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  • Church records offer rare look inside polygamist families

    By MICHELLE ROBERTS

    Hand-scrawled records taken from a polygamist sect are helping untangle the spider-web network of family relationships at the Yearning For Zion ranch, where some husbands had more than a dozen wives.

  • Man who lost homes in Katrina claims $97M Powerball prize

    By MELINDA DESLATTE

    A construction company owner who lost two homes in Hurricane Katrina claimed a $97 million Powerball prize, a jackpot won off a ticket he bought at a convenience store where he stopped to buy his wife a gallon of milk.

 

NATIONAL NEWS FROM THE HERALD-LEADER

  • House passes bill to aid homeowners

    By Julie Hirschfeld Davis

    The House on Thursday passed a massive homeowner rescue plan to provide cheaper, government-backed mortgages to half a million debt-ridden borrowers and bolster an economy crippled by the housing crisis.

  • Chile find points to earlier settlement of Americas

    Remains of meals that included seaweed are helping confirm the date of a settlement in southern Chile that might offer the earliest evidence of humans in the Americas.
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