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It’s that time for year for topwater fishing on lakes and rivers (at the least ones not too high) and that leads this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report.

Two people are in custody after a shooting at Cielo Vista Mall killed one person and left three others injured. Heres what the scene looked like.

El Paso police say a fight between two groups was behind the shooting that left one person dead and three others injured inside Cielo Vista Mall.

El Paso police say a fight between two groups was behind the shooting that left one person dead and three others injured inside Cielo Vista Mall.

El Paso police will provide updates Thursday afternoon on the ongoing shooting investigation at Cielo Vista Mall.

El Paso police say a fight between two groups was behind the shooting that left one person dead and three others injured inside Cielo Vista Mall.

The opening of Illinois’ fall trout season Saturday and the continuing nearshore trout and salmon fishing on southern Lake Michigan lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report.

Simone Concas was born into the hospitality trade. “When I was younger, they just put a tray on me,” he said with a laugh, referring to his family and its bed-and-breakfast back in Sardinia, Italy.  “This is how it happened. That was the beginning of the whole thing,” La Scala’s new executive chef added in a recent interview. “It’s not like I chose to be in the business. The business chose me.” Last month, La Scala owners Jeff Downey and Donald Lubowicki chose Concas to wear th...

Frame of the debate and say i like everybody up here. everybody up here is better president than barack obama. cheering for whole republican party. its a good tactic. only one who stayed out of the back and the forth. if he gets a rise in this and start to climb in party looking for non-romney he might have a chance of being non-romney. >> bret: quickly, jeff, you spent time on the trail. a lot of states. is it possible that this year is a different dynamic, that online, social media, it just, m...

>> bret: there is the back and forth now. the panel. juan williams with hill. jeff downey, "new york times." syndicated columnnist charles krauthammer. before we start, explainer here. the reason the december sack this way and we configured things today, the electric company apparently cut a line and the building essentially has very little power. we wanted to bring the show to you. it looks different but its the same show. >> a vast left wing conspiracy at work, obviously. >> bret: lets talk ab...