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The nation in brief

Posted: October 8, 2012 at 4:54 a.m.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “I don’t know what it was he saw or heard that triggered this whole event. Unfortunately it resulted in his death and another agent injured.” George McCubbin, president of the National Border Patrol Council, who said a U.S. Border Patrol agent killed last week was shot by fellow agents after he mistakenly fired on them Article, 3A

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