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Tribune/Debra Reid - Former President Bill Clinton posed for photos with supporters at the Sparks YMCA on Tuesday. Bill Clinton paints Obama as 'establishment' candidate
Clinton, who carried Nevada in two general elections, urged voters Tuesday to buck labor endorsements for Sen. Barack Obama
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Matt Doering from Brunswick with his 101-lb., 2 1/2-year-old doe. Over 120 deer harvested during primitive weapons hunt
As Archie Smith sees it, primitive weapons deer hunting is the only way to hunt.
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Deer vs. vehicle accidents up in ’07
Deer accidents are on the rise in Jones County with last month averaging more than one accident per day.
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D students: Should they play sports?
A growing number of schools are pressuring the state to change its two-decade-old standard of allowing students to play sports with grades as low as four D’s and two F’s. The Michigan High School...
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God bless our heroes
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My generation, a lively bunch best known as the baby boomers, grew-up in the shadow of some remarkable men and women. The veterans of World War II, like my dad Ray Perry, withstood the Great Depres...
A Thanksgiving appeal for our wounded vets
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“APPEAL FOR Wounded Men,” proclaimed the New York Times headline. “An appeal to citizens to open their homes on Thanksgiving Day to the 15,000 wounded soldiers in the city was sent out yesterday…. ...
Remembering school days
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FEW THINGS STIR the nostalgia of our lives as the days we spent in our schools decades ago. Most of us remember with clarity the children we knew as classmates and the teachers who taught us. And ...
Inmate escapes from golf course detail
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An inmate stole a county vehicle and decided to make his way south last week while on a work detail at Jones County’s public golf course last week.
Board votes 4-0 in favor of rezoning
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The rezoning of Jones County’s first industrial park was finalized Tuesday night with a unanimous affirmative vote by county commissioners at the meeting.
31 bags of marijuana found in home; suspect sought
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A warrant has been issued by the Jones County Sheriff’s Department for the arrest of a Jones County man following the seizure of marijuana from his home.
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A sign that reads 'Ike: Take a Hike!' is seen Sunday, Sept. 7 2008  in Key Largo, Fla. The hurricane, after crossing Cuba, will come near the Florida Keys.  Forecasters are urging coastal dwellers all along the Gulf from Florida to Mexico to be watching as Ike takes an uncertain path. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)AP - Authorities called off evacuation orders for the Florida Keys on Monday as a ferocious Hurricane Ike shifted south over Cuba and appeared on track to miss the low-lying U.S. island chain.


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O.J. Simpson arrives at the Regional Justice Center for jury selection in his upcoming trial Monday, Sept. 8, 2008 in Las Vegas. Simpson faces 12 charges including kidnapping, armed robbery and conspiracy stemming from a Sept. 13, 2007 incident. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)AP - The judge in O.J. Simpson's Las Vegas robbery-kidnap trial has rejected a bid by Simpson's lawyers to ask prospective jurors if they consider him a murderer.


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AP - Three bodies and one injured person were found after a house fire Monday morning and officials said at least two of the four victims had been shot.
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Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (L) sits next to his attorney James Thomas during a hearing at Wayne County Circuit Court in Detroit, Michigan September 4, 2008. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters)AP - Detroit's mayor has a deadline for moving out of the city's official mayoral residence now that he has pleaded guilty and is resigning.


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