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This week starts the NFL’s 100th season, but some teams seem to still be finding a awful lot of empty seats. As the Cleveland Browns took on — and lost 43-13 to — the Tennessee Titans at FirstEnergy Stadium, for instance, fans took to social media to express their shock at the number of empty seats:At EverBank Field, the Jacksonville Jaguars also found a horde of empty seats when the lost big to the Kansas City Chiefs 40-26:Meanwhile, at the Miami Dolphins’ Hard Rock Stadium, the Baltimore Ravens flew into town to skunk the Dolphins 59-10. But fans seemed lacking...

<p>Fewer cigarettes were sold last month in Illinois, but the first month of higher cigarette excise taxes generated $12 million more in state revenue than July 2001, the Illinois Department of Revenue reported.</p> <p>Meanwhile, the department says it has referred to the Illinois attorney general's office five cases of Chicago-area retailers attempting to avoid the tax.</p>