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Bills' Early Season Optimism Just a Memory (New York Times) - The Bills are 4-9, having lost six of their last seven games while raising significant questions about the franchise's future.

Schools Feel Pinch Of Rising Utility Bills (Washington Post) - Just a few months after being battered by rising gas prices, school systems around the region and across the country are grappling with a new wrinkle: higher than anticipated heating and utility bills.

Homeowners insurance bills will increase to cover borrowing plan (Houma, Louisiana Newspaper - The Courier) - BATON ROUGE, La. - Homeowners around Louisiana will face larger insurance bills to help cover the borrowing a state-created insurance company will do to pay for insured home damage after hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Higher Ed board rejects using certain money for fuel bills (Grand Forks Herald) - BISMARCK, N.D. - The state Board of Higher Education will not use money from so-called equity payments or funds set aside to recruit international students to help colleges and universities with skyrocketing heating bills.

Granholm signs wine-shipping bills; Cox says some of new law may be unconstitutional (Crain's Detroit Business) - Gov. Jennifer Granholm has signed bills that allow Michigan and non-Michigan wineries to ship to individual consumers. The bills represent an accord reached between Michigan wineries and the companies that distribute their products, and set up a structure and rules for direct shipping.

Bills Turn to Holcomb Again As Starter (AP via Yahoo! News) - Kelly Holcomb will start for the Buffalo Bills at quarterback against Denver on Saturday in place of the injured J.P. Losman.

4th graders pass counterfeit bills (The Indianapolis Star) - GARY, Ind. — Police found several discarded counterfeit bills in the home of one of three fourth-graders arrested at school carrying phony bills, officials said.

'Dont taint RP win with bills' (INQ7.net) - SAYING unpaid bills should not taint the "luster of RP's overall supremacy," the Philippine Southeast Asian Games Organizing Committee yesterday assured it will not renege on its responsibility to pay the P23 million incurred in Bacolod and Cebu, which hosted key events of the biennial meet.

Phony $5 Bills Traced To Central Fla. Man's Computer (WKMG Local6.com via Yahoo! News) - A man in Eustis, Fla., is accused of creating phony $5 bills on a computer and then using them to pay for fast food at a McDonald's restaurant in Mount Dora, Fla., according to a police news release.

Police: Counterfeit bills floating around Benton (Benton Courier) - Benton police advise local businesses to be aware of counterfeit bills. Since August, Detective Patrick Baker said, police have received 14 reports of counterfeit bills.