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U.S. government stop sending refugees. But after recent inspections found Somali families living in overcrowded, pest-infested apartments without electricity and sometimes heat, he stepped up complaints, saying resettlement agencies are bringing in "warm-weather" refugees and dumping them into cold climates only to leave them dependent on the city.
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• PINE HILL, Ala. (AP) -- Burdened with Alabama's highest unemployment rate, long abandoned by textile mills and furniture plants, Wilcox County desperately needs jobs.
• They're coming, and from a most unlikely place: Henan Province, China, 7,600 miles away.
• Henan's Golden Dragon Precise Copper Tube Group opened a plant here last month. It will employ more than 300 in a county known less for job opportunities than for lakes filled with bass, pine forests rich with wild turkey and boar and muddy roads best negotiated in four-wheel-drive trucks.
• "Jobs that pay $15 an hour are few and far between," says Dottie Gaston, an official in nearby Thomasville.
• What's happening in Pine Hill is starting to happen across America.
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• SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- The South Korean army captured a soldier Monday who it says killed five comrades then fled into the forest where he holed up with a rifle for two days before shooting himself as pursuers closed in.
• The massive manhunt ended when the 22-year-old sergeant, surnamed Yim, shot himself in the upper left chest as his father and brother approached, pleading with him to surrender, a Defense Ministry official said. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of department rules, said Yim was taken to a hospital but his life wasn't in danger. He didn't elaborate.
• Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok said the soldier would be handed to military investigators later. Soldiers retrieved Yim's rifle and ammunition at the site.
• South Koreans have worried about public safety in the wake of an April ferry dis

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