Batman plot hatched in county
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An activist, dressed as Batman, plotted the embarrassing security breach of Buckingham Palace at a rural hotel in south Shropshire over the weekend, it emerged today.
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By Chuck Mueller, San Bernardino County Sun, Calif.  Feb.
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By Alex Breitler, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Dec. 12--STOCKTON -- Stockton East Water District wants to run a bulldozer through a family's walnut orchard in an attempt to appease another neighboring farmer and guard against terrorists who may want to poison Stockton's drinking water.
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In a country underscored by 15-second celebrity and bizarre political twists, few fictional characters have channeled our collective out-of-control insecurities better than Opus, the beleaguered, lumpy-billed Everypenguin at the center of Berkeley Breathed's comic parallel universe Bloom County.
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For sheriff's deputy Archer, writing a mystery novel is all in the details.
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A group pushing to bring minor league baseball to Charles County said Tuesday that it hopes to build a $18 million stadium and put a team on the field in 2006.
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By MARGARET K. COLLINS, STAFF WRITER  WAYNE  Township officials still hope for tax-generating development on the last big tract of available land in town. But after having butted their heads against state environmental restrictions in the past, they're now willing to go along to get along.
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By Christopher D. Kirkpatrick, Jen Aronoff and Victoria Cherrie, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 11--LENOIR -- Eugene and Violet Anderson were home last spring when a van pulled up and the mayor, a county commissioner and several others piled out.
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By Mary Ann Ford, The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.  Feb. 9--BLOOMINGTON -- A controversial wind farm proposal has been recommended to the McLean County Board.
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By Mark Havnes, The Salt Lake Tribune  Feb. 1--KANAB -- The Kane County Commission has joined a growing chorus  of local-government opposition to Divine Strake.
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By Howard Yune, Appeal-Democrat, Marysville, Calif.  Sep. 24--When Rolf W. Peter bought more 1,765 acres of pasture land in the Colusa County foothills in 1965, the Swiss-born engineer planned to erect a showcase of sports and weekend leisure there.
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Bob Thompson makes a career out of something most of us would pay to do. "I'm from an outdoors family," the Columbia County man said.
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By Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Jun. 10--We all want creepy predators locked up. But not the way NBC does it.   And not the way police handled it in one Collin County town.
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By Sharen Trembath  This is a last-ditch effort to let the public know about the latest attempt of the Erie County executive to balance the county budget on the back of the county parks system.
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By FRANK ELTMAN  GARDEN CITY, N.Y. - A Long Island county is dealing with the not-in-my-backyard problem by housing sex offenders in trailers away from residential areas.
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By James Mosher  Baltimore County's chief elected official is no longer leaving the motor running on the concept of combining a public park with a private office building at a former Towson gasoline station but a local business leader remains hopeful he can jump-start the idea.
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RICHMOND, Va. -- People have told investigators that Michael Vick was involved in a dogfighting operation at a house he owns in Surry County, the sheriff said Wednesday, and Vick will be charged if investigators can find evidence backing those claims.