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• The Jackson County Commissioners held a joint meeting with the Excise Board on Tuesday, Jan. 3, at 10 a.m. The commissioners approved the minutes from last meeting, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011.
(Altus Times)
• The Economic Development Commission of Florida's Space Coast is holding an investor update on Jan. 18. The meeting is from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Brevard Community College's Planetarium Observatory, 1519 Clearlake Road, Cocoa.
(Florida Today)
• The Genesee County Economic Development Center has provided assistance this year to 17 companies that pledged to create 172 jobs by 2013, according to a check of GCEDC records. Most of the new employment will be with firms in the Batavia area.
(The Daily News Online)
• NAPLES — A new year may bring a new vision for economic development in Collier County. The Collier County Economic Development Council announced plans in September to close its doors, around the time a strategic plan was released.
(Naples Daily News)
• A peculiar feature of Chinese society is that a complaint process runs parallel to, but outside, the legal system.
(Today Online)
• LONDON - Human remains have been discovered on Sandringham estate, a vast area in rural Norfolk where the royal family retreats for the holiday season, local police announced Monday.
(Today Online)
• · According to the Haas report, the county has roughly a 9 percent surplus of automobile dealerships, a 30 percent surplus of full-service restaurants and a 37 percent surplus of bars. However, the study did spotlight some gaps.
(Destin Log)
• A Nevada rancher who spotted a man and woman walking in a desolate area Tuesday while surveying his cattle from the air led police to arrest the suspects in the killing an elderly Utah couple in a crime spree that spanned two states. Supervisory Deputy U.
(La Crosse Tribune)
• WEST RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — A swirling, twisting sandstone formation in northern Arizona is evidence of Noahs flood, says a West Richland man who recently visited the unusual geologic phenomenon.
(Associated Press)