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Federal inmate escapes from detention center

Authorities say a federal inmate has escaped from the Washington County Detention Center in Jonesborough. The Johnson City Press reports that 37-year-old Timothy England escaped from the facility early Tuesday.

Mississippi police arrest man in killings of two nuns

DURANT, Miss. (CBS News) -- A man suspected in the slayings of two nuns found dead in their Mississippi home has been arrested and charged with capital murder in the shocking killing that rocked the small town communities where the women served, authorities said.

Officials concerned over whitewater center reopening

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - State and local elected officials have expressed concerns that the U.S. National Whitewater Center has reopened its channels less than two months after a rafter died from a brain-eating amoeba and with no new regulations in place.

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