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An accused sex offender who fled his Perry County home Oct. 15 was arrested Saturday in Arizona.Clair James Smith, 56, of Bailey Run Mobile Home Park, Miller Township, was in Navajo County Jail Saturday after Holbrook, Ariz., police who were on the lookout for him spotted his black Ford Explorer."It wasn't an accidental traffic stop. They saw this vehicle," Perry County District Attorney Charles "Chad" Chenot III said Saturday afternoon.Holbrook police stopped Smith at 7 a.m. Mountain Standard Time and took him into custody without incident, Pennsylvania State Police at Newport reportSmith had a handgun, four boxes of ammunition and a large amount of cash with him, police say."Authorities in Holbrook had been contacted by our state police," Chenot said. "State police have been tracking him.
WHITE PLAINS - High winds knocked a construction worker into a stairwell and caused police to close off traffic around the high-rise hotel construction project in the center of downtown this afternoon. Deputy Public Safety Commissioner Daniel Jackson said workers were trying to clear all loose building materials from the site of the Ritz-Carlton hotel project, which began blowing off the building as high winds picked up this afternoon when the man was injured. "The building inspector ordered everyone off the structure and we're going to keep the streets closed until the wind dies down," Jackson said. "It will probably be for the whole night and this is going to cause a lot of congestion downtown." Main Street eastbound at Martin Luther King Boulevard and Mamaroneck Avenue northbound at Martine Avenue have been closed to vehicular and pedestrian traffic until further notice, jackson said.
MIAMI -- Some residents of Blue Lakes Mobile Home Park in west Miami-Dade County protested Tuesday, saying their landlord is harassing them to leave their homes. Residents marched and carried hand-painted signs, asking county officials for help. Residents said the landlord posted an eviction notice in March. They claimed that once the announcement was made, they were subject to threats and harassment to get them to move out sooner. .
(CBS) BLYTHE, Calif. Part of Highway 95 was closed Tuesday after a fatal accident involving a mobile home and a big rig, according to the California Highway Patrol. The three-vehicle accident occurred on the southbound Highway 95 outside Blythe at 8:40 a.m. Tuesday morning. The Riverside County Coroner's Office was called after reports of a deceased person that was "completely trapped" in one of the three vehicles involved, according to the CHP. The crash initially closed both the north and southbound lanes of Highway 95, according to the CHP. A SigAlert was issued after 9 a.m., indicating a "long term closure" of "one to two hours." Southbound traffic was rerouted through the Agnes Wilson Bridge to reconnect with the highway in Arizona, according to the CHP. Blythe CHP dispatchers could not immediately provide additional details.
The notion of providing tax breaks for modular housing on the Gulf Coast as a means to provide fast, affordable housing for victims of Hurricane Katrina has seemed a no-brainer. Gov. Haley Barbour, in calling today's special legislative session to address that one issue, has said that this tax break will reduce the cost of new homes for Coast families by $4,000 to $6,000 per home. "The number one priority and challenge in Mississippi caused by Katrina is housing," Barbour said. "We must act now to remove barriers to building housing on the Gulf Coast, and reducing the tax on modular homes is a necessary step toward that end." But House Speaker Billy McCoy, who did not push his chamber to take up the modular housing tax break in the previous special session, has expressed concern that the tax break won't benefit homeowners but contractors or modular home manufacturers.
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