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During the process of reporting on a story highlighting the impacts of rising temperatures on the U.S. prison population, Reuters set out to answer: How many prisons provide cooling for inmates? How ...

Motorists may have noticed a metal box with some complicated looking attachments recently appeared near the Ryan Road bridge over the Red Run in Warren. The United States Geological Survey gauge ...