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New story: Normandy Motel

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At the shabby old motel where he grew up, where the Ku Klux Klan burnt a cross and moonshine soaked the pastures, the retired judge still practices law. Old family dairy buildings stand back in the woods, while the former “blood bucket of the Westside” is now an insurance office. The judge’s mother was a homecoming queen. No one remembers the puppy’s name in her earliest photos. 

New Story: Jacksonville’s Place in the History of Dogs with Guns

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With one shot, Diesel entered that subchapter of American history concerning dogs with guns.

Almost every “Dog Shoots Man” story for the past 150 years prides itself on a joke about the dog not being arrested.