Trees brought down by Hurricane Michael's ferocious winds took a heavy toll on life, property and the timber industry in the heavily forested Florida Panhandle.

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Hope Yen AP Writer Washington — Five states — New York, California, Texas, Arizona and Florida — are perilously close to losing out on congressional seats because of lackluster participation in the U.S. census. The five were average or below ...

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By Bob Christie AP Writer Phoenix — The five states hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis have been given only weeks to plan how to spend $1.5 billion in federal money announced by the Obama administration last month. Guidelines issued ...

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By Ben Evans AP Writer Washington — Sixty years ago, the late Atlanta Mayor William Hartsfield resisted helping to pay for Lake Lanier, a new federal reservoir being built north of town. Atlanta had plenty of water, he wrote Congress. ...

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By Michael Tarm AP Writer Chicago — The $8 billion in stimulus cash awarded to 13 high-speed rail corridors across the country may seem like a windfall for advocates, but there’s a catch: The money isn’t enough to finish any ...

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Christine Armario AP Writer Arcadia, FL — Greg Bove steps into his pickup truck and drives down a sandy path to where the future of Florida’s renewable energy plans begins: acres of open land filled with solar panels that soon ...

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Brendan Farrington AP Writer Jacksonville, FL — When homebuilder Bob Liddell noticed the decline in the housing market more than three years ago, he supplemented his business with home remodeling. But he ran into a different problem — competing with ...

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Ben Evans and Greg Bluestein AP Writers Atlanta — Georgia faces the dire prospect of losing metropolitan Atlanta’s main water source if political leaders can’t broker a solution with Alabama and Florida over rights to a major reservoir within three ...

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John Miller AP Writer Meridian, Idaho — Developer Frank Varriale thought his plans to build shops, apartments and a hotel in this sprawling Boise suburb would have become reality by now. Instead, about the only things standing on his land ...

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