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YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Authorities say frozen meat and a chain saw were the only things taken during a break-in a home in Michigan. The Ann Arbor News reports (http://bit.ly/1LPfq1k ) deputies with the Washtenaw County sheriff’s department were called Thursday to the home in Ypsilanti Township following the theft, …

PHILADELPHIA – Tickets will be available online Tuesday for a Pope Francis event at the Independence Mall in Philadelphia. The pope will be giving a speech on immigration and religious freedom in front of Independence Hall on Sept. 26. Officials say 10,000 tickets for that event will be available beginning …

CHICAGO – A federal judge has approved a request from Jesse Jackson Jr. for a four-day furlough from home detention in Baltimore to attend his grandmother’s funeral in Greenville, South Carolina. The Chicago Tribune reports (http://trib.in/1Ofnwmn ) that the furlough will start Friday. Helen Burns Jackson died Monday at age …