Missing: One House

This prank was a catastrophe.

Officials at Jackson State University say vandals removed a "Property of Jackson State" sign from the yard of a house scheduled for demolition and put it in front of the house next door. What's more, the pranksters apparently spray-painted "1409," the number of the first property, on the house at 1407 Hair Street, in Jackson, Miss. The university's contractor demolished the wrong house.

That home belonged to the family of Annie Wilson, a 60-year-old

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