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Correction: Offensive Place Names story

Feb 27, 2012, 6:41 PM

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) – In a story about the difficulty of scrubbing racially or ethnically offensive names from federal maps, former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall’s first name was misspelled.

(Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)

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Correction: Offensive Place Names story