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          <title>Jury acquits former Marine in killing of Iraqis</title>
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A former Marine accused of killing unarmed Iraqi detainees was acquitted of voluntary manslaughter Thursday in a first-of-its-kind federal trial that ended with some of the jurors shaking hands and hugging the defendant and his sobbing mother.
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          <title>Small GPS devices help prosecutors win convictions</title>
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Like millions of motorists, Eric Hanson used a GPS unit in his Chevrolet TrailBlazer to find his way around. He probably didn&#8217;t expect that prosecutors would eventually use it too &#8212; to help convict him of killing four family members.
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          <title>Walkway collapses in San Diego, injuring 16</title>
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A block-long covered walkway next to a construction scaffold collapsed on Thursday, trapping and injuring 16 pedestrians, three critically.
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          <title>As Gustav nears, Gulf Coast puts faith in planning</title>
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With Gustav approaching hurricane strength and showing no signs of veering off a track to slam into the Gulf Coast, authorities across the region began laying the groundwork Thursday to get the sick, elderly and poor away from the shoreline.
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          <title>Over 80,000 pack stadium for Obama&#8217;s acceptance speech</title>
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Surrounded by an enormous, adoring crowd, Barack Obama promised a clean break from the &#8220;broken politics in Washington and the failed policies of George W. Bush&#8221; Thursday night as he embarked on the final lap of his audacious bid to become the nation&#8217;s first black president.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:28:00 CDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Clinton impeachment prosecutor on Fla. high court</title>
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Appellate Judge Charles Canady, who as a congressman helped prosecute then-President Bill Clinton at his 1999 impeachment trial, was appointed Thursday to the Florida Supreme Court by Gov. Charlie Crist.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:21:00 CDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Obama plays some hoops, works on speech</title>
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Obama accepts the Democratic nomination Thursday night at Denver&#8217;s Invesco Field at Mile High.
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          <title>Rapper DMX pleads out Florida drug case</title>
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Rapper DMX has pleaded out a Miami drug case.
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          <title>Administration wants changes in workplace rules</title>
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The Bush administration is proposing that workplace hazard standards be subject to more public and expert scrutiny before being adopted. Critics say the proposals could make it harder to limit worker exposure to carcinogens and other toxic materials.
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          <title>Arrest reopens mystery of missing Calif. couple</title>
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Linda Sohus was a towering blonde fantasy buff who liked to paint unicorns. Her husband, Jonathan, was a diminutive computer programmer working at a NASA lab who shared his wife&#8217;s passion for science fiction.
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          <title>&#8216;There&#8217;s a lot left on the menu&#8217;</title>
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Local woman offers cookbook that caters to those with more than one health problem. Those interested meeting the author may visit Chipola Rover Book and Tea in downtown Marianna on Oct. 4 for a book signing.
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          <title>Man arrested for burglary, stealing checks</title>
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A man was arrested Wednesday for allegedly stealing checks from a house where he had been doing yard work, according to authorities.
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          <title>Watch out for Gustav</title>
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Jackson County Emergency Management Director Rodney Andreasen is hoping residents will pay close attention to Tropical Storm Gustav.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:08:00 CDT</pubDate>
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          <title>House burglars nabbed</title>
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Two men were arrested on Wednesday just a few streets down from the house they allegedly burglarized twice in one week. One of the alleged burglars, an Altha man, was arrested for burglarizing his grandmother&#8217;s Marianna home.
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          <title>Death for man who kidnapped, murdered Idaho boy</title>
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A longtime sex offender was sentenced to death Wednesday for the 2005 kidnapping, torture and murder of a 9-year-old northern Idaho boy after federal jurors who watched video of some of the brutality deliberated just three hours.
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          <title>Husband gets guardianship in Schiavo&#45;like case</title>
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A judge on Wednesday granted temporary guardianship to the husband of a woman on a feeding tube in a case similar to the lengthy legal dispute over whether Terri Schiavo should be kept alive.


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          <title>Nervous New Orleans watches Gustav</title>
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On the eve of Hurricane Katrina&#8217;s third anniversary, a nervous New Orleans watched Wednesday as another storm threatened to test everything the city has rebuilt.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:30:00 CDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Hurricane recovery confronts low literacy rate</title>
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Three years after Katrina, residents of New Orleans are still buried in a blizzard of government paperwork. But for thousands of storm victims seeking federal aid, the challenge is made more difficult by a little-known obstacle: More than 40 percent of the city&#8217;s adults lack the literacy skills to comprehend basic government forms. And recovery programs have done little to ease the burden.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:30:00 CDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Gustav hits Haiti, drives up oil prices</title>
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Hurricane Gustav weakened to tropical storm Tuesday as it dumped torrential rains on southern Haiti, killing at least one man and threatening crops amid protests over high food prices. Oil prices rose on fears the storm could batter oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.
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          <title>Professor&#8217;s body found in burned Idaho home</title>
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Firefighters discovered the body of Mary Ellen Ryder in one of the nearly 20 homes destroyed or damaged in the blaze. The professor of English and linguistics had been scheduled to teach her first class of the semester Tuesday.
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          <title>Colleges confront shootings with survival training</title>
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Hundreds of colleges across the nation have purchased a training program that teaches professors and students not to take campus threats lying down but to fight back with any &#8220;improvised weapon,&#8221; from a backpack to a laptop computer.


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          <title>Files untangle tales from missing Fla. girl&#8217;s mom</title>
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Casey Anthony tried to give her missing 3-year-old daughter up for adoption before she was born, but her mother wouldn&#8217;t let her, according to legal documents that paint the 22-year-old Florida woman as a perplexed, scheming and unbalanced person who repeatedly defended obvious lies in police reports.


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          <title>2008 primaries: The numbers are in</title>
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Tuesday night&#8217;s local election totals revealed big losses for some incumbents and landslide victories for others, while the hotly contested Jackson County Sheriff&#8217;s race was narrowed from 10 to just four candidates.
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          <title>Unofficial totals are in: Update 3</title>
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The Jackson County Supervisor of Elections Office announced unofficial absentee and early voting totals at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
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          <title>Hurricane Gustav hits Haiti, drives up oil prices</title>
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Hurricane Gustav barreled into Haiti on Tuesday, toppling trees, dumping rain and sending global fuel prices soaring on fears the storm could become &#8220;extremely dangerous&#8221; when it reaches the Gulf of Mexico.
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          <title>World&#8217;s first nuclear reactor now a landmark</title>
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The world&#8217;s first full-scale nuclear reactor, built in 13 months to produce plutonium for an atomic bomb during World War II, is now a National Historic Landmark, the federal government announced Monday.
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          <title>Bush opposes independence for 2 regions in Georgia</title>
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President Bush appealed to Russia&#8217;s president Monday to ignore the advice of lawmakers and refrain from recognizing Georgia&#8217;s breakaway regions as independent.
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          <title>Today&#8217;s results determine November ballot</title>
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Two members of the Jackson County School Board will be voted into office tonight. All other offices open to this year&#8217;s election are partisan. That means one republican and one democratic candidate for each office will be selected from today&#8217;s election to be featured on the November ballot.
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          <title>Texas students pack bookbags; teachers pack heat</title>
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Along with normal first-day jitters and excitement, students in this tiny district started school Monday wondering which teachers might be toting firearms.
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          <title>8 inmates escape from NM jail, including murderer</title>
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Eight inmates, including a convicted murderer and another man charged with murder, escaped from a county jail by cutting a hole in the roof, authorities said Monday.
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          <title>MPD officer stops runaway van</title>
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Marianna police officer Cheree Edwards probably expected to be chasing down criminals when she signed on with the Marianna Police Department, but perhaps she didn&#8217;t anticipate chasing down runaway vans.
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          <title>Radio exec mourned by WJAQ/WTOT family</title>
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Local radio executive Ed Cearley III was found dead of natural causes in his home Monday, authorities say.
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          <title>Marathon hunt ends in gator&#8217;s capture</title>
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Alligator season opened in Florida on Aug. 15, and in the wee hours of Aug. 25, a band of local &#8216;gator hunters had landed one of their biggest catches ever.
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          <title>Series of tornado warnings issued on stormy Jackson County Monday</title>
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A series of tornado warnings were issued all around Jackson County at various times Monday evening.
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          <title>Attorney General: Fay&#8217;s wake could bring scams</title>
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Attorney General encourages Floridians who are victims of flooding to be alert for contractors who offer water removal services from homes and property or other repair services in the wake of the storm.
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          <title>U.S. Dept. of Labor: $20M grant to Fla. for Fay recovery</title>
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U.S. Department of Labor announces $20 million in aid to Florida for recovery from Tropical Storm Fay
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The remnants of Tropical Storm Fay spread over a wide swath of the South on Monday, bringing heavy rain and wind from Georgia to Louisiana that many hoped would help land parched for months by drought conditions.
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A national survey shows gas prices have dropped 15 cents a gallon in the last two weeks.
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          <pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:30:00 CDT</pubDate>
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Across the country, from grain elevator to grain elevator, golden wheat and corn are piled in towering mounds, waiting for a rail car to haul them to market. Some grain can sit for a month or more on the ground, exposed to wind, rain and rats.
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Flooding left behind by Tropical Storm Fay forced residents in parts of northern Florida out of their homes Sunday.
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Jackson County employee returns lost gun. &#8220;I want people to know that they have people working for Jackson County that really have integrity,&#8221; said Tadlock.
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Several Internet service providers are moving to curb the growth of traffic on their networks, or at least make the subscribers who download the most pay more.
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          <pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:30:00 CDT</pubDate>
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Democratic delegates from Michigan and Florida were awarded full voting rights at the national convention Sunday, despite holding early primaries against party rules.
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President Bush declared Sunday that four Florida counties hit hardest by Tropical Storm Fay are major disaster areas, making them eligible for federal aid.
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Shangri-la may have started as a mythical paradise in the imagination of Lost Horizon author James Hilton, but it is a very real place in Jackson County.
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          <title>BACK TO SCHOOL: Schools separate ninth&#45;graders</title>
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Ninth grade, often the first year of high school, is a critical time when many students sink or swim while coping with new academic responsibilities and learning the oh-so-important social hierarchy.


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An analysis of recent earthquake activity around New York City has found that many small faults that were believed to be inactive could contribute to a major, disastrous earthquake.


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Fay just won&#8217;t quit. The tropical storm that set a record with four landfalls in Florida chugged west across the Gulf Coast on Saturday and cities from Pensacola to New Orleans prepared for several inches of rain.
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          <title>Clashing views of MIT grad suspected of terrorism</title>
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To supporters, Aafia Siddiqui is a devout Muslim, a scholar educated at MIT and Brandeis, who fled to Pakistan after 9/11 because of anti-Muslim sentiment.
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A Jackson County juvenile was arrested in Wausau Friday for the theft of an all terrain vehicle.
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          <title>Lineman killed at work in Gadsden</title>
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A Talquin Electric employee died Friday when he came in contact with an electric conductor, according to the electric cooperative.
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          <title>Arrests made in scrap metal and vehicle thefts</title>
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An anonymous phone call led to the arrest of two Bonifay men Thursday, according to the Holmes County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.
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          <pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:01:00 CDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Trees come down in Jackson County</title>
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According to officials at the Jackson County Emergency Operations Center,  the biggest problem brought on by Fay appeared to be roadways being blocked by fallen trees.
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          <title>Officials: No Jackson County roads closed to flooding so far</title>
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While frozen foods might have been a little harder to come by in some areas of Jackson County, no roads had been closed and severe no flooding had been reported by emergency officials as of Saturday afternoon.
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          <title>11 a.m. UPDATE &#45; Tropical Storm Fay moves through the Panhandle</title>
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National Weather Service in Tallahassee&#8217;s 11 a.m. Tropical Storm Fay update.
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          <pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:24:00 CDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Official: Obama picks Biden for veep</title>
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Barack Obama selected Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware late Friday night to be his vice presidential running mate, according to a Democratic official.
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          <title>On the 5th day of Fay, cleanup begins in Fla.</title>
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As Tropical Storm Fay finally got on track Friday to leave Florida behind, flood-stricken homeowners got an encouraging sign: Muddy brown water lines began appearing on the sides of homes, a clue that flood waters were receding.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:45:00 CDT</pubDate>
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Authorities are now investigating four bodies found off the Florida Keys in the span of the past two days.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:28:00 CDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Jackson County officials: What to expect with Fay</title>
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The Jackson County Emergency Management Agency warns residents of heavy rains, potential flooding and heavy wind gusts.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:07:00 CDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Grand jury issues 3 indictments in polygamist case</title>
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A grand jury issued three new felony indictments Thursday against members of a polygamist sect raided here in April.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:30:00 CDT</pubDate>
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The mother of a missing toddler was released from jail on $500,000 bail Thursday and returned to her parents&#8217; home, where authorities will monitor her with an electronic ankle device.
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An auto body shop worker was convicted and swiftly sentenced to life in prison Thursday for grooming children as young as 5 to perform in sex shows at a small-town swingers club.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:30:00 CDT</pubDate>
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A student fatally shot a 15-year-old classmate Thursday at a high school, police said, as other teenagers watched in horror as the victim clutched his chest and fell to the floor.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:30:00 CDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Approaching storm sparks vivid memories</title>
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Tommy Mazzullo is a relatively new resident of Jackson County, and it was a storm that brought him here.
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          <title>Former Marianna prison worker claims exposure to toxic materials at computer recycling operation</title>
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Freda Cobb&#8217;s three-ring binder is filled with more than 200 pages, most of them detailing 11 years of ailments, doctor visits and prescription information.
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As farmers rode around together in wagons Thursday on their annual Peanut Field Day trek, the overcast skies above them held both a promise and a threat.
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The Jackson County Health Department is urging the public to avoid carbon monoxide (CO) exposure by taking precautions with gas-powered appliances and charcoal or gas grills.
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As if heavy rain from Tropical Storm Fay wasn&#8217;t enough, weary residents are now dealing with quintessentially Floridian fallout: alligators, snakes and other critters.
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 As of late Thursday, Jackson County School Superintendent Danny Sims planned to keep local schools open Friday rather than closing them as Tropical Storm Fay continues moving westward.
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When a high school senior told her principal that students were taunting her for being a lesbian, he told her homosexuality is wrong, outed her to her parents and ordered her to stay away from children.


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          <title>Amish population nearly doubles in 16 years</title>
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The Amish are expanding their presence in states far beyond Pennsylvania Dutch country as they search for affordable farmland to accommodate a population that has nearly doubled in the past 16 years, a new study found.
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Due to possible impact from Tropical Storm Fay, Gulf and Jackson Counties have declared a Local State of Emergency. 


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Iraqi and U.S. negotiators have completed a draft security agreement that would see American troops leave Iraqi cities as soon as June 30, Iraqi and American officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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Hundreds of central Florida homes flooded Wednesday as Tropical Storm Fay drenched the state for a third consecutive day, and forecasters warned the waters could worsen because the storm had stubbornly stalled.
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The town of Grand Ridge has almost finished installing the sewer collection lines that will help get citizens on a central wastewater treatment system and abandon their individual septic tanks.
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Jackson County Commissioners want their administrator to negotiate with the city of Marianna to figure out an equitable cost-sharing plan for fire service issues that currently have the two governing bodies at odds.
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The Jackson County School Board opened its monthly meeting to a packed house Tuesday, when students from around the district were recognized for their FCAT scores.
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Sneads had the eerie experience of total isolation Wednesday when phone service to the outside world went out all over town.
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It was recently announced that students at Marianna High School will be asked to pay class dues beginning this year to ease the need for fund raising throughout the school year.


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A 14-year-old girl allegedly married to jailed polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs with her parents&#8217; blessing at age 12 was ordered back into foster care Tuesday by a Texas judge.

District Judge Barbara Walther said that there was &#8220;uncontroverted evidence of the underage marriage&#8221; and that the girl&#8217;s mother, Barbara Jessop, refused to guarantee the girl&#8217;s safety. The girl, shown in photographs submitted to the court kissing Jeffs, must immediately enter foster care.
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Congressman Vern Buchanan&#8217;s 2005 campaign violated campaign finance law by pressuring employees at his car dealerships for money and reimbursing some for contributions, a watchdog group alleges in a complaint filed Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission.
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Tropical Storm Fay rolled ashore in southwestern Florida on Tuesday without much fanfare, but stubbornly hung around like an unwelcome houseguest, maintaining strength and threatening &#8212; once again &#8212; to become a hurricane.
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A Florida man was arrested after allegedly going on a violent rampage after a minor fender-bender, slashing and stabbing the occupants of a car, then running over and killing a woman who had been riding in another nearby vehicle.
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Anticipating possible flooding in the wake of the storm Fay, Jackson County Commissioners declared a local state of emergency Tuesday.
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After the novel&#8217;s presence in the Jackson County School District was challenged by a student&#8217;s parent, the Jackson County School Board voted to keep The Kite Runner.
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Jackson County Commissioners will seek bids on fuel station project.
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The Florida Supreme Court is getting a challenge to a ballot proposal that would trade a property tax cut for increases in other taxes.
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Jackson County Commissioners continued budget talks in a workshop Tuesday.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday that Russia is playing a &#8220;very dangerous game&#8221; with the U.S. and its allies and warned that NATO would not allow Moscow to win in Georgia, destabilize Europe or draw a new Iron Curtain through the continent.
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          <title>FBI had, then tossed anthrax type used in attacks</title>
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Months after the deadly 2001 anthrax mailings, FBI scientists had &#8212; but destroyed &#8212; the unique strain of the bacteria used in the attacks that years later would lead them to Dr. Bruce Ivins, now the government&#8217;s top suspect.
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A semi overturned on Interstate 10 near Grand Ridge Tuesday morning, causing authorities to reroute traffic until at least 11 a.m., according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
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Quadruple murder suspect Wesley Williams appeared in court Tuesday with his lawyer requesting a new trial date.
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The cousin of a month-old girl who was burned to death in a microwave told friends that he was responsible for putting her in the oven, a defense attorney said Monday during opening statements in the retrial of the child&#8217;s mother.
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Three teens were ordered Monday to stand trial in the beating death of an illegal immigrant from Mexico after a friend of the defendants testified that the victim was sucker-punched and kicked in the head during a late-night, epithet-filled melee.
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The Jackson County Drug Task Force and Chipley Police Department have released the names of more than 30 people arrested in a four-month-long methamphetamine investigation across three Florida counties.
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Although Tropical Storm Fay is not expected to reach hurricane strength and, as of late Monday, was tracking toward a landfall near Cedar Key, well southeast of Jackson County, the storm could still affect this region.
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Imagine walking through a dark cave, with nothing but hand-held flashlights casting curious shadows on cave formations.&nbsp;
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The first day of school went well here, said  Jackson County Superintendent of Schools Danny Sims an hour or so after the last school bell rang on Monday afternoon.


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Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced the activation of the Attorney General&#8217;s Price Gouging Hotline for Tropical Storm Fay.
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Florida Keys officials closed schools, opened shelters and urged visitors to leave as Tropical Storm Fay threatened to strengthen into a hurricane Sunday, but residents and some tourists seemed in no hurry to evacuate.
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