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Medicaid Money Can Now Pay for Sex Change Operations in New Hampshire

Matthew McDonald

A committee of the New Hampshire legislature approved on a 6-4 vote new rules allowing poor people receiving Medicaid to get "gender reassignment" surgery paid for with tax dollars. The full legislature may eventually take up the matter.

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Man Tells of Losing $500,000+ At Keno

Matthew McDonald

The resident of Haverhill, Massachusetts says that when he won $1 million from a scratch ticket in 2003, it not only didn't solve his financial problems, it made them worse. He sold his right to yearly payouts for about half the face value, then lost all of it and even more during marathon sessions of keno.

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