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It doesn’t matter how often or how extensively Diasha White cleans her two-bedroom apartment at Independence Towers in eastern Jackson County. The cockroaches always reappear.

“It actually pisses me off,” White said. “After I clean it, what’s the first thing I see? Roaches crawling.”

White stores her mops and brooms upright, so the bugs don’t get caught in the bristles. She and her daughter sleep with the lights on, so the roaches don’t follow them to bed…

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