An inquest was held, and after a good deal of testimony about the anonymous notes, the county coroner estimated that the shooting had been done from a distance of 300 yards.

This showed that common sense had not died out at the county and village level -- though why the unhappy and obviously unbalanced woman was not restrained remains a puzzle.

That such expansion can be obtained without a raise in taxes is due to growth of the tax digest and sound fiscal planning on the part of the board of commissioners, headed by Chairman Charles O. Emmerich who is demonstrating that the public trust he was given was well placed, and other county officials.

As we understand, this directive was given to all city and county employes.

He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.

It's at the far end of the county and the last time I came here was for a hit and run manslaughter -- about seven months ago.

The third amended the enabling act for creation of the Lamar county Hospital District, for which a special constitutional amendment previously was adopted.

A baby was burned to death and two other children were seriously injured last night in a fire which damaged their one-room Anne Arundel county home.

Mr. Simpkins is a resident of Somerset county, and he and the Governor, also a Somerset countian, have been friends since Mr. Simpkins was a child.

He was among the richest men in the county.

The highest temperature ever recorded was 109 ° F ( 43 ° C ) in Talladega county in 1902.

The campaign was sure to be a struggle ; the Whigs nominated their " Eagle Orator " Gustavus Henry, and Johnson wasted no time in calling him to task for his " Henry-mandering " of the First District, as their debates made their way across the state from one county seat to the next.

Johnson was critical of the Tennessee common school system and suggested funding be increased via taxes, either statewide or county by county – a mixture of the two was passed.

In January 1864 Johnson organized a gathering of his state's Union loyalists, where resolutions were passed to elect county officials throughout the state, including a plan for a convention to dispose of the slavery issue ; also adopted was a very controversial and mandatory oath for voters, to protect and preserve the Union in the future.

His earliest years were passed in the monastery of Siresa, learning to read and write and to practice the military arts until the tuition of Lope Garcés the Pilgrim, who was repaid for his services by his former charge with the county of Pedrola when Alfonso came to the throne.

The county of Toulouse, since them, was joined to the Alphonse's appanage.

He was then taken to Europe and his brother Bertrand gave him the county of Rouergue.

In his tenth year, upon Bertrand's death ( 1112 ), he succeeded to the county of Toulouse and marquisate of Provence, but Toulouse was taken from him by William IX, count of Poitiers, in 1114, who claimed it by right of his wife Philippa of Toulouse, daughter of William IV of Toulouse.

Angus was historically a county ( known officially as Forfarshire from the 18th century until 1928, when it reverted to its ancient name ) until 1975 when it became a district of the Tayside Region.

* John James Maximilian Oertel ( 1811 – 1882 ), born in Ansbach, was a Lutheran clergyman who later converted to Roman Catholicism, became a professor of German at Fordham University in the United States, and later edited and founded several newspapers in the United States, including one that would become the leading German-language newspaper in the county, Baltimore's Kirchenzeitung.

Bornholm was one of the three last Danish municipalities not belonging to a county — the others being Copenhagen and Frederiksberg.

Lenawee remained attached to Monroe County, out of which it was formed, until an act of the Territorial Legislature passed on December 26, 1826, organized the county government.

This was accomplished by an act of the Territorial Legislature on June 30, 1824, even though county government would not be organized for another year and a half.

The Township of Tecumseh was organized on April 12, 1837, initially encompassing the entire northern third of the county.

Similarly, county, town, city and ward committees, where organized, generally consist of members elected at the local level.

Arlington County, the smallest self-governing county in the United States by land area, is an urban community organized as a county.

Its area was much larger than the present county, however, and was reduced subsequently as more counties were organized.

The county was organized January 2, 1833 and named for Governor DeWitt Clinton of New York.

The county was organized February 28, 1845 and named for Israel Putnam, a hero in the French and Indian War and a general in the American Revolutionary War.

It was the first county to be organized in the Mississippi Territory, eighteen years before Mississippi became a state.

The county was finally organized and separated from Pottawattamie County on March 12, 1853.

The county was organized January 2, 1822 and named in honor of U. S. Representative Henry Clay from Kentucky, later member of the United States Senate and United States Secretary of State.

In 1862 the county was formally organized.

The county was initially organized as Tennessee County, North Carolina, but its name was changed in 1796, the year that Tennessee was admitted as a state, to reduce confusion.

As of the census of 2000, there are 196, 533 people in the county, organized into 65, 698 households and 49, 536 families.

Hampshire County was formed in 1662 out of Middlesex County, an original county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which organized counties in 1643.

On October 8, 1868, the area was again organized into a county, but as Covington County had been renamed " Jones County " the same year ( a change that lasted only a few months ), the new county was named Sanford, in honor of H. C. Sanford of Cherokee County.

The first Jewish resident was Isaac Miranda, who owned property there before the town and county were organized in 1730.

Churchill County was not organized until 1864, and its county seats were Bucklands ( 1861 – 64 ) which is now in Lyon County, La Plata ( 1864 – 68 ), Stillwater ( 1868 – 1904 ) and Fallon ( 1904 – present ).

There are 3, 033 organized county or county-equivalent governments in the United States according to 2007 Census of Governments.

In virtually all U. S. states, the state courts and local law enforcement are organized and implemented along county boundaries, but nearly all of the substantive and procedural law adjudicated in state trial courts originates from the state legislature and state appellate courts.

The county was organized on March 12, 1800, from parts of Allegheny, Westmoreland and Lycoming Counties.

It became a county in Wyoming Territory when that territory's government was formally organized on May 19, 1869.