11.   The stations also agreed that none would accept a better deal than was provided to the other two, the department said.

12.   Those contracts, the department said, could amount to an unfair restriction on the ability of other on-line services to have their access software installed by manufacturers.

13.   While consumers and homebuilders did their part, the government weighed in with increased public spending and businesses beefed up investment and built inventories, the department said.

14.   A Miami Police spokesman said the department stood by its description of the tea box.

15.   Although crime is increasing, most of it is not violent, the department said.

16.   Another was injured when he was hit by a brick, the police department said.

17.   Assistant Director of Health Cindy Lai Kit-lim said the department only used the six-week period as a basis.

18.   Department of Health spokeswoman Claire Pospisil said the department, which oversees the Medicaid funding directed to the Beckwith home and its residents, agrees sanctions are needed.

19.   Definitive test results could take four days, the department said, though initial results should be available Friday.

20.   Filipino children will be taught in school about the La Nina weather phenomenon so they will know what to do during severe storms, the education department said Monday.