Marshall County lately has had three times as many "mental health calls, " basically reports of people acting crazy.

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In Marshall County, West Virginia, Consol has begun work on a field test to determine the viability of injecting carbon dioxide permanently into coalbed methane wells 1, 500 feet underground.

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"We pay wages, we negotiate contracts, we pay for health benefits for staff, " says Ted Kamatchus, sheriff of rural Marshall County, Iowa, which is facing huge shortfalls from mortgage foreclosures and unemployment.

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Thomson-McDuffie County Sheriff Logan Marshall said the jet crashed after 8 p.m.

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