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Florida Politics · Florida Florida lawmakers took a state-arranged tour of the new Everglades immigration detention center on Saturday after some were blocked earlier from viewing the remote facility that officials have dubbed “ Alligator Alcatraz.” Democratic and Republican state legislators and members of Congress were heading into the facility Saturday morning. So many politicians turned up that they were split into multiple groups to tour the 3,000-bed detention center that the state rapidly built on an isolated airstrip surrounded by swampland.See the Story
Lawmakers visit ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ but some wonder how much they’ll get to see
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Stone County, Mississippi · Stone CountySTONE COUNTY, Miss. (WHLT) - A former Stone County Road Department employee pled guilty to one count of embezzlement. State Auditor Shad White said Tyler Loper took took various types of scrap metal, which belonged to Stone County, from the Stone County Rubbish Site and sold it for personal gain.
One arrested, two wanted for shooting into Laurel home “I’m thankful to the Stone County Sheriff’s Office for their help with this case and to th…See the Story
Former Stone County Employee Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement
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