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A year later and still no answers in Tarwacki case
NILES — A year ago this Saturday, at a little after 6:30 a.m., a man parked his car on Yankee Street near Carberry Road, just outside the east Niles city limits, hiked a short distance through a wooded area, jumped a fence to the back yard of John...Tags: Stevensville, Crimes, Human Interest, Crime, Law and Justice, Murder
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AP analysis: Foreclosures raise U.S. economic stress
Americans are under more economic stress. A monthly analysis by The Associated Press shows an increased number of foreclosures outweighed lower unemployment in December. Foreclosure rates rose in 33 states for that month — most sharply in Utah,...Tags: Georgia, Alabama, Real Estate, The Associated Press, New Jersey
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Ex-mayor sheds shorts 5 years after Katrina vow
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — There was a time when not even the president of the United States could get Eddie Favre (FAHR'-ve) to wear pants. Favre lost everything but the clothes he was wearing — which included Bermuda shorts — when...Tags: Elections, Politics, George W. Bush, Hurricane Katrina (2005), Regional Authority
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Frozen body of homeless man found in Michigan City
MICHIGAN CITY — The frozen body of a homeless man was discovered Monday afternoon inside his makeshift tent in a woods outside Michigan City.
Detective Michael Raymer at the LaPorte County Sheriff's Department said preliminary findings of an...Tags: Crimes, Human Interest, Wayne, Wayne County, Michigan City
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Proposed Mississippi license plate to honor KKK leader
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A fight is brewing over a proposed Mississippi specialty license plate that would honor an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan. The Mississippi Division of Sons of Confederate Veterans says it wants to sponsor five state-...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Elections, Ku Klux Klan, Human Interest, Tennessee
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Census estimates show big gains for US minorities
WASHINGTON (AP) — Preliminary census estimates show U.S. racial minorities accounted for roughly 85 percent of the nation's population growth over the last decade. Hispanics accounted for much of the gain in many of the states picking up new House...Tags: Elections, Minority Groups, Washington, DC, Demographics, Politics
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Miss. man charged with felony over $1.28 sausage
VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man is charged with felony shoplifting over a can of Vienna sausage after authorities say it was his third offense. The can cost $1.28. Police in Vicksburg said Friday that 50-year-old Earl L. Scriven was...Tags: Crimes, Prosecution, Sausages, Trials, Theft
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Blues musician Pinetop Perkins, a former LaPorte resident, dies at 97
Chicago TribuneCHICAGO — Pinetop Perkins lived the blues. Born on a cotton plantation near Belzoni, Miss., in 1913, he worked the fields from age 7, drove a truck for a living at 18 and got stabbed in the arm in his late 20s. The barroom attack tore his...Tags: Human Interest, Muddy Waters, Texas, Music Theater, Ceremonies
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Obama, Mitch Daniels and journalists ham it up at dressy dinner
WASHINGTON (AP) — Searching for laughs — and finding them — president Barack Obama spared few targets Saturday night, from Democratic allies to Republican antagonists to the journalists who cover him. At his first presidential...Tags: Elections, Human Interest, Politics, Barack Obama, Executive Branch
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Special needs student punched at Miss. high school
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A video circulating on the Internet shows a Mississippi special needs student being punched in the face, and the boy's family wants stiffer punishment for the attacker and implementation of a stronger bullying policy. Amy...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Crime, Law and Justice, Punishment
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Mom held on $5M bond in death of boy found in oven
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi judge has set bond at $5 million for the woman charged with murder in the death of her 3-year-old son, whose body was found in an oven. The Delta Democrat Times reports bond was set by City Judge Michael Prewitt...Tags: Washington (U.S. state), Crimes, Justice System, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice
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Miss. mom charged after son's body found in oven
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi mother has been arrested in the death of her 3-year-old son after authorities say they found the child's burned body in an oven. Washington County Coroner Methel Johnson said Wednesday that police found...Tags: Washington (U.S. state), Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice
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