Inmate uses toilet paper cardboard to escape cell

Columbia police have captured an inmate who allegedly escaped from the Howard County jail using a cardboard toilet paper holder. Curtis Jones of New Franklin was captured Wednesday afternoon.

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Elkhart jobless rate no longer state's worst

Elkhart County no longer has the state's highest unemployment rate. That dubious distinction belongs to Howard County, home to Kokomo, according to new state figures broken down by Marilyn Odendahl in The Elkhart Truth.

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It's Monday at 5:30 a.m., and Howard County is just waking up under a streaky graphite sky. Lawson, on the job four hours already, has barely begun her workday.

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