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WASHINGTON – Lambasting the Bush administration for lax protection at U.S. seaports, House lawmakers acted on Thursday to increase spending on port security by $448 million more than this year. The money was part of a $32 billion spending plan for the Homeland Security Department. Earlier this year, the administration …

Eight people were arrested Tuesday in raids by Spanish police as part of an ongoing fraud investigation involving two prominent stamp collection companies. The companies, Forum Filatelico and Afinsa Bienes Tangibles, are accused of defrauding nearly 200,000 mostly retired investors in a pyramid scheme involving overvalued stamps. Afinsa Bienes Tangibles …

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. – A Labrador retriever rescued a 9-year-old survivor of Hurricane Katrina from a river after the boy’s raft hit a log and he fell overboard, authorities said. Ryan Rambo, 9, whose family moved to this western Colorado town last year after the hurricane struck their Marrero, La., …