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Black Howl
Christina Henry - Author
Something is wrong with the souls of Chicago's dead. Ghosts are walking the streets, and Agent of Death Madeline Black's exasperating boss wants her to figure out why. And while work is bad enough, Maddy has a plethora of personal problems too. Now that Gabriel has been assigned as her thrall, their relationship has hit an impasse. At least her sleazy ex-fiance Nathaniel is out of the picture--or so she thinks...
"Legs in the air, heels toward the ceiling. Crunch, quick!"
I lay flat on my back, legs extended up, and started crunching as the instructor counted off reps. After about three movements the atrophied muscles in my abdomen started to scream for mercy. My legs dropped toward the ground.
"Uhuhuh. No, no, no," the instructor said to me as he walked around the classroom checking our form. He was a tall, handsome AfricanAmerican man with the demeanor of a drill sergeant. "Keep those legs up."
He grabbed my ankles and jerked my legs back into position. I tried to remember why I had made this asinine New Year's resolution to lose weight in the first place. Beezle had laughed for a full half hour when I told him I was going to an aerobics class.
"You should be going with me, too," I'd said. "Except that you'd scare the crap out of all the fit people."
Beezle had patted his round tummy indignantly. "I'll have you know that I am the perfect shape for a gargoyle."
"Yeah, a gargoyle that gets out of breath going to the kitchen for snacks," I'd replied.
"Better to get out of breath in pursuit of chocolate than in pursuit of a fitness you will never achieve," Beezle had said.
I'd sworn then and there to lose thirty pounds by June. In retrospect, this was a stupid thing to say out loud, because if I didn't lose the weight, Beezle would harass me about it for the rest of my life.
"Fifty more!" the instructor shouted.
I groaned and glanced at the clock. Aside from my possibly fruitless pursuit of rockhard abs, I had a secondary motive for getting up at the ungodly hour of five A.M. and making my way to the local YMCA. I had a soul to pick up, and that soul was Harry Lopardo, presently crunching his way up and down on the mat next to me, scheduled to depart this earth in about eight minutes. Harry was a superfit middleaged guy who could easily have been in one of those magazine ads for protein bars. He had that nobodyfat look.
If I knew that I had only eight minutes left on my sand timer, I would definitely be doing something besides crunches. It would probably involve getting Gabriel, the unrequited lust of my life, naked as quickly as possible. Of course, there was a universe of obstacles in the way of that happening.
See, I'm an Agent of death. What that means is that once a week I get a list of names, times and places. The names are souls whose deaths have been foreseen by Agency prophets. My job is to be in the right place at the right time to take the soul to the Door. I'm not sure precisely what's behind the Door, but I know that the soul has a choice of many worlds.
Death is a bureaucracy. It's ordered, and filled with paperwork, and pretty much everyone is on a needtoknow basis. As a lowly Agent (a crappy job I inherited when my mother died) my needtoknow ranking is pretty low.
"Leg lifts, slow, then quick, go!" the instructor shouted.
I looked at the clock again. Two more minutes. Thank the freaking Morningstar, because I wasn't sure if I would be able to bend at the waist ever again if this went on for much longer.
"Fifty more!"
"Fifty more, fifty more . . . Is that all he knows how to say?" I muttered.
Harry looked over at me and grinned. "I know it's tough, but if you stick with it, you'll see results."
"No talking!" the instructor shouted.
I huffed and puffed my way through another few reps, and then Harry's legs dropped to the ground and he clutched his chest. His face turned purple.
Heart attack.
I came to my knees and called out to the instructor. "Hey, you should call nineoneone! I think this guy is having a heart attack."
Everyone in class turned to look at us. I took Harry's hand. "It's okay, it's okay; just look at me."
People started crowding around. The hiphop music that blared from the speakers kept running, out of sync with what was happening in the room.
"Clear the way, clear the way; give him some air!" the instructor said.
I dropped Harry's hand and scooted back behind the crowd. This gave me the perfect opportunity to disappear.
I pushed my wings from my back and winked out of sight.
Even though I was invisible I still had to follow the laws of physics. That meant that I had to work around the knot of people surrounding Harry and slip through an opening to get to his body. A second after I knelt beside him again, he breathed his last breath.
His soul came drifting up from the body, attached by a band of ectoplasm. Harry looked down at himself with confusion, then up at me. His eyes widened when he noticed my wings.
"A heart attack? Seriously? I was in great shape," he said. "Are you the grim reaper? Or some kind of angel?"
"A little of both," I said, and this was true. My father was Azazel, a fallen angel, and my mother had been an Agent of death. I was also distantly related to Lucifer, and he loved to remind me of that fact.
Harry watched the class instructor giving his lifeless body CPR. "So I guess if you're here, that means that CPR isn't going to do too much for me."
I shook my head and held out my hand. "Will you come with me?"
You have to give the soul a choice. They have to choose to go with you, or stay and haunt this earth forever. Choosing to be a ghost also creates a lot of annoying paperwork.
Harry put his hand in mine. As he did, he looked me up and down critically. "I meant what I said, you know. If you stick with the class, you will definitely see results."
"I'll keep that in mind," I said. "Got any fitness tips for an overweight gargoyle?"
The laws of Lucifer's kingdom said that once you are a thrall, you are always a thrall. You can be passed from owner to owner but you can never, ever be free. I really did not want to be Gabriel's owner. But I didn't want him to belong to someone else who would abuse him, either. So mostly I left him alone and avoided making direct requests of him that he would be forced to follow.
This meant that I spent a lot more time flying solo than I used to, unless Samiel decided to come with me. Samiel was Gabriel's half brother and he'd recently become a part of my household collection of oddities. He frequently came with me on pickups because he had an insatiable curiosity about anything and everything to do with humans, but Beezle had insisted that Samiel stay home this morning and watch a movie with him. The gargoyle had been strangely mysterious about the choice of film, too, so I just hoped that he wasn't making Samiel watch something icky, like a really bloody horror movie.
I was flying lower than I usually do, close to the rooftops, which is why I saw the ghost.
It was walking in circles on the sidewalk, which was odd behavior, even for an apparition. Every once in a while it would walk toward the brick exterior of a building and bounce off, almost as if it didn't know that ghosts could drift through solid objects.
I lowered myself to the ground, so focused on the specter's weird behavior that I bumped into a kid with a hooded sweatshirt and backpack making his way to a nearby bus stop. The kid stopped and looked behind him, alarmed. Seeing nothing, he continued on, his shoulders tensed as if waiting for an attack.
That was stupid of me. I shook my head and continued on toward the ghost, who was still walking in circles near the newspaper boxes on the corner. As I approached I saw that it was a twentysomething male, and he was talking to himself.
"Got to get to classcan't stopgot to go nowsorry redhave to gocan't staydon't make me staydon't make me staydon't make me stay."
He was dressed in that slouchy, wornout style that a lot of college students favored. As I got closer his voice rose in a crescendo.
"No, can't stopcan't staysorry reddon't make me staydon't make me stayDON'T MAKE ME!" He walked into a building, bounced off the wall and walked back, bouncing off again like a record with a skipping needle.
"Hey," I said, putting my hand on his shoulder. "Hey, do you need help?"
He turned on me in terror, his hands raised and his wrists crossed in front of his face as if expecting a blow. "No, can't stopdon't make me!"
I held my own hands up so that he would know that I wasn't going to hurt him. "Hey, it's okay. It's okay. You're safe. Can I help you? Can I bring you somewhere?"
Maybe I could convince this soul to go to the Door. That would probably win me points with J.B., even if he wasn't my direct supervisor anymore. J.B. hated ghosts. He took the presence of every lost soul as a personal affront to his ordered universe.
The ghost had lowered his hands, but when I asked if I could bring him somewhere, he got that panicky, trappedanimal look again. "No, can't stopgot to godon't make me stay!"
I didn't know if he'd been damaged in life or in death, and I didn't usually intervene in the afterlives of ghostsonce the soul has made their choice to haunt instead of go to the Door, an Agent is pretty much out of it. But this ghost was acting so weird, I couldn't believe that the Agent who had been sent to do his pickup had left him like this. I thought I'd better get him off the streets.
I called an Agent response team and gave them my location.
"Agent Madeline Black, north side, near the bus stop at the corner of Clark and Wellington. Yeah, I've got an unruly ghost here."
I gave the dispatcher some info on the ghost's behavior and he told me to wait until the response team arrived. I tucked my phone in my pocket and settled in to babysit.
They didn't keep me waiting long. A few minutes after I'd called, three burly guys who looked like Navy SEALs came flying in. They all wore black shirts and black cargo pants and had the unsmiling look of military men on duty.
"Agent Black? We'll take it from here."
I stepped back to let them do their thing. The leader of the squad approached the ghost with his hands in the air, indicating that he meant no harm. The ghost had gone back to walking into the wall over and over again.
I felt a tap on my shoulder and turned around. J.B. stood there, glaring.
"What's up with your ghost, Black?"
J.B. had a thing for me, and if I didn't have a whole lot of unsettled lust for Gabriel, I might have had a thing for J.B., too, because he was pretty much as hot as it gets. Six foot plus, body of a runner, green eyes, black hair that sticks up in every direction because he spends a lot of time tugging at it.
Unfortunately, he acts like a stickinthemud most of the time. Also, he was presently pissed at me because his mother had put a spell on him to make him act loveydovey toward mepart of her master plan of getting a child from Lucifer's bloodline into her own bloodline. I didn't know why this was my fault, but once the spell was broken, he'd decided to take out his mother issues on me.
"It's not my ghost, Bennett," I said, trying to control my anger. "I found it acting like this."
"This is the fourteenth one this week," he said, his eyes troubled. "I want to know what the hell is going on."
The ghost screamed, and I turned back to see that one of the response team guys had wrapped his arms around the ghost's to restrain him. Another member of the team pulled out a small black device that looked a lot like a remote and pointed it at the ghost's eyes. A laser sight appeared on the bridge of the soul's nose.
The ghost struggled in the Agent's grip, his cries louder and more frantic. "Can't stopKEEP GOINGSORRY REDI AM THE SCREAMI AM THE SCREAMI AM THE SCREAM!"
The other Agent pressed a button on the remote. It didn't seem like anything had happened, but the ghost abruptly went limp in the Agent's arms. One of the other guys stepped forward with a binding rope.
"How could fourteen ghosts end up like this in one week? Who was supposed to do their pickups?" I wondered aloud.
J.B. was silent behind me. I turned to face him and saw that his jaw was clenched.
"What?" I said.
He looked like he was struggling with some decision; then finally he said, "They weren't scheduled."
"Fourteen unscheduled deaths in one week? And they all ended up like this?" I looked at him with dawning comprehension. "You think it has something to do with the fallen."
"Doesn't it usually?" he said. "Every time something weird and freaky has happened around here in the last few months it's come back to Lucifer. And the weird and the freaky have happened more frequently since you acknowledged your bloodline and came into your powers."
"And so you think I might have something to do with it?" I said. "You know, you accused me of murder once and you looked pretty stupid after when you found out that I hadn't been lying about Ramuell."
"I'm not accusing you of anything. I'm just saying that you are Lucifer's child."
"I'm not Lucifer's child," I said. I could feel my magic pulsing underneath my skinnever a good sign. Even though I had made great leaps and bounds in controlling my powers, I still was at the mercy of my emotions.
"Really?" he said, with a pointed glance at my right hand.
My right palm was covered with what looked like a henna tattoo of an uncoiling snake. Unfortunately, the tattooing had not been voluntary. I'd been branded by Lucifer's sword, and I wasn't happy about it.
I shook my head at J.B. "I'm Azazel's child, and my heritage has nothing to do with this in any case. I don't know what's causing this."
"Maybe I should just have you followed," J.B. said thoughtfully. "You'll probably stumble onto the solution accidentally. That seems to happen a lot."
"I resent the implication that I'm ThreeStooging my way through life. I am the only person who's ever survived the Maze," I snapped. "And may I remind you that you should look to your own backyard before you start making wild accusations."
"You think my mother has something to do with this?" J.B. snorted. "She'd never be able to keep a secret this big from the rest of the faerie court."
"She managed to keep the fact that she wanted a child of Lucifer's bloodline secret," I reminded him.
"What motivation would she have for murdering mortals and leaving them like this?" J.B. said.
"What motivation did she have for trying to have me raped and killed?" I said, and as soon as I said it I was sorry. It hung in the air between us like a living thing.
As if by speaking it aloud, my memoriesthe ones that I tried so hard to suppress over the last monthcame rushing back.
The Mazea swarm of demons, a giant spider, my demon half brother trying to destroy me utterly.
Nathaniel's face possessed by rage, Nathaniel's hands holding me down.
Gabriel turning away from me in disgust.
"It wasn't real," I muttered to myself. My face was covered in sweat, and a blast of cold January air made me shiver.
"Maddy . . ." J.B. said, and he lifted his hand toward me.
"No," I said, and backed away, trying to get myself under control, trying to forget again. "I'm not doing this with you. You can't be my friend when you feel like it and shout at me the rest of the time. Whatever your mother did, I had nothing to do with it, and I suffered far worse at her hand than you did. You were embarrassed by a love spell. She tried to break me, my heart, my mind, my body."
"But she couldn't," J.B. said, and his eyes were hard to read.
"She couldn't," I agreed. "And I won't let you or anyone else do it, either."
Then I turned and flew away, and he didn't try to follow me.
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Newly appointed Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has a
chance to use his deal-making abilities to bring change to the way
Western public lands are managed
As the number of illegal immigrants crossing the Sonoran
Desert into Arizona rises, the Border Patrol is faced with the need
to protect a fragile environment at the same time that it polices
the border.
Elaborate marijuana gardens, created and managed by
Mexican drug lords, are turning California's public lands
into a dangerous, illegal, industrial-style landscape
The Bush administration's plan to privatize federal
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The same solitude that attracts nature-lovers to the
West's public lands attracts lawbreakers as well –
particularly a growing number of Mexican
Like their military compatriots in Iraq, the American
civil servants charged with managing our public lands, water and
wildlife lack adequate funding, back-up, or the moral support of
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The biologist who blew the whistle on the National Marine
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Saturday, January 8, 2011
© Copyright 2014 Albany Herald
LEESBURG - Lee County had a lot more trouble coming back from a long layoff than Westover did with recovering from back-to-back big games.
The Patriots came back a night after defeating state-ranked Thomasville at the Civic Center to run away from the Trojans, 76-55, on Saturday at Lee County High, thanks to 13 points from Herald Super 6er Malcolm Sapp.
"Coming back, we're still trying to get our legs under us, so it was tough," said Trojans head coach Tim McPherson, whose team hadn't played in 12 days. "I was kind of hoping we could catch them a little tired and I think we did there in the first half. I thought for at least a half, we played with one of the better teams in the state."
Westover head coach Dallis Smith went with a starting lineup of Justin Coley, Trent Brown, Gregory Hall, Anthony Melvin and Damian Ball, usual reserves while his starters rested for a quarter.
The two teams played to a 13-13 deadlock after one quarter and were tied at 17-all before Brandon Hudson scored six points during a 9-0 Westover run in the second quarter to held the Patriots build a 34-22 halftime lead and later pull away in the second half.
"I tried starting some new guys, trying to get them some experience," Smith said. "We're still trying to evaluate what we need to do going into region play (Tuesday) against Crisp (County)."
Hudson led Westover (9-4) with 14 points. Malcolm Sapp hit two threes and finished with 13 points. Lee County was led by freshman Josh Cabrera's 15 points, while Tanner Stone added 14.
The Trojans (2-10), which begin Region 1-AAAA play Tuesday at Northside, Warner Robins, had to play Saturday and for the foreseeable future without Super 6er Sanford Seay. Seay, who committed to play football at the University of Georgia last week, will put basketball on the backburner as he focuses on shoring up his academic work, McPherson said.
"He's concentrating on trying to be qualified," McPherson said of Seay. "We just have to move on. He's concentrating on being Georgia-bound and I think that's what he needs to do."
The Trojans will also play the rest of the season without senior James Terrell, who was dismissed from the team for disciplinary reasons.
Lee County hopes to draw some confidence from being able to hang with Westover for a while heading into region play. McPherson believes only a few teams in the region will be as strong as Westover.
"I don't know if there's anybody as big as Westover (in the region)," McPherson said. "Bainbridge is going to be tough. As far as size, the Drew kid (Ray Drew) at TCC is a banger."
Westover, meanwhile, hopes to ride the momentum of the last two non-region wins Friday and Saturday into Tuesday's matchup with Crisp County.
"(Crisp is) probably one of the scrappiest teams in the region," Smith said. "They've got all those kids back."
Super 6er DyTiesha Dunson scored 24 points and rallied a slow-starting Lady Patriots team that trailed Lee County 12-2 in the first four minutes of the game.
Lee County's DaQuenna Moore helped the Lady Trojans fly out of the gate before she picked up two quick fouls, but still finished with 24 points of her own in the loss.
Westover (11-1) got 13 points from Cessiley Colwell, while Ieshia Young scored 10 and Kahler Fletcher added nine.
Lee County (7-5) got 11 points from Carle Ely and Jessica Clinton chipped in nine.
The Lady Patriots rebounded from their first loss of the season Friday against Thomasville by scored 42 points in the first half and led by 11 at the break. Westover went on a 24-2 run between the first and second quarters to pull away.
Dunson recorded four steals in the win.
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- Westover boys, girls hoops lay smack down on Lee County ( November 30, 2010 )


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G.Skill now hold frequency record for Quad channel memory
Real money auction house set to shutter it doors in March 2014
Agrees to buy all of the output from Happy Hereford wind farm, all 240MW of it.
Improves compatibility and adds new features
New 80 Plus Bronze power supplies launched
A surprising product, to help prevent data theft
Just when you thought your case was big enough
Called the Hadron Air, EVGA quality now in cases
Increased bandwidth for larger resolutions
No longer a tease, as Ducky UK announce new Shine 3 TKL range // Year of the Snake keyboards almost here!
Plant expected to resume operations soon however
Ducky UK Facebook page hints at new TKL model of Shine 3
For the second year running, Lenovo's CEO is going to share his $3M bonus with 10,000 workers
Now offering 2.5" NAS Orientated drives
BT turns off dial-up internet access
Get Arkham Origins for free by purchasing a qualifying Nvidia graphics card
And get £50 credit split across Warframe, Dungeons & Dragons and Marvel Heroes
Using 20 nanometer technology
Due to overwhelming demand on their servers
After a successful public beta, Synology advance the DSM software
used to play a video game
Set to retire in next 12months, after a successor is chosen
Looks to offer refunds on EA games purchased through origin
Usernames, email addresses, salted password hashes, and some first and last names were accessed.
Worldwide traffic reportedly drops 40%
Allows users to gain an unfair boost to scores in overlocking benchmarks
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WordReference translates acullá as "yonder." Is this a word that was only used in the past, or is it still used in modern Spanish today? If so, what regions does it appear in and how is it used?
As others have said, this is not a commonly spoken word, but is found mostly in poetry and writing, perhaps especially used in folk and children tales. I would use "acá y acullá" as the equivalent of "hither and yon".
As an aside, The RAE defines "acullá" as
So "l(ocative?) adverb. To the opposite part of the speaker. Used opposite to adverbs that demonstrate closeness, such as "aquí" or "acá", and less frequently to those of farness, such as "allí" or "allá", of which it can be an "intensificator(?)".
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Posted: 01/09/2014 - Mid-Ohio Valley's Most Wanted Ali Martin turned herself into authorities Wednesday, January 8, 2014.
Posted: 11/04/2013 - John Maxwell Wilson II, was arrested by the West Virginia State Police on November 2, 2013
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Posted: 08/28/2013 - Parkersburg Police are looking for Mitchell Polan for a felony nighttime burglary.
Updated: 07/03/2013 - Authorities are looking for David Floyd and Mikal Sparks.
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Bulldog Men Take Second, Women Third at Gamecock Invitational
Columbia, S.C. – The Citadel men's and women's cross country team's opened the season with second and third place finishes, respectively, at the Gamecock Invitational in Columbia, S.C., on Friday evening. Both teams ran the 5k course at Hilton Field in Fort Jackson.
The men's team placed five of their runners in the top 10 including a second place finish by Austin Waldrop who recorded a time of 16:05. Following behind Waldrop was Atom Young (5th place, 16:50), Raeven Lantz ( 6th place, 16:56), Jordan Ashley (9th place, 17:08) and William Epps (10th place, 17:12).
"The men's team ran very well tonight and we are already ahead of where we were last season," said head coach Jody Huddleston.
The men took second place out of three teams, running an average 5k time of 16:50.
Bo Hutchinson (13th place, 17:27), John Gatewood (14th place, 17:34), Brandon Rabon (15th place, 17:54), Christian Sevidal (17th place, 18:00) and William Sloane (20th place, 18:20) also competed for the men. Senior captain Kyle Keene did not compete.
Danielle McKee led the Bulldogs with a time of 19:23 to take 13th place. Two of the top-5 Bulldog women were first time runners Jackie Thompson (17th place, 19:38) and Jessica Dewitte (32nd place, 21:21). Christina Shonbeck took 30th place with a time of 21:16, while lone senior Micah Wessinger rounded out the top-5 with a 36th place finish and a time of 21:39.
"I'm very excited about the women's team this season with the freshmen running very well in their first collegiate race," said Huddleston.
The women took third place out of five teams, topping Southern Conference foe Georgia Southern running an average 5k time of 20:39.
Caillian Colquitt (38th place, 21:47), Emily Fields (40th place, 22:07), Nicole Ogilbee (41st place, 22:08) and Kristen Kessinger (43rd place, 22:57) also competed on the women's side.
The Bulldogs will compete at the College of Charleston Invitational at Trophy Lakes on Johns Island, S.C., next Friday, Sept. 7.
For more information on Bulldog cross country, find us on Twitter @CitadelSports, Facebook or visit the official website of The Citadel Athletics, www.citadelsports.com.


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Rafalca, the horse co-owned by Ann Romney and ignored by Mitt, is in London competing in the Olympic event called dressage.
Finally over jet lag. If you think flying coach is bad, I had to stand the whole way.
Airplane food is terrible, even in horse first class.
People who clean bathrooms gave me evil eye after we landed. Must have been something I ate.
Staying in a nice stable but it doesn't have an elevator like back home.
Getting a lot of attention because of Mitt. His campaign doesn't want me to do any interviews, like I'd be any worse …
Love the way Mitt is trying to make believe he doesn't even know me. Who do you think taught me my Piaffe routine?
Harry Reid tweeted me, asked me to ask Mitt to release his tax returns.
Been getting lot of grief when I go out in public because of Mitt's Olympics remarks. Pretty much keeping my ear buds in all the time.
Good thing Ann went with Mitt to Poland. Heard he wanted to lay a kielbasa on the war memorial.
Still laughing over Mitt's aide shouting at the press to "Kiss my ass. This is a holy site … "
Hey, check this out. After Mitt's stop in Israel, Sheldon Adelson created a $10 million PAC for me. lol.
I don't know what my chances are for a medal, but you have to figure the British judge will low-ball me.
If I win, wonder if I'll cry when they play the National Anthem. Bet Mitt will cry.
I guess if this dressage thing doesn't work out I can always go on "Dancing with the Stars." I mean, if Bristol Palin can do it …
Not Understanding the Price Point
President Obama is planning one of his regular visits to the nations ATM, lower Fairfield County, on Monday.
The local chapter of the Tea Party plans to protest … yawn.
What is interesting about the pit stop, however, are the ticket prices. To attend the fundraiser at the Stamford Marriott supporters will pay $500 a ticket. To get into the meet-and-greet at the Westport home of entertainment industry mogul Harvey Weinstein will cost you $38,500. Why $38,500? It's not like people who can pay $38,500 are going to balk at $40,000.
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Someone in a car fired at another car near Tozer and Yosemite in Madera Friday morning.
Four people were shot and one is in critical condition.
Madera police believe the shooting was in retaliation for a previous homicide.
Police are searching for the gunman.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Madera Police Department or call Crime stoppers at (559) 498-STOP.
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