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          <title>House narrowly passes health care bill</title>
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WASHINGTON  &#8212; In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation Saturday night to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the insurance industry. Republican opposition was nearly unanimous.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Local photographer hosts food drive with Santa</title>
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Local photographer host food drive with Santa
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          <title>No further information released on pedestrian struck by car</title>
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No further information released on pedestrian struck by car            ]]></description>
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          <title>Annual Ag Roundup draws hungry crowds</title>
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Annual Ag Roundup draws hungry crowds           ]]></description>
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          <title>Blessings abound</title>
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St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church to dedicate new student center           ]]></description>
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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>
          <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:32:11 CST</pubDate>
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          <title>Riley orders flags at half&#45;staff on Ala. buildings</title>
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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>
          <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:45:29 CST</pubDate>
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          <title>Fort Hood suspect said methodical goodbyes</title>
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As if going off to war, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan cleaned out his apartment, gave leftover frozen broccoli to one neighbor and called another to thank him for his friendship &#8212; common courtesies and routines of the departing soldier. Instead, authorities say, he went on the killing spree that left 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, dead           ]]></description>
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          <title>1 dead, 5 hurt in Orlando office shooting</title>
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A gunman opened fire Friday in the offices of an engineering firm where he was let go more than two years ago, authorities said, killing one person and injuring five others           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:16:49 CST</pubDate>
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          <title>Orlando office building locked down after shooting</title>
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Police have surrounded a Florida high-rise after gun shots were reportedly fired. The Legions Place office building in downtown Orlando was ordered on lockdown Friday afternoon as officers began a floor-by-floor evacuation.
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          <title>Troubling portrait emerges of Fort Hood suspect</title>
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His name appears on radical Internet postings. A fellow officer says he fought his deployment to Iraq and argued with soldiers who supported U.S. wars. He required counseling as a medical student because of problems with patients. There are many unknowns about Nidal Malik Hasan, the man authorities say is responsible for the worst mass killing on a U.S. military base.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Army: Suspect said &#8216;Allahu Akbar!&#8216; before shooting</title>
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The base commander at Fort Hood says soldiers who witnessed a shooting rampage that left 13 people dead reported that the gunman shouted &#8220;Allahu Akbar!&#8220; before opening fire at the Texas post.
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          <title>Alabama Power getting stimulus money for updates</title>
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The U.S. Department of Energy is allocating up to $6 million of federal stimulus money to help Alabama Power Co. upgrade electrical generating units at three dams on the Coosa River.
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          <title>Mix It Up at Lunch Day coming to Ala. schools</title>
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Several schools across Alabama will participate in &#8220;Mix It Up at Lunch Day&#8221; on Tuesday, Nov. 10.
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          <title>Elton John on mend, resuming tour dates</title>
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Elton John has been released from a London hospital after being treated for flu and an E. coli bacterial infection.
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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>
          <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:48:07 CST</pubDate>
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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>
          <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:46:54 CST</pubDate>
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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>Army: 12 dead, 31 hurt in Fort Hood shooting</title>
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An Army psychiatrist set to be shipped overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post Thursday, authorities said, a rampage that killed 12 people and left 31 wounded in the worst mass shooting ever at a military base in the United States.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Big Bird still huge as &#8216;Sesame Street&#8217; turns 40</title>
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Big Bird is leaving Sesame Street!

That&#8217;s what he decides on the &#8220;Sesame Street&#8221; season opener. A rapping real-estate agent pitches him on migrating to a new habitat (&#8220;habitat,&#8221; the episode&#8217;s &#8220;Word on the Street&#8221;). After sizing up a beach and a swamp for his new habitat, Big Bird chooses a rain forest.

But then he comes to his senses with a musical number.

&#8220;Sesame Street is my habitat!&#8221; he sings. &#8220;Sesame Street is my home!&#8221;           ]]></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>&#8216;Kill the bill,&#8216; protesters target health care</title>
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Chanting &#8220;Kill the bill,&#8220; thousands of conservatives incensed over the Democrats&#8217; health care overhaul protested at the Capitol on Thursday, arguing that the legislation amounts to a government takeover of the nation&#8217;s medical system           ]]></description>
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          <title>Army: 12 dead in attacks at Fort Hood, Texas</title>
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The U.S. Army says 12 people have been killed and 31 wounded in a shooting rampage on the Fort Hood Army base in Texas           ]]></description>
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          <title>12 dead, 31 wounded in Fort Hood shooting</title>
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The U.S. Army says 12 people have been killed and 31 wounded in a shooting rampage on the Fort Hood Army base in Texas.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Former Riley aid says Indians gave to campaign</title>
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A former member of Gov. Bob Riley&#8217;s Cabinet said 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>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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          <title>Majority leader: House will pass health bill</title>
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Majority Leader Steny Hoyer is predicting that the House will pass historic health care overhaul legislation Saturday to extend coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and ban insurance companies from turning people away.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Second Tuskegee officer indicted in child rape case</title>
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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>Smoot lawyer denies SEC claim of payments</title>
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A lawyer for Jefferson County Commissioner Shelia Smoot is denying government claims that she improperly directed payments from county bond deals to two small banking firms. 
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          <title>Letter to the editor: Voters can have impact on Legislature if they try</title>
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In April of 2005, I spoke before a committee of the Alabama House of Representatives in favor of a bill that, if passed, would have helped restore trust in our Legislature, saying, in part: 
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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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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>Voters who helped elect Obama stayed home</title>
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RICHMOND, Va. &#8212; Last year, 23-year-old Rashida Hill watched the presidential debates, visited the college political party meetings and put a Barack Obama bumper sticker on her townhouse door. She voted for Obama because she felt like the election was about &#8220;being a part of something.&#8220;           ]]></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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MONTGOMERY &#8212; Montgomery police have labeled the search for a missing baby as a death investigation.           ]]></description>
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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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A new national study shows Alabama levies more income tax on families living in poverty than any other state.           ]]></description>
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A South Carolina man caught on video having sex with a horse was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison after pleading guilty for the second time in two years to abusing the creature.            ]]></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>Mary Belk: Football turned into business for colleges</title>
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All the recent football frenzy started me thinking about Babylonian temples. That&#8217;s right &#8212; Babylonian temples.
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Birmingham mayor Larry Langford was found guilty last Wednesday on 60 counts of felony charges and removed from office.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:24:43 CST</pubDate>
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          <title>Fed likely to keep key interest rate at record low</title>
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Faced with lurking dangers to the budding recovery, Federal Reserve policymakers are sure to leave a key interest rate at a record low to entice Americans to spend more and help the economic turnaround gain traction           ]]></description>
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House Democrats cleared the way Wednesday for a pivotal floor vote on health care overhaul as early as the weekend, after tweaking their 1,900-page bill to crack down harder on insurance companies.           ]]></description>
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Independents who swept Barack Obama to a historic 2008 victory broke big for Republicans on Tuesday as the GOP wrested political control from Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey, a troubling sign for the president and his party heading into an important midterm election year           ]]></description>
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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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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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          <title>Thrower visitation, funeral times set</title>
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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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A federal judge has ruled that artist Daniel Moore did not violate trademark laws by painting scenes of University of Alabama football without licensing the work through the university. 
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I was remembering when I first moved to Opelika about 13 years ago. The first big Cityscape project was under way downtown. Courthouse square was being formed, sod was being laid and utilities were moving underground.           ]]></description>
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Dr. Lawrence Graham is Auburn University&#8217;s fire ant expert. One of his projects has been an introduction of a parasitic fly whose host is the fire ant. The fly deposits an egg on the ant&#8217;s back, it hatches, the larva penetrates the ant, makes its way to the ant&#8217;s head and the head falls off.           ]]></description>
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It&#8217;s better than a television advertisement. It&#8217;s better than a radio advertisement. It&#8217;s much better than a flier received in the mail.
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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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The Opelika fireman of the year will be honored at 7 p.m. tonight at the Opelika City Council meeting.           ]]></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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          <title>Watch the Prep Blitz Weekly filmed at Buffalo Connection</title>
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Sit down with Mike, David, Tim, and Andrew as they talk about last week&#8217;s and this upcoming Prep Blitz Football!            ]]></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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Ford, the only U.S. automaker to dodge direct government aid and bankruptcy court, surprised investors with net income of nearly $1 billion in the third quarter and forecast a &#8220;solidly profitable&#8221; 2011.
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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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Former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney says the time has come to stop the economic stimulus program, contending that it has not worked as the Obama administration planned           ]]></description>
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We were talking about, you&#8217;ll remember, essential books that must be kept near at hand. One mentioned but not discussed was &#8220;The Ragged, Rugged Warriors,&#8221; by Martin Caidin.
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Construction spending in September posted a better-than-expected performance, powered by the largest jump in housing construction in more than six years.           ]]></description>
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In receiving the Noble Peace Prize, President Barack Obama represents the classical illustration of the Christian gospel of grace.
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I sat through a play last Tuesday night which was based on Harper Lee&#8217;s classic book, &#8220;To Kill a Mockingbird.&#8221; It was an admirable production presented by the Montana Repertory Theater as part of the wonderful series of performances brought to the community by the Arts Association of East Alabama.           ]]></description>
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Alabama&#8217;s next governor, whether he or she is a Democrat or a Republican, will face the most complex set of economic circumstances since the Great Depression.
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If you&#8217;re a regular reader of this space, you know that I frequently lament the phenomenon that is politics-by-e-mail.
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          <title>Tuskegee University mourns Billups&#8217; passing</title>
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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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NEW YORK &#8212; Third party candidates are shaking up two major races in elections Tuesday, and the success of those candidacies is a warning shot fired at both major parties by voters angry at government and disillusioned by politics as usual.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON &#8212; President Barack Obama on Saturday tempered excitement about a growing economy with a sober outlook that more people will lose their jobs. He called that a heartbreaking reality and cautioned that even a burst of upbeat news &#8220;does not mean there won&#8217;t be difficult days ahead.&#8221;           ]]></description>
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JERUSALEM &#8212; U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday that Israel is making &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; concessions on West Bank settlement construction &#8212; a position clearly at odds with the prevailing Palestinian view.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Large copper reserves could yield financial benefits for war&#45;torn country</title>
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WASHINGTON &#8212; At a former al-Qaida stronghold southeast of the Afghan capital, a state-owned Chinese company is at work on a $3 billion mine project to tap one of the world&#8217;s largest unexploited copper reserves, a potential financial boon for an impoverished country mired in war.           ]]></description>
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KABUL &#8212; Authorities have arrested eight people, including one in Saudi Arabia, in connection with this week&#8217;s deadly attack on a guest house used by United Nations employees, the Afghan intelligence chief said Saturday. He said those arrested claimed the assailants came from Pakistan&#8217;s Swat Valley.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Issues remain a factor as runoff election nears in capital city</title>
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KABUL &#8212; President Hamid Karzai&#8217;s challenger plans to call for a boycott of next weekend&#8217;s runoff election, hoping to force a delay until spring to allow time to organize a fair vote, his campaign manager said Saturday.

In the meantime, ex-Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah wants an interim government to run the country, Satar Murad told The Associated Press.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Between bombings, some normalcy still exists in Afghanistan</title>
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KABUL &#8212; Kabul remains on edge, with suicide bombings shattering any peace and the growing strength of the Taliban-led insurgency on everyone&#8217;s mind.           ]]></description>
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MANILA, Philippines &#8212; A typhoon battered the Philippine capital and surrounding provinces still reeling from recent flooding, sending residents of one town clambering onto rooftops Saturday to escape rising waters. Seven people died and at least five were missing.           ]]></description>
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VATICAN CITY &#8212; The Vatican said Saturday that married Anglican priests will be admitted to the Catholic priesthood on a case-by-case basis as Rome makes it easier for conservative Anglicans to convert.           ]]></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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When a Republican gubernatorial candidate recently questioned several actions, goals and initiatives of the Alabama Education Association, the group&#8217;s leadership hollered loudly and cried foul. I, personally, believe the response was an elaborate display of political misdirection in which the group flailed its right arm wildly in order to avert attention from what its left arm was doing.           ]]></description>
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A few days ago the United States characterized as unfair the United Nations committee report concerning the disproportionate Israeli force against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. America has always stood by Israel and justifiably so.           ]]></description>
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Attention Opelika police department: if you want to nab speeders please direct your cruisers to Williamson Avenue. You&#8217;ll more than meet your quota.
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