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Criminals in Jackson make off with $1.6 million in cash, cars and stolen merchandise every month.

That's the average amount the Jackson Police Department concludes is lost monthly in stolen cars, robberies, burglaries and thefts around the city. The figures are contained in monthly reports the city makes to the FBI and are twice the national per-capita average.

"That's an astounding number," said Tricia Raymond, executive director of the local crime watchdog group SafeCity. "That just kind of points to the fact that the criminals are getting smarter and they are following the money."

About half of that lost value comes from cars stolen in the city. On average, $700,000 worth of vehicles are stolen in Jackson every month.

Clinton resident Cyndi Stewart became part of that calculus when she pulled her car into a shopping center parking lot on Old Canton Road in Jackson on the afternoon of Oct.

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Bid for steel mill still up in the air

BATON ROUGE -- Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Thursday that it may be another two or three months before she knows whether a German corporation will build a $2.9 billion steel plant in St. James Parish or spurn the state for a rival site in Alabama.

Blanco's comments came as she stepped off a jet at Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport from Dusseldorf, Germany, where she met with executives of ThyssenKrupp AG, who are reviewing the economic development pitches of both states before making a decision on where to locate the steel mill that will employ 2,700 people.

Blanco estimated the timetable for a decision based on her conversations with company officials during rounds of meetings from Sunday through Wednesday. She pointed out that ThyssenKrupp indicated earlier that they would have announced a site in December but that a decision was delayed.