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allow it to eliminate Saturday mail delivery and reduce its $5 billion annual payment for future retiree health benefits. Since the House failed to act, the post office says it's been seeking to reassure anxious customers that service will not be disrupted, even with cash levels running perilously low.
• "Absolutely, we would be profitable right now," Donahoe told The Associated Press, when asked whether congressional delays were to blame for much of the postal losses, expected to reach a record $15 billion this year.
• He said the two missed payments totaling $11.1 billion for future retiree health benefits -- payments ordered by Congress in 2006 that no other government agency or business is required to make -- along with similar expenses make up the bulk of the annual loss. The remainder is nearly $3 billion in losses, he said, which would have been offset by savings if the service had been allowed to move to five-day mail delivery.
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Police say gunman killed 4 people in Minneapolis sign business before fatally shooting himself
• MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A gunman killed four people inside a Minneapolis sign-making business before turning the weapon on himself, authorities said early Friday.
• Officers summoned Thursday afternoon by a 911 call discovered the victims' bodies shortly after arriving at Accent Signage Systems Inc., located in a residential area in the city's north side, according to a statement from police spokesman Sgt. Stephen McCarty.
• "When officers arrived and entered the business to assist with the evacuation of employees, give aid to the victims and to search for the suspect, they found four victims dead from apparent gunshot wounds," the statement said.
• Four other people were wounded, including three critically.
• No details were released about the gunman, other than he was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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Man in Conn. fatally shoots masked teen outside neighbor's home, learns it's his son
• NEW FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) -- During what appeared to be an attempted late-night burglary, a man fatally shot a masked teenager in self-defense outside his neighbor's house and then discovered it was his son, state police said.
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