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Rain whips downtown Burnsville, the county seat where the sheriff and other officials gather in the Emergency Operations Center.
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Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 19 May 2025
Kayla Patterson, her husband and their five children huddled in a tub in their basement in London, the county seat, as the tornado raged.
—CBS News, 17 May 2025
Friday’s development is just the latest twist in a complicated, layered, yearslong corruption scandal that has engulfed Alameda County, its county seat, Oakland, and led to the ousting of its mayor and a district attorney.
—Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Feb. 2025
Waukegan, first visited by Pere Marquette in 1673, was incorporated as Little Fort in 1859, after becoming the county seat in 1841.
—Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2025
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Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 19 May 2025
Kayla Patterson, her husband and their five children huddled in a tub in their basement in London, the county seat, as the tornado raged.
—CBS News, 17 May 2025
Friday’s development is just the latest twist in a complicated, layered, yearslong corruption scandal that has engulfed Alameda County, its county seat, Oakland, and led to the ousting of its mayor and a district attorney.
—Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Feb. 2025
Waukegan, first visited by Pere Marquette in 1673, was incorporated as Little Fort in 1859, after becoming the county seat in 1841.
—Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2025
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“County seat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/county%20seat. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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