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• Sugden said Wednesday's highest snowfall total for the state was 6½ inches recorded in the tiny central town of Rozel. He said they were expecting heavy snow but not blizzard conditions. Still, he warned that the Interstate 70 corridor could see as much as 13 inches of snow with drifts adding to the danger for drivers.
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Egypt's Brotherhood suspected of running secretive outfits that mirror state institutions
• CAIRO (AP) -- Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi speaks publicly of firsthand knowledge of a meeting where opponents allegedly plotted against him.
• A few months earlier, the most powerful man in his Muslim Brotherhood group, Khairat el-Shater, says he has access to recordings of former military rulers and electoral officials engineering his disqualification from last year's presidential race.
• In Egypt, those statements are seen by security officials, former members of the Islamist group and independent media as strong hints that the Brotherhood might be running its own intelligence-gathering network outside of government security agencies and official channels.
• Such concerns dovetail the Brotherhood, which has a long history of operating clandestinely, to suspicion that it remains a shadowy group with operations that may overlap with the normal functions of a state.
• Brotherhood supporters also demonstrated militia-like capabilities at anti-Morsi protests in December.
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Disappointment permeates Jesse Jackson Jr's former Chicago area district after guilty plea
• CHICAGO (AP) -- Residents in this swath of sprawling Chicago neighborhoods and suburbs have brimmed with loyalty to Jesse Jackson Jr. over the past 17 years, giving him an enthusiastic majority each election -- even after questionable links to ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich, reports of an extramarital affair and a bizarre five-month medical leave.
• But the former congressman's guilty plea to charges that he lived off and lavishly spent campaign money for personal use -- on everything from toilet paper to mink capes -- has turned the tide. In territory where it was difficult to scrape up any criticism of Jackson, his Chicago alderman wife or his famous civil rights leader father, the mood is now simply one of disappointment.
• "He knew better; it was a very stupid thing to do," said 75-year-old Jeannette (Continued on page 27)
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