The call went out to law enforcement officials in a four-county area, but Stratton knew that if they didn't use their heads, McElroy would get away.

TCL achieved its current name in 1988 to better reflect the four-county area to which the institution had grown to serve.

In the first half of the year, six homicides were registered in the four-county area.

A recently completed power increase to the station's transmitter now brings community radio to the greater four-county area of Northeast Iowa.

Fortunately, the four-county area had an existing electric rail network - some 800 miles of track on which dilapidated passenger trains ran.

The four-county metropolitan area had a population of 232,000 in 2000.

Members who have immediate family within this four-county area, may be eligible to join as well.

But throughout the four-county area, only the city of Grafton grew, about 5 percent to 5,117, from 1990 to 1998.

If those four people were found dead, the park would become the deadliest site in the four-county area that was the tornadoes' target.

Orlando, or the big, four-county area of Central Florida that many people think of as Orlando, is leading a charmed life.