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ALASKA

Residents receive dividend checks

JUNEAU — Permanent Fund dividend checks were scheduled to be deposited yesterday in the bank accounts of Alaskans who selected the direct-deposit option, state officials said.

The money comes from state oil royalties and is delivered each year to Alaska residents. This year’s dividend amounts to $845.76 per person. Checks will be mailed beginning Oct. 26 for all other residents.

CALIFORNIA

Former Bush home to be museum

LOS ANGELES — A dilapidated two-bedroom house in California that once was occupied by two future U.S. presidents — George W. Bush and his father, George Bush — is to be made into a museum, its owner said Tuesday.

The Bush family briefly rented the house, in a working-class neighborhood of the central California town of Bakersfield, in the summer of 1949 when the 26-year-old George Bush was a salesman for an oil field equipment firm.

Republican Party consultant Mark Abernathy bought the house five years ago and plans to open a museum and reading room for children in honor of the Bushes, especially family matriarch and former first lady Barbara Bush, a long-standing champion of literacy.

GEORGIA

Man arrested in theft of jet

LAWRENCEVILLE — A Georgia man has been arrested in the theft of a charter jet that went missing from a St. Augustine, Fla., airport and ended up about 350 miles away near Atlanta, police said yesterday.

Daniel Andrew Wolcott, 22, of Buford, was charged with felony theft by receiving and five misdemeanor counts of reckless conduct, police said, adding that additional federal charges were expected.

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