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Today's entry: Georgia safety Reshad Jones wasn't kidding after signing day when he talked about what incoming freshman Branden Smith could bring to the Bulldogs football program.

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Police fear tipping off Zinkhan

Former University of Georgia marketing professor and accused triple-murderer George M. Zinkhan III could be monitoring news accounts of a national manhunt to stay ahead of authorities, an Athens-Clarke police official said Thursday.

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Schools nurses: A lot more
to it than Band-Aids

Students flowed in and out of Emily Hawhee's clinic at Oglethorpe Avenue Elementary School this week with the usual bumps, bruises and stomachaches. One student, a fifth-grader, complained of indigestion, while another suffered a fracture.

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Some prefer Davis' grip on government in Oconee loosened

WATKINSVILLE - Oconee County commissioners this week continued working through years of communication problems and appeared poised to reorganize a few key government positions as a result.

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Grimm now a positive option

Justin Grimm is nearly unrecognizable from last year when he was seen as an inconsistent freshman with a wild arm.

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Leaping into the record books

JEFFERSON - Raymond Higgs' day started with more drama than he would have liked. But it provided an exciting beginning to an otherwise dominant performance that lacked much suspense.

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► Notebook: Porter takes shot at uncle's vault record

'The Mad Ones' chronicles story of Joe Gallo

Joe Gallo catapulted to mob fame while sitting before a panel of U.S. senators and their charismatic general counsel, Robert Kennedy. An Italian-American dressed in black and sunglasses, Gallo gleamed as a rebel for the TV-watching public in 1959.

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Editorial: Longer terms might improve state legislature

"A lot of it was political. People were thinking about the 2010 election." So said state Rep. Keith Heard, D-Athens, during a recent Federation of Neighborhoods meeting in Athens-Clarke County.

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Forum: GOP marching down dead-end alley

Once upon a time, long before the GOP plummeted to its current status as the Southern and Rural Older White Guy Party, it actually was home to a healthy subspecies known as the Republican moderate.

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