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While the setup may seem a bit different for noir fiction, Ames’ expert plotting and spot-on descriptions of Mexican and stateside environs and denizens makes “Karma Doll” another excellent installment of what is, happily, proving to be a long-running series.

But it’s unclear whether the National Veterinary Surveillance Laboratory in Ames, Iowa — where confirmatory testing for bird flu in animals is currently taking place — will stay open.

But Ames Mathers, who lives near another encampment, called its residents her neighbours.

While starring in “One Tree Hill,” he landed two other pivotal roles — one in “Freaky Friday,” as Jake, the motorcycle-riding, Britney Spears-singing crush of Lindsay Lohan’s Anna, and as star quarterback Austin Ames in “A Cinderella Story,” opposite Hilary Duff.

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