Signs of a Bottom in Housing
By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM Home builders started construction on just 428600 single-family homes in 2011 and completed just 444900 single-family homes, the Census Bureau reported Thursday. Both were the lowest totals since the bureau started keeping records …
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Free access offered to selected state archives
Users can access Kansas State Census Records from 1865-1925 (years ending in "5"), Civil War Enlistment Papers of Kansas Volunteer Regiments (1862, 1863, 1868), Russell County Vital and Probate Records, selected World War I manuscripts, and the United …
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Gone with or without a trace
And as Loveland's population increases and ages — US Census Bureau data estimates almost 12000 of the city's 67000 people are older than 60 — local police believe they will investigate more reports of missing senior citizens in years to come. …
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