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Cornelius F. Salonis spent two months in a Minnesota jail on drug possession charges before lab tests showed the white powder police found in his car was deodorant. His attorney blamed a faulty field test.
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A state law allows counties to effectively steal homes over unpaid taxes and keep the excess revenue for their own budgets.
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