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WellPoint Foundation Provides $10,000 to Aid in Relief Efforts in Kansas

The WellPoint Foundation, a private, non-profit organization wholly funded by WellPoint, Inc., the parent company of UniCare Health Plan of Kansas, Inc. (UniCare), is providing a $10,000 grant to the American Red Cross North Central Kansas to aid in the recovery efforts following a series of large tornadoes which tore through sections of northeast Kansas earlier this month.

NBA Star Set to Marry for 13th Time in Lavish Ceremony Atop World Famous Space Needle

NBA star Doug Christie and his wife, Jackie, are planning to marry yet again on Tuesday, July 8th in Seattle, Washington in a lavish ultra private ceremony. This will be the 13th wedding for the power couple who have made this a family tradition.

AEGON and Right To Play Announce Global Partnership

AEGON N.V. and the international humanitarian organization Right To Play announce a new global partnership to extend the organization's mission to help children in deprived areas of Sudan, Uganda, Ghana and China. AEGON N.V. has donated EUR 1 million as part of a three year partnership that will extend through the 2010 Winter Olympic games in Vancouver, Canada.

/C O R R E C T I O N -- PMI Mortgage Insurance Co./

PMI Mortgage Insurance Co., the primary U.S. subsidiary of The PMI Group, Inc. (NYSE: PMI), today released its Summer 2008 U.S. Market Risk Index(SM), which ranks the nation's 50 largest metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) according to the likelihood that home prices will be lower in two years. The U.S. Market Risk Index shows risk further diverged along two distinctly different paths during the first quarter of 2008, continuing a trend that began in the fourth quarter of 2007. In general, risk continued to intensify in many of the MSAs where home price growth had significantly exceeded historical norms during the housing boom, but continued to decline in many other areas across the country.

Regence Wins Four International Telly Awards for Health and Wellness Videos

Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon announces that it has won four bronze (second-place) Telly Awards for health and wellness videos it created and produced for myRegence.com, a health-focused Web site for Regence members. The Telly Awards are widely considered to be the Emmys of non-news and advertising video production, and Regence's videos were selected from more than 14,000 entries worldwide.

Pennsylvania Medical Society and AARP Criticize Senator Specter for Blocking Bill to Protect Access to Doctors and Improve Medicare

Gridlock has paralyzed the U.S. Senate, derailing a critical bipartisan bill that would have stopped a 10 percent cut to doctors who treat Medicare patients, kept Medicare premiums fair, and made significant improvements to a program that 44 million Americans depend on.

Advocate Newspaper Knowingly Publishes False Information About Louisiana Law Regarding Teaching of Evolution, Says Discovery Institute

The Advocate newspaper in Baton Rouge Louisiana today published a front page story about Louisiana's new law regarding teaching of evolution that contains a completely false statement in the lead.

Monarch Financial Completes Private Offering and Raises $7.2 Million in Common Stock

Monarch Financial Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: MNRK), parent of Monarch Bank, announced that effective on June 30, 2008, it had sold $2.1 million of common stock in the second closing of a private placement in which it sold a total of 774,110 shares of common stock with gross proceeds of $7.2 million in additional equity capital. The first closing of the private placement was announced on June 10, 2008. In this placement, accredited investors purchased 704,309 shares at $9.25 per share, a discount to current market price to reflect the restrictions placed on the newly issued shares, and members of the corporate board of directors and senior management purchased 69,801 shares at $9.90 per share, the closing price of the Company's common stock on June 6, 2008, which, in accordance with NASDAQ guidelines on purchases by company insiders, is considered to be the market value of purchased shares. Monarch sold the private placement to local investors, institutional investors, board members, and members of management.

AARP, Texas Medical Association Join Forces to Urge Passage of Bill Protecting Access to Doctors and Improving Medicare

AARP Texas joined forces today with the Texas Medical Association to urge Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn to reconsider and support a bipartisan bill that would stop a 10.6 percent cut to doctors who treat Medicare patients, keep Medicare premiums fair, and make significant improvements to a program that 44 million Americans depend on.

To Assist Those Impacted by Disastrous Midwest Storms and Floods in Missouri, Five AXA Financial Insurance Companies Relax Grace Period for Policy Premiums

In an effort to assist in the relief for victims of the Midwest flooding disaster, five AXA Financial, Inc. insurance companies announced today that they have relaxed the grace period for policy premiums for those impacted by the extreme storms and severe flooding in the counties declared as disaster areas by the state of Missouri. Details of this and additional actions being taken by the insurance companies follow below. The five companies are:

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