gazette) - HELENA -- An interim legislative panel will consider two draft bills later this month that call for using $125 million of the state's projected budget surplus to bail out Montana's financially troubled retirement programs for public employees.

Md. lawmaker to resubmit 'upskirting' bills (Baltimore Sun) - Measures would expand privacy protections to outlaw invasive photos, videos Bills that would ban taking and distributing so-called "upskirt" and "downblouse" photos without consent will be introduced again during next year's legislative session, a Maryland lawmaker announced today.

Heat bills may cool winter travel (Miami Herald) - Soaring heat bills should put a chill on Americans' vacation plans this winter, according to a travel forecast released Tuesday. Americans will pay between 30 percent and 50 percent more to heat their homes than they did last winter, and that extra expense is bound to pinch travel budgets, according to the Travel Industry Association of America.

Oil prices contribute to high Entergy bills (KPLC) - The holidays are almost here, but with the recent electricity bills everyone's been receiving, it may look slim under the Christmas tree this year. Time is running out for Tammy Chevis. "I don't know what I'm gonna do," Chevis said.

Sen. Burr introduces two bills to help veterans (The Herald-Sun) - U.S. Sen. Richard Burr introduced two bills to help veterans -- one that would help prevent homelessness among veterans and another that would help them find benefits for which they're eligible.