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Bedding provider Tempur Sealy has agreed to acquire Mattress Firm in a cash and stock transaction valued at about $4 billion, the companies said Tuesday.

Bedding provider Tempur Sealy has agreed to acquire Mattress Firm in a cash-and stock-transaction valued at about $4 billion, the companies said Tuesday.

Tempur Sealy said Mattress Firm will operate as a separate business within the company to complement product development and manufacturing.

The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforce­ment Act of 1994authorized the creation of an intergovernmental grant programwithin the U.S. Department of Justice to fund the hiring andrede­ployment of 100,000 additional community polic­ingofficers on America's streets. The program that administers thegrants is the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services(COPS).

Protests do not always need to be obnoxious, like the one at Stanford. Some weeks ago, I was myself subject to a protest while speaking at another college.

Protests do not always need to be obnoxious, like the one at Stanford. Some weeks ago, I was myself subject to a protest while speaking at another college.

A yearlong investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution identified more than 250 chronically dangerous apartment complexes in metro Atlanta.

After September 11, The United States cannot afford to wastevaluable resources on misplaced priorities and ineffectiveprograms. Common sense dictates that resources should be shiftedaway from the ineffective programs of the DOJ to programs that willbetter protect America's security.

A fire in the 11900 block of W. Ryan Court heavily damaged a garage and home early Sunday evening.

Officials have repeatedly announced they were adding extra officers, unarmed security guards or K-9 teams to the public transit system