NOW YOU KNOW
<p>• Briar Creek Township supervisors have tentatively approved a budget for 2013. Real estate tax rate is 6 mills, fire tax is 1 mill, per capita is $5, and street light assessment is $34.
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<p>Three races too close to call</p>
Around the World
<p>Protest turns ugly at Ole Miss</p>
HISTORY LESSON
<p>1942: Operation Torch, resulting in an Allied victory, began during World War II as U.S. and British forces landed in French North Africa.</p>
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
<p>• Country singer Lauren Alaina, 18.</p>
<p>• TV personality Jack Osbourne, 27. </p>
<p>• Actress Courtney Thorne-Smith, 45. </p>
WHAT’S HAPPENING
<p>Blood Drive: 1-6 p.m., Nescopeck VFW, 435 W. Third St.</p>
<p> Daily Bread Meal: 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Agape Center, 19 E. Seventh St., Bloomsburg.</p>
Trio allegedly stole $5G cash
<p>BLOOMSBURG — Three men are charged with stealing another man’s duffel bag containing about $5,000 in cash, including bills that had been marked by the victim to identify them, arrest paper
Suspect blames transfer to Columbia County for troubles
<p>BERWICK — An accused burglar says he didn’t know he was leading police to a meth house as he fled officers last month.</p>
Anchor’s husband arrested
<p>PECKVILLE — Mark W.
Cops: Man labeled meth lab
<p>BERWICK — Police say they had a pretty good idea there might be something illegal in the plastic file box they found in a suspect’s car early Friday: It was labeled “Billy Jay Fishers Meth