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In 1959, Sebastian Scirpo started a Connecticut livestock auction in a rented chicken coop and made $7 on his first commission; 67 years later, his daughters run the state’s last remaining sale barn

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In 1959, Sebastian Scirpo started a Connecticut livestock auction in a rented chicken coop and made $7 on his first commission; 67 years later, his daughters run the state's last remaining sale barn

Since her father died in 2002, Lisa Scirpo has been working to persuade farmers and dealers that the Middlesex Livestock Auction will continue as the only sale barn in Connecticut. Without it, Scirpo said farmers who want to bring animals to auction would have to travel to Massachusetts or Pennsylvania. But now, farmers in those … Read more

Sri Lanka’s missing persons commission handling nearly 17,000 active cases

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Sri Lanka's missing persons commission handling nearly 17,000 active cases

Colombo, Sri Lanka’s Office of Missing Persons is handling almost 17,000 active cases of disappearances while its database contains over 23,000 cases, its chairman Mahesh Katulanda has said. Sri Lanka’s missing persons commission handling nearly 17,000 active cases Katulanda said the figures included disappearances linked to the island nation’s decades-long military conflict with the Liberation … Read more