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• Free tickets for the 30-minute mansion tours must be obtained in advance from the Pierre Chamber of Commerce.
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CDC: 24 E. coli illnesses linked to frozen foods
MIKE STOBBE,AP Medical Writer
• NEW YORK (AP) -- Health officials say at least 24 people have become sick from an outbreak of E. coli infections linked to frozen snack foods marketed to children.
• No one has died, but eight people, mostly kids or teens, were hospitalized.
• An investigation detected E. coli in an open package of Farm Rich brand frozen chicken quesadillas at an ill person's home.
• On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported illnesses in Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin.
• The Buffalo, N.Y.-based Rich Products Corp. has recalled quesadillas, mozzarella bites and other frozen products made in November.
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NWS expands severe weather warnings
KYLE POTTER,Associated Press
• ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Residents of Sumner County, Kansas, received a dire warning last year as a tornado barreled through toward Wichita: Get underground or into a shelter -- or else.
• "Mass devastation is highly likely, making the area unrecognizable to survivors," the National Weather Service cautioned last April.
• In an effort to get people to safety quickly, the National Weather Service said Friday that it will expand its retooled severe weather warning system in Kansas, Missouri and 12 more Midwestern states.
• Starting Monday, it will provide media outlets and emergency services with more detail about the strength of a brewing tornado or thunderstorm, what it may hit and when. The system will also detail possible hazards and impacts of any potential tornado based on radar data, and more information on less severe but still "considerable" storms.
• Mike Hudson, an NWS meteorologist in Kansas City, Mo., said alerts with words such as "catastrophic" and "destruction" will likely be rare -- once a year in Kansas and twice a decade in northern states like Minnesota. The words will be reserved for "those types of tornadoes that ultimately take lives, so we want to ring the bell a little (Continued on page 22)
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