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Bills back education initiatives (The Fayetteville Observer) - RALEIGH — Cumberland County education could go in bold, new directions if bills for expanded programs are included in the state’s 2008-09 budget. One bill provides initial funding for three vocational high school programs across the state to develop careers in technical trades.

Could gas bills be heading for £1,000 a year? (Daily Mail: World News) - The average family gas bills are set to rocket to an average of £1,000 a year - an increase of £400.

Ritter Signs Important Pine Beetle Bills (CBS4 Denver) - More than a million acres of Colorado's lodge pole pines are either dead or dying from the mountain pine beetle. Several new bills signed into law Wednesday will help reduce the fire threat from all the dead timber.

Bills signed to pay wrongly convicted, honor cracker horses (Bradenton Herald) - TALLAHASSEE - Bills to compensate wrongly convicted people, designate two more official state symbols and create four new specialty license plates became law today with Gov. Charlie Crist's signature.

Some West County Residents Question MSD Bills (FOX 2 News St. Louis) - Homeowners in some parts of the St. Louis area continue to be upset about recent bills from MSD. Residents in parts of Wildwood say they are being billed for services they don't receive because they have wells and septic systems. MSD points out that even though the homeowners don't use the sewage system, they still have stormwater runoff that must be managed by the utility company.

Civil rights groups push slate of bills (The News & Observer) - Civil rights groups urged lawmakers Wednesday to approve a group of bills they said will improve workers' rights and reform the state's judicial system.

Household energy bills 'to top £1,500' (Daily Telegraph) - Household energy bills will top £1,500 by the end of next year as families are hit with yet more crippling price increases, industry analysts have warned.

Household gas bills heading for another big leap in price (The Herald) - Gordon Brown is facing the prospect of yet another crisis over fuel after consumer groups warned that average gas bills could jump from £600 to more than £1000.

Local officials pleased efforts for lands bills scrapped (Pahrump Valley Times) - An attempt by U.S. Sens. John Ensign and Harry Reid to enact public lands bills for many counties, like Nye County, are being put on hold due to opposition over proposed wilderness areas, Reid said Friday.

Committees OK bills to release some terminally ill inmates (NBC 15 Mobile) - House and Senate committees have approved bills that would allow Alabama prisons to release some terminally ill inmates.