CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - A muted version of a winter storm that has killed more than a dozen people across the eastern half of the country plodded across the Northeast on Thursday, trapping airliners in snow or mud and frustrating travelers still trying to return home after Christmas.

The storm, which

They were hotter than the firecrackers in a Fourth of July celebration.

For as the nation relished in the spirit of another year of  American Independence, residents of South Cordova were just finding out through news media reports they'd been placed under the taxable yoke of Memphis City annexation on July 1.

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