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Fires, floods, rocks, suicide, fat, jobs, anarchy and more morning headlines

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City Hall is cracking down on homeless people sleeping outside in Spokane, using methods that include making the ground itself inhospitable to them.

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Between rocks and a hard place
In an attempt to prevent homeless people in Spokane from sleeping on the ground, the city has strewn $150,000 worth of basalt boulders in the underpass beneath I-90. (Spokesman-Review)

Elaborate suicide
A Montana woman who seemed to have been abducted and whose body was found in the trunk of a car in Spokane last September actually committed suicide, the FBI has concluded. (Spokesman-Review)

Wilderness aflame
Glacier National Park is on fire, and the historic Sperry Chalet just burned down. (Spokesman-Review)

Water world
What Houston residents are returning home to after the flood. (New York Times)

A bit of a slump
Job growth in the U.S. was weaker than expected in August. (Washington Post)

Anarchy ensues
The conservative Weekly Standard's Matt LaBash embeds with the targets of antifa and black bloc anarchists in Berkeley, California.

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