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40% FEAR LACK OF RETIREMENT FUNDS

WASHINGTON - Americans are more worried about having the wealth and income necessary to fund their retirements than they were at the end of the Great Recession, according to a Pew Research Center survey released on Monday.

A mobile phone app designed for Arlington National Cemetery provides a database and photos to give researchers easy access to information on the approximately 400,000 people buried there, and visitors to the cemetery a way to find specific graves. One can see the site online via a browser, or download a mobile app, at www.arlingtoncemetery.mil
A mobile phone app designed for Arlington National Cemetery provides a database and photos to give researchers easy access to information on the approximately 400,000 people buried there, and visitors to the cemetery a way to find specific graves. One can see the site online via a browser, or download a mobile app, at www.arlingtoncemetery.milRead moreASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON -

Americans are more worried about having the wealth and income necessary to fund their retirements than they were at the end of the Great Recession, according to a Pew Research Center survey released on Monday.

Despite a slowly improving economy and a rebounding stock market, nearly four in 10 Americans are not confident that they will have the financial wherewithal to retire. A similar report in 2009 found that one in four adults were concerned that they would not be financially ready for retirement, Pew said.

Strikingly, that anxiety is now most pronounced among young adults, a marked shift over three years ago, when workers in their 50s were most worried that they would outlive their retirement savings. More than half of adults aged 36 to 40 say that they are not confident that their nest eggs will last through retirement, three times the share who expressed similar doubts in 2009.

Oldest Auschwitz survivor dies

WARSAW, POLAND - Antoni Dobrowolski, the oldest known survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp - a teacher who gave lessons in defiance of his native Poland's Nazi occupiers - has died at the age of 108, an official said Monday.

After invading Poland in 1939, sparking World War II, the Germans banned anything beyond four years of elementary education in a bid to crush Polish culture and the country's intelligentsia. An underground effort by Poles to continue to teach children immediately emerged, with those caught punished by being sent to concentration camps or prisons. Dobrowolski was among the Poles engaged in the underground effort, and he was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Auschwitz in June 1942.

At least 1.1 million people were killed by the Germans at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. Most of the victims were Jews, but many non-Jewish Poles, Roma and others were also killed there.

Bank robber: There's been some mistake

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Going back to a bank you just ripped off to claim you'd been shortchanged isn't likely to end well.

Syracuse police said that Arthur Bundrage, 28, of East Syracuse, went into a bank at about 9 a.m. Monday and demanded $20,000. Authorities said that a teller initially refused, but relented and gave him some money, even though he never showed a weapon or made a threat.

Investigators said that Bundrage left but returned when he found that he hadn't been given $20,000. Officers said that they found him at the bank's locked front door, trying to get back in.

Casino snatcher's in the chips

LAS VEGAS - Las Vegas police are looking for a 31-year-old Southern California man they believe sneaked into a restricted area of The Venetian resort earlier this month and stole $1.6 million in high-denomination casino chips.

Akingide Cole, of Palmdale, Calif., is wanted on suspicion of burglary, grand larceny and unlawful possession of burglary tools stemming from the heist at the Las Vegas Strip resort, police said Monday.

But it's unlikely the robber will be able to redeem the high-value chips, which are usually circulated among a small group of high-rollers. Because of internal protocol that would flag the biggest chips, the redeemable value of the stash is estimated at $10,000, according to Ron Reese, spokesman for The Venetian's parent company, Las Vegas Sands.

Russell Means, Indian activist, dies at 72

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Russell Means, the self-styled modern Indian warrior who forced international attention on the plight of Native Americans for more than four decades, first through militant protest and later through the power of his own celebrity, died of complications from lung cancer on Monday at his home on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He was 72.

Means,a member of the Oglala Sioux tribe, rose to prominence in the early 1970s as an early leader of the American Indian Movement (AIM), an activist group that has been compared to the Black Panthers because of its history of militancy.

Means' most noted demonstration, a 71-day armed uprising, began on Feb. 27, 1973, in Wounded Knee, S.D. AIM leaders had chosen the site for its historical resonance. On that land 83 years earlier, U.S. military forces had massacred 350 Lakota people - many of them civilians - in the last major clash of the American-Indian Wars.

Means and another protest organizer, AIM leader Dennis J. Banks, were charged with several counts of assault on government officers, conspiracy and larceny. A judge ultimately dismissed the case, citing misconduct by prosecutors and the FBI.

Popular skeptic Paul Kurtz dies

AMHERST, N.Y.

- Paul Kurtz, who founded an international center devoted to debunking psychics and UFOs and promoting science and reason over what he viewed as religious myths, has died. He was 86.

The secular humanist philosopher died Saturday at his home in the Buffalo suburb of Amherst. His death was announced Monday by the Center for Inquiry, which was founded by Kurtz in 1991 and has more than three dozen branches worldwide.

A prolific author and organizer, Kurtz also founded the not-for-profit Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and Council for Secular Humanism, as well as the secular humanist magazine Free Inquiry and Skeptical Inquirer magazine, which takes on such topics as alien sightings, paranormal claims and homeopathic remedies. Most recently, he formed the Institute for Science and Human Values.

He died of natural causes, Amherst police said.

At the market: A special on waffles

The U.S. stock market struggled for direction Monday. All three major indexes waffled between gains and losses before closing slightly higher. Investors were underwhelmed by earnings reports. The overhang of the presidential election in two weeks didn't help. Investors are wary of making big moves before they know who's going to be the next president.

The Dow Jones Industrial average ended virtually flat. It inched up 2.38 points, or 0.02 percent, to close at 13,345.89. A late rise erased a 108-point deficit in the Dow. The Standard & Poor's 500 index was also little changed, edging up 0.62 point to 1,433.81. The Nasdaq composite index rose 11.34 to 3,016.96.

Besides the election, an economic report due Friday also has the markets in a holding pattern. That's when the government is supposed to report how much the U.S. economy grew in the third quarter.

One dead in 'naked rampage'

VALLEJO, CALIF. - A California man was shot and killed by police in what investigators described Monday as a naked rampage involving two men who broke car windows and set their rented house on fire.

Jeremiah Moore, 29, was killed early Sunday after putting a loaded rifle to an officer's abdomen, Vallejo Police Lt. Lee Horton said.

Investigators suspect that Moore and Jason Jessie, 28, may have been taking hallucinogenic drugs, Horton said. Results from toxicology tests were pending.

So far this year, Vallejo has had 10 officer-involved shootings, with six fatalities.

- Daily News wire services