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• Sweet Homestead Alabama - Alaska ex-pat Jackie Carr traded life at Rancho Spenardo for 29 acres and a goat at Spenardo ... (Anchorage Press)

  There are many places in the American Deep South that defy stereotypes. Randolph County, Alabama, is not one of them.

• Healy courthouse gets modern makeover (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner)

  If you have any business to conduct at the state courthouse in Healy, be sure you do it before March 19. That is the last day the courthouse will remain open. All court business is moving to the n...

• Increased Medicaid usage spikes cost (Anchorage Daily News)

  The single biggest item in the Alaska state budget is experiencing a costly growth spurt. It's Medicaid -- the state-federal insurance program for poor and low-income people. The cost is sure to top $1.2 billion this budget year. About 11,000 more children enrolled in the last 18 months.

• Recalls this week: Soups, dips and window shades (KTUU Anchorage)

  More than 50 food products including soups, dips and salad dressings were caught up in a large recall of a flavor-enhancing ingredient possibly contaminated with salmonella this week.

• Gov't adopts formula that doubles elderly poor (KTUU Anchorage)

  The government took steps Tuesday to highlight the increasing numbers of poor Americans, adopting a revised formula that is expected to double the number of older people classified as living in poverty to nearly 1 in5.