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          <title>Trustees OK dual degree program</title>
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Auburn University students who qualify academically will be able to complete both a bachelor&#8217;s and master&#8217;s degree in four years, starting next semester.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Two face multiple charges in area burglaries</title>
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Two face multiple charges in area burglaries           ]]></description>
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Gov. Bob Riley has directed flags on state government buildings to be flown at half-staff until sunset Tuesday as a tribute to those killed at Fort Hood, Texas           ]]></description>
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          <title>Battle over no&#45;bid contract having impact outside Ala.</title>
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The battle over an unbid $13 million computer contract is beginning to have an impact on how other state contracts are awarded.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Ex&#45;aide: Miss. Indian casinos gave to Riley</title>
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A former member of Gov. Bob Riley&#8217;s Cabinet claimed Thursday that Riley received campaign contributions from Mississippi Indians who operate casinos, with the money intended to limit their competition in Alabama.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Kia appeals to laid&#45;off plant workers</title>
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Days after the doors to Opelika&#8217;s BFGoodrich tire manufacturing plant closed for good, those at Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia opened up indefinitely.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Family, friends honor fallen Opelika soldier</title>
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Friends and family gathered at Jeffcoat-Trant Funeral Home Thursday to pay tribute to Adrian L. Avila, 19, who died Oct. 29 of injuries sustained in a non-combat-related accident while supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom in Kuwait.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Opelika also considers cable contract</title>
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Auburn isn&#8217;t the only city interested in providing a variety of cable companies for its residents.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Sparks: unapproved substance found in fish imports</title>
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Alabama Agriculture and Industries Commissioner Ron Sparks has extended a two-year-old order banning the sale of untested fish from Vietnam and China in Alabama.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Alabama battle over no&#45;bid contract having impact</title>
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The battle over an unbid $13 million computer contract is beginning to have an impact on how other state contracts are awarded.            ]]></description>
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A second Tuskegee University police officer has been indicted in connection with the alleged October rape of a 15-year-old girl.           ]]></description>
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          <title>First Aubie the Tiger recalls debut on the Plains</title>
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One of Auburn University&#8217;s most ardent football fans once loved the Crimson Tide.           ]]></description>
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          <title>PACT board shifts focus to non&#45;politicians</title>
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MONTGOMERY &#8212; The board that oversees Alabama&#8217;s Prepaid Affordable College Tuition plan is switching from politicians to non-politicians to try to negotiate a solution to the program&#8217;s $346 million deficit.           ]]></description>
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          <title>CANNING CORRUPTION: Alabama GOP targets Democrats in ad campaign</title>
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MONTGOMERY &#8212; The Alabama Republican Party has a new campaign video filled with lots of Democrats &#8212; the convicted kind.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Local photographer supports food bank</title>
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As a photographer for more than 30 years, focusing on his subjects has always been part of the job for Charlie Jernigan, owner of Jernigan Photography.
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          <title>Police plan next move in baby death probe</title>
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MONTGOMERY &#8212; Montgomery police have labeled the search for a missing baby as a death investigation.           ]]></description>
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          <title>&#8216;Miracle Worker&#8217; play coming to local theater</title>
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Once locked in a world of silence, love and patience would be the keys that would set her free.
That drama will take place on stage this weekend when the Auburn Area Community Theatre presents the &#8220;Miracle Worker&#8221; by William Gibson, the story of Helen Keller&#8217;s childhood and struggle to learn to communicate with others as she copes with being deaf and blind with the help of Annie Sullivan, a governess.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Study: Alabama income tax on working poor harshest</title>
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A new national study shows Alabama levies more income tax on families living in poverty than any other state.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Watch the 2010 Alabama Gubernatorial Forum</title>
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You can watch the entire 2010 Alabama Gubernatorial Forum here at OANow.com           ]]></description>
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          <title>Tamara Barnes: Diabetics must learn to adapt, be careful even as youth</title>
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My name is Tamara Barnes and I am a juvenile diabetic. I was diagnosed with Type I (juvenile) diabetes at the age of five and immediately began insulin injections. This was the most terrifying experience in my life and I&#8217;m sure this is true for many insulin-dependent diabetics. One memory I will always have is the memory of my parents chasing me through the house to give my first insulin shot. I saw my mother break down and cry for the very first time in my life.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Evangelist Will Graham coming to Auburn</title>
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Will Graham, the grandson of famed evangelist Billy Graham, will come to Auburn March 26-28 for the East Alabama West Georgia Will Graham Celebration at Beard-Eaves-Memorial Coliseum on the Auburn University campus.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Michelin Development opens office in Opelika</title>
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Michelin Development opened its office for East Alabama Tuesday morning and announced that it would began taking applications for $2 millions in low-interest loans to qualified start-up, small- and medium-sized companies in the area.
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Auburn residents will have another choice for a cable provider, but no one knows when it will happen.
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Montgomery police officers were searching a landfill in Salem Tuesday for an infant  they believe may have been  placed in the trash.           ]]></description>
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The election may be more than a year off but you wouldn&#8217;t have known it by the turnout at the Alabama Gubernatorial Forum 2010 at Auburn University Tuesday.           ]]></description>
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The Opelika City Council and Opelika Mayor Gary Fuller honored the Opelika fireman of the year, Capt. K. Phillip Hope, for his hard work and 22 years of service to the Opelika Fire Department at the Opelika City Council meeting Tuesday night.           ]]></description>
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KMMG Opens Application Process for Second Wave of Hiring           ]]></description>
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          <title>UPDATE: Montgomery Police search Lee County landfill for infant, find nothing</title>
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Montgomery police officers were in Lee County today searching a landfill in Salem for an infant who they believe may have been delivered and placed in the trash.           ]]></description>
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          <title>LIVE EVENT: OANow.com to stream gubernatorial debate</title>
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The event, which begins at 7 p.m. in the AU Student Center ballroom, is expected to include Republicans Robert Bentley, Bradley Byrne, Kay Ivey, Tim James and Bill Johnson, and Democrats Artur Davis and Ron Sparks. Jeremy Campbell, a reporter with ABC 33/40 in Birmingham, will moderate the discussion.           ]]></description>
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Visitation hours for John &#8220;Stump&#8221; Thrower, a 56-year-old radio personality from Auburn who was found dead Monday, is 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at Jeffcoat-Trant Funeral Home. A graveside service will be Thursday at 11 a.m. at Rosemere Cemetery in Opelika.           ]]></description>
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Kia Motors says it will reopen the application process for production and maintenance jobs at its new assembly plant in West Point.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Opelika police arrest suspect in Dollar General robbery</title>
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Opelika police arrested Gredarius Stefan Brooks, 17, of Lanett at 11:30 a.m. Friday and charged him with four counts of robbery, said Opelika police Capt. Allan Elkins.           ]]></description>
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An Opelika serviceman died Thursday of injuries sustained in a non-combat related accident while supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom in Khabari Crossing, Kuwait.           ]]></description>
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Auburn residents may soon have a choice when it comes to cable providers.           ]]></description>
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Local radio personality and newspaper columnist John &#8220;Stump&#8221; Thrower was found dead in his Auburn home Monday morning. He was 56.
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Alabama Gov. Bob Riley is leading a delegation of government leaders on an economic development trip to Colombia           ]]></description>
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Leonard H. Billups, DVM, DACVP, was the director of Diagnostics Laboratory Services for Tuskegee&#8217;s College of Veterinary Medicine, Nursing and Allied Health.
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Rosemary Latrice Newsome, 30, who was tried and acquitted in 2008 of the murder of former Opelika-Auburn News dock worker James &#8220;Captain&#8221; Heard, has died after an extended illness.            ]]></description>
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Members of several area churches gathered Sunday at Union Hill CME Church in the Oak Bowery community to celebrate how a church is much more than a building.
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Tickets are going fast for a debate at Auburn University on Tuesday between the seven people vying to be candidates in the race for the next governor of Alabama.           ]]></description>
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AU honors faculty at awards ceremony           ]]></description>
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Fall in Alabama unfolds a patchwork quilt of color as the greens of summer turn to glittering yellow poplars, scarlet dogwoods, orange maples and golden hickories.           ]]></description>
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MONTGOMERY &#8212; The State Board of Education picked a Georgia educator Friday to become chancellor of Alabama&#8217;s two-year college system and help lead it back from a financial scandal that brought down a former chancellor.           ]]></description>
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TUSCALOOSA &#8212; Newspaper publisher and longtime mental health advocate Paul Davis resigned from the Alabama Department of Mental Health&#8217;s board of trustees Thursday.           ]]></description>
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Bennie Coulter waited in the parking lot at BFGoodrich in Opelika Friday afternoon to greet his fellow co-workers as they left work for the final time and to watch the 46-year-old tire manufacturing plant close its doors forever.           ]]></description>
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A Lee County jury found a former Russell County Sheriff&#8217;s corrections officer not guilty of killing his son-in-law last October.
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Two nights before Halloween, children flock to the streets in Opelika, Auburn for trick-or-treating.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Cars rolling off the assembly line at Kia</title>
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It&#8217;s no longer months or weeks until Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia starts production of the 2011 Sorento. It&#8217;s now days.
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          <title>Suit filed in Alabama to stop $13 million contract</title>
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A legislative oversight committee went to court Thursday to stop a $13 million no-bid computer contract between Gov. Bob Riley&#8217;s administration and a company with no listed business phone number and no Web page.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Opelika crash victim was 26</title>
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Opelika police said a passenger killed in a three-car traffic accident Wednesday night has been identified as Sarah Michelle Ware of Opelika.
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          <title>Award&#45;winning &#8216;Brighton Beach Memoirs&#8217; coming to AU stage</title>
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An author once said a family is a lot like fudge: mostly sweet with a few nuts. All those emotional ingredients will come together on the stage next month when Auburn University&#8217;s Department of Theatre presents the three-time Tony and New York Drama Critics Award-winning play &#8220;Brighton Beach Memoirs.&#8221;
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The director general of the Taiwanese Taipei Economic and Cultural Office of Atlanta is the most recent in a list of dignitaries to visit the Auburn University campus this semester.
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The Lee County jury will continue its deliberations Thursday morning in the murder case of a former Russell County Sheriff&#8217;s corrections officer accused of killing his son-in-law last October.
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One passenger was killed in a three-vehicle accident on Marvyn Parkway Wednesday night in Opelika.
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The Lee County Health Department administered about 600 H1N1 flu shots on Wednesday at the county&#8217;s first H1N1 clinic.
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A Valley legislator has called for the University of Alabama at Birmingham to reverse a recent decision to extend health insurance benefits to same sex partners of employees, an offer the campus says will make it more competitive in recruiting faculty.
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          <title>Birmingham mayor: Corrupt or generous shopaholic?</title>
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Prosecutors accuse Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford of selling out the public in a bribery scheme that showered him with tens of thousands of dollars in cash, luxury clothes and expensive jewelry in exchange for lucrative government bond work.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Military voting bill expected to speed up process</title>
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A bill that has passed Congress and been signed by President Barack Obama would streamline the process for military personnel overseas to cast ballots in Alabama elections. 
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          <title>Ex&#45;pastor faces 152 counts in sex abuse case</title>
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The former pastor of an Andalusia church is facing 152 charges stemming from allegations he sexually abused and tortured young boys while on camping trips.            ]]></description>
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          <title>No tricks, just treats: Tips for staying safe on Halloween</title>
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No tricks, just treats: Tips for staying safe on Halloween           ]]></description>
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          <title>East Alabama gets its fair share of rain</title>
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East Alabama gets its fair share of rain           ]]></description>
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          <title>Vaccines at Lee clinic today</title>
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Vaccines at Lee clinic today           ]]></description>
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          <title>BFGoodrich to close doors Friday</title>
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The Opelika BFGoodrich plant will officially close its doors Friday afternoon, said Tate Hoxworth, a representative of Michelin North America, the parent company of BFGoodrich.           ]]></description>
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The Opelika City Schools board of education voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a policy that requires students to stay in school until they are 17 years old.           ]]></description>
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For September, Alabama had the 10th highest unemployment rate among the 50 states. It also recorded the nation&#8217;s third-fastest growth in unemployment for the last year. 
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The Opelika Fall Festival, scheduled for today at 6 p.m. at the Opelika Sportsplex, has been canceled due to rain.
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          <title>Riley wants to know about pass through funds</title>
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Gov. Bob Riley has ordered college and university presidents to notify him if elected officials attempt to hide spending in their districts by transferring money through their schools           ]]></description>
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          <title>PREP BLITZ: Don&#8217;t forget to vote for this week&#8217;s Player of the Week</title>
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Voting ends tonight at midnight!&nbsp; Hurry up and vote!           ]]></description>
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Opelika&#8217;s annual Fall Festival and Children&#8217;s Carnival set for Tuesday night           ]]></description>
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Although Halloween isn&#8217;t until Saturday, dogs and their owners made their way to downtown Opelika in costume on Monday for the annual Howl&#8217;oWeen Pet Parade and Costume Contest.
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Lee Co. takes no further action on broadband resolution           ]]></description>
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          <title>Ala. Guard unit going to Afghanistan</title>
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An Alabama Army National Guard unit is preparing to begin a mission in Afghanistan           ]]></description>
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          <title>Rep. Lea Fite of Jacksonville dies Monday morning</title>
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State Rep. Lea Fite of Jacksonville has died at his home. He was 59           ]]></description>
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          <title>5K, festival benefits Auburn schools</title>
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5K, festival benefits Auburn schools           ]]></description>
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A historic marker was unveiled Sunday afternoon at Chewacla State Park in Auburn to honor the men of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) who built the park in the 1930s and early 1940s.           ]]></description>
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson visited Tuskegee University on Sunday night to host a forum on credit card practices and the impact of the national economic stimulus.           ]]></description>
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The entire history of the Opelika Fire Department, or at least from 1854 (when the city was organized) to 2008, is now available in the book &#8220;This History of the Fire Department in Opelika, Alabama.&#8221;           ]]></description>
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Although the Opelika-Auburn News Fight Hunger food drive was a little slower than last year, there was a steady stream of shoppers donating non-perishable food items to the cause at the Opelika Walmart on Saturday.           ]]></description>
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The smell of biscuits was in the air and cars lined Highway 14 going into Loachapoka early Saturday morning as thousands of people made their way to the 37th annual Syrup Sopping Day and the Lee County Historical Fair, two annual events that take place each year at the end of October.           ]]></description>
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Senior al-Qaida leaders are forging deeper relationships with Pakistani militants and often operating from their camps inside the Pakistan border, fueling Obama administration arguments for a shift in the Afghan war strategy that more narrowly targets the terrorists.
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 Russia&#8217;s president on Saturday defended recent local elections that drew fraud allegations, inspired an opposition walkout of parliament and strengthened the Kremlin&#8217;s grip on power.           ]]></description>
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Germany&#8217;s new center-right coalition government pledged Saturday to reform the health-care system, cut taxes and pull all remaining nuclear weapons from the country, a promise that could hurt relations with NATO already strained over the military deployment in Afghanistan.           ]]></description>
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A summit between the two Koreas should help resolve the dispute over North Korea&#8217;s nuclear programs, a South Korea official said Saturday, as a negotiator for the North arrived in the U.S. in likely pursuit of bilateral talks with Washington.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:16:28 CST</pubDate>
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A powerful earthquake struck deep under the sea in eastern Indonesia on Saturday, causing panic and sending residents running out of their homes, officials and witnesses said. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Earnings reports to give picture of job market</title>
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Wall Street may be roaring again and manufacturers see a bright future selling their wares in Asia. But for many Americans, it&#8217;s still a downturn until the jobs come back.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:09:30 CST</pubDate>
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          <title>Jury unable to reach verdict in rape case</title>
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A Lee County Circuit Court judge declared a mistrial Friday after the jury selected to hear the case against an Opelika man charged with the rape of an elderly woman was unable to reach a verdict after several hours of deliberation.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:07:13 CST</pubDate>
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Carlton and Becky Moore will have their 40-foot boat, SeaMoore, all to themselves when they embark on their 6,000-mile trip next year.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:47:42 CST</pubDate>
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          <title>John Houston: Public officials display lack of understanding for mental health system</title>
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In recent weeks there have been numerous news articles or editorials regarding the possible sale of the Bryce property to the University of Alabama or other issues involving the Department of Mental Health and the Tuscaloosa community. I will not attempt to address all the issues that have been raised but will address some of the more pertinent matters of public discourse.           ]]></description>
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LOACHAPOKA &#8211; Members of the Lee County Historical Society are ready to welcome tens of thousands of visitors to the 38th annual Historic Fair and its Syrup Sopping Day across the highway in the tiny historic town of Loachapoka on Saturday.           ]]></description>
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Tuition at Southern Union State Community College and other two-year schools in the state will increase for the first time in five years after the state board of education approved a 19.7 percent increase Thursday.           ]]></description>
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The Friends of the Auburn Library hope for clear skies and lots of buyers at their annual book sale Saturday, which benefits the Auburn Public Library.           ]]></description>
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State schools Superintendent Joe Morton unveiled a plan Thursday to deal with budget cuts for fiscal year 2011 partly by making teachers pay more for health insurance and retirement benefits.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:04:11 CST</pubDate>
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The Navy&#8217;s need for speed is being answered by a pair of warships that have reached freeway speeds during testing at sea.           ]]></description>
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A Republican legislator plans to outline a package of proposed bills to rescue Alabama&#8217;s financially troubled prepaid college tuition program.
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Members of the area media got an inside look at this year&#8217;s Trail of Terror Haunted Hayride at Spring Villa Park Wednesday.           ]]></description>
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Rape trial continues this week           ]]></description>
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Chinese ambassador visits AU           ]]></description>
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Second annual Fight Hunger food drive this Saturday           ]]></description>
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