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NATCHEZ —Some Natchez residents believe the accidental shooting death of Deborah Mizell on Tuesday is a symptom of the stress generated by a rash of unsolved home and auto break-ins. Mizell's husband shot and killed her believing she was a home intruder. There have been four break-ins downtown and one in the Jeff Davis area. Ann Tillman's car was broken into in December. “It makes everyone on edge and fearful," she said. The recent car burglary wasn't Tillman's first exposure to being the victim of a crime. Four years ago her house was also hit. Tillman said the invasion of her home and subsequent auto break-in left her feeling unprotected and fearful. Since this rash of break-ins started weeks ago, Police Chief Mike Mullins said catching the perpetrator or perpetrators has become top priority.
Conservative gabbers blast McCain
Yet with McCain winning primaries in New Hampshire and South Carolina, and in a virtual tie with Mitt Romney for the lead in polls in Florida, the top radio personalities are facing the possibility that their words are having little effect. Radio host Michael Medved said that the big loser in South Carolina was talk radio, "a medium that has unmistakably collapsed in terms of impact, influence and credibility because of its hysterical and one-dimensional involvement in the GOP nomination fight." Its continued resistance to McCain will be ineffective and will hurt both the Republican Party and the radio industry, Medved said. The long-running hostility toward McCain stems from his failure to follow conservative orthodoxy on issues including immigration, global warming and money in politics, Hewitt said.
Bush Touts Iraq Progress, Economic Plan
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May 2006
The Japanese crippled the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor only nine months earlier. The Allies had yet to retake any territory captured by the Axis nations. It is only in retrospect that we can now see how the momentum of the war would shift in favor of the Allies. At the time, the prospects did not look bright.Sixty years later, humanity faces another grave threat -- global warming -- while the United States has become dependent on fossil fuels from some of the least stable places on earth. The challenges appear daunting, as they did in August 1942 -- when a similar convergence of an engaged citizenry, entrepreneurial endeavor and government mandate demonstrated what this country can accomplish.I've never had the good fortune to attend the launching of a ship, but right about now I'm witnessing something that looks a lot like it -- and I can't help but feel optimistic.(photo credit, www.history.navy.mil) Patriot Ledger story.
Wisconsin/Illinois briefs
Wisconsin/Illinois briefs 1/27/08 Youth killed in fire at family home HARVEY, Ill. -- Authorities in the southern Chicago suburb of Harvey say a 15-year-old boy died after a fire engulfed his family's home there early Friday evening. The blaze also displaced seven people. The Cook County Medical Examiner's office has identified the dead youth as Larry Powell. Harvey police spokeswoman Sandra Alvardo says that when firefighters arrived on the scene they found the house fully engulfed in flames. The burning house was completely destroyed, but firefighters managed to keep the fire from spreading to neighboring houses. Another Cook County death blamed on cold CHICAGO -- The death of an elderly Chicago-area resident is being tied to the cold. The Cook County medical examiner's office says 69-year-old Rosella Ehrlich fell in her Park Forest home and suffered hypothermia.
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