ONE early Fairfield County family's name can be found on an 1816 deed to Main Street property; a stained glass window in the old German Reformed Church on Chestnut Street; a tombstone in Elmwood Cemetery marking a brave Civil War soldier's death in battle; road signs in Liberty Township; in the realtor's description of a home for sale south of Lancaster; and in the current phone book for a ...
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Once a Democratic stronghold, Lincoln County?s political pendulum now rests with Republicans, which captured all but two races.
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Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox spent 36 years in solitary confinement in a Louisiana prison for the murder of a corrections officer. Decades later, questions are surfacing about how the wife of the lead investigator ended up as the forewoman on the jury and why the key witness was promised a pardon.
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The woman known here as Anita Gilbert, an accused animal hoarder on the run since August, will be brought back to Kern County next week to face trial. Gilbert, whose real name is not known, was finally captured this week. Gilbert told reporters she was in treatment for cancer in a Los Angeles hospital, but reports indicate she'd been using fake names and the help of friends to secure apartments ...
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