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August 28, 2008
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Local
A man wanted for parole violation and aggravated assault who has been evading law enforcement since June turned himself in to authorities Monday, said Bulloch County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Gene McDaniel.
August 28, 2008
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By HOLLI DEAL BRAGG
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Local
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe's main opposition leader faced mounting pressure Wednesday to agree to a power-sharing government with autocratic President Robert Mugabe, but insisted that this must reflect ''the will of the people.''
August 28, 2008
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By ANGUS SHAW
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
BEIJING - Michael Phelps finally seems to be grasping what it all means.
August 28, 2008
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By PAUL NEWBERRY
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
British author and journalist Claud Cockburn wrote, "Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck."
August 28, 2008
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By PHILLIP ALDER
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Coffee Break
TORONTO - A U.S. Army specialist who fled Fort Bragg for Canada after learning his unit was to be deployed to Iraq was ordered deported Wednesday.
August 28, 2008
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BY ROB GILLIES
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
OUTSIDE GORI, Georgia - Russian troops and paramilitaries rolled into the strategic Georgian city of Gori on Wednesday, apparently violating a truce designed to end the conflict that has uprooted tens of thousands and scarred the Georgian landscape.
August 28, 2008
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By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA and MATTI FRIEDMAN
Associated Press Writers
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Associated Press
ECI: The Season - Episode 1
August 27, 2008
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VINCE JOHNSON
vjohnson@statesboroherald.com
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ECI: The Season
NEW YORK - Former Justice Department officials will not face prosecution for letting improper political considerations drive hirings of prosecutors, immigration judges and other career government lawyers, Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Tuesday.
August 27, 2008
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By MARK SHERMAN
Associated Press Writer
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National
ROME - The U.N. will provide $214 million in food assistance to 16 impoverished areas to help ease the effects of high food and oil prices, its food agency said Tuesday.
August 27, 2008
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By ALESSANDRA RIZZO
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
SRINAGAR, India - Indian forces shot and killed at least 13 Muslim protesters on Tuesday as tens of thousands of people defied a blanket curfew in Indian Kashmir, the bloodiest day in nearly two months of unrest that has rocked this long-troubled Himalayan region.
August 27, 2008
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By AIJAZ HUSSAIN
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The government owns hundreds of underground fuel tanks - many designed for emergencies back in the Cold War - that need to be inspected for leaks of hazardous substances that could be making local water undrinkable.
August 27, 2008
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By EILEEN SULLIVAN
Associated Press Writer
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Washington
WASHINGTON - The U.S. trade deficit has gone on a diet, helped by strong exports of farm products and manufactured goods and by Americans spending less as the economy limps along.
August 27, 2008
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By MARTIN CRUTSINGER
Associated Press Writer
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Washington
TBILISI, Georgia - Russia ordered a halt to the war in Georgia on Tuesday, after five days of air and land attacks that sent Georgia's army into headlong retreat and left towns, military bases and homes in the U.S. ally smoldering. Georgia insisted that Russian forces were still bombing and shelling.
August 27, 2008
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By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA and MISHA DZHINDZHIKHASHVILI
Associated Press Writer
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Associated Press
EASTON, Mass. - A small plane carrying a cancer patient to Boston went into a nosedive and crashed Tuesday in a grocery store parking lot, killing all three people on board, authorities said. It was the third fatal crash in as many months of a charity flight carrying a patient to medical treatment.
August 27, 2008
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By RODRIQUE NGOWI
Associated Press Writer
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National
