01/09/2009
Talk of a regional jail study does not let individual counties off the hook (Mid-Hudson News)
MONTICELLO – Sullivan County is under state order to build a new jail, and that will not change regardless of whether area counties follow through with a regionalization study, and whether that study produces concrete results.
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01/09/2009
Stimulus package would provide direct Medicaid relief for counties (Mid-Hudson News)
WASHINGTON – Counties in the Hudson Valley are expected to pay some $48 million for Medicaid services in 2009, with counties using an average of 48 percent of their property tax revenue to fund Medicaid obligations.
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01/09/2009
Deschutes to get foster care revamp; The state wants 8 counties to have fewer kids in care (The Bulletin)
Deschutes County is among eight Oregon counties the state selected to come up with plans to reduce the number of children in foster care by 2011, a statewide goal the Department of Human Services announced this week.Staff at the agency said the intention is to provide better care for children, and they will use safe methods to lower the number of children in foster care.
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01/09/2009
Counties may get more Medicaid money (The Journal News)
Congress is considering a plan to ship some Medicaid money now earmarked to New York state to New York City and counties to help hold down local property taxes, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said yesterday.
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01/09/2009
Ag Department Declares Disaster In Three Counties (Times Record)
LITTLE ROCK — The federal Agriculture Department declared three Arkansas counties disaster areas Wednesday because of farm losses due to bad weather last year.
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01/09/2009
MS 13 in Yuba and Sutter Counties (FOX40 Sacramento)
SACRAMENTO - A special task force says a notoriously violent gang with international ties is getting a foothold in Sutter and Yuba counties. The MS 13 gang is so dangerous that the FBI has put it on a special "watch' list. Kids are being beaten as initiation into MS 13 ...a gang many call the most dangerous gang in America. Now MS 13 members are turning up in and around Yuba City and ...
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01/09/2009
Jefferson County among state's most unsafe counties for railroad traffic (Beaumont Enterprise)
Southeast Texas industry reliance on railroads could be to blame for Jefferson County's distinction as one of the state's most dangerous counties for rail safety, a state representative said Thursday.
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01/08/2009
Police have description of home break-in suspect in Gratiot and Isabella counties (The Saginaw News)
State police have released an artist's rendering of a man involved in a series of daytime burglaries. He is one of three men who have made the rounds in Gratiot and Isabella counties, knocking on doors to see if...
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01/08/2009
9 more Tenn. counties get drought aid (WBIR-TV Knoxville)
Farmers in nine more Tennessee counties, including Cocke and Sevier counties, are getting federal help to recover losses caused by drought.
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01/08/2009
9 More Tenn. Counties Get Drought Aid (News Channel 5 Nashville)
Farmers in nine more Tennessee counties received federal help to recover losses caused by drought.
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