Journalist with local roots is safe after being taken hostage in Iraq last week

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Reporter Shelly Kittleson, who went to grade school in Mount Horeb, was taken hostage by an Iran-backed militia March 31 and set free on Tuesday of this week, according to the Associated Press and...

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