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George Bush, Arrested on Cocaine Possession Charges (Abovethelaw.com)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:19:20 GMT

No, not that George Bush (although when George W. Bush was young and irresponsible, he was young and irresponsible). Meet George deVallon Bush, a prominent criminal defense attorney in Augusta, Georgia. From the Augusta Chronicle : [George Bush] was taken into custody at a Broad Street bar as the result of an ongoing investigation, Sheriff Ronnie Strength said Monday night. He...

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LARRY JON WILSON: LARRY JON WILSON (1965) **** (Daily Express)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:00:00 GMT

A raw, unadorned set of songs make up the fifth album of Larry Jon Wilson, the enigmatic singer-songwriter from Augusta, GA.

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Darrow buys more Georgia outlets (JSOnline)

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:57:15 GMT

Darrow Automotive, based in Waukesha County, has agreed to acquire five auto dealerships in Augusta, Ga. The...

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'The Reason' Grant Weighs 250 For Tonight's TV Bout! (Boxing Along The Beltway)

noreply@blogger.com (Gary Digital Williams) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:54:00 GMT

Riverdale, MD heavyweight Horace "The Reason" Grant weighed in at 250 pounds for his nationally televised ESPN2 bout tonight at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas, NV. His opponent in the scheduled eight-round contest, Kevin "Big Man" Burnett of Augusta, GA, came in at 261. Both these guys are similar in record (Grant 12-1, seven KO's; Burnett 12-1-1, eight KO's), similar in height (Grant...

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One Sign You're Not Giving Your Writers Enough to Do (Overheard in the Office)

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:42:47 GMT

Writer to editor : I was having a staring contest with you a little while ago, but you weren't paying attention so I won. Broad Street Augusta, Georgia Alsome | Thumbs up | Thumbs down | wtf? Link · Email · Quote this! · Del.icio.us · Posted 2008-06-20

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Morris Museum of Art to host ' Landscape of Slavery ~ The Plantation in American Art ' (Art Knowledge News)

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:40:45 GMT

AUGUSTA, GEORGIA - Organized by the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina, Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art opens to the public on Saturday, August 23, and remains on view through Sunday, October 19, at the Morris Museum of Art . This groundbreaking exhibition offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of plantation images in the American South....

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Morris Museum of Art features Paintings by Jeffrey Kronsnoble (Art Knowledge News)

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:58:34 GMT

AUGUSTA , GA - Notes on the 19 th , 20 th , and 21 st Centuries: Paintings by Jeffrey Kronsnoble opens to the public on Saturday, June 7, and remains on view through Sunday, August 10, at the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, Georgia. Organized by Morris Museum of Art curator Jay Williams, the exhibition includes forty paintings and mixed-media constructions by artist Jeffrey Kronsnoble....

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Fight breaks out at Coliseum Authority Meeting. (Peach Pundit)

Fri, 30 May 2008 03:27:39 GMT

No not Lithonia, not Clayton County, but Augusta: Augusta, GA — Watchdog Woody Merry came came to bark at Augusta Coliseum Authority board members about not meeting, but Merry’s confrontation with member William Fennoy brought out a Richmond County Deputy, to take statements as Merry took a punch to the right side of his face. William Fennoy, [...]

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Robert Mullins: Sunshine Troublemaker of the Week (State Sunshine and Open Records)

Thu, 22 May 2008 19:22:54 GMT

Robert Mullins of Augusta, Georgia is our 25th Sunshine Troublemaker of the Week. Mullins is the head of the Association for Fair Government; he is currently awaiting a judge’s ruling on an open records lawsuit he filed against the city of Augusta. Mullins wants access to public records in from Augusta’s procurement or purchasing department. [...]

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New NSA Whistleblower Tells of Faulty WMD Evidence (Circle of 13)

noreply@blogger.com (Peacedream) — Wed, 21 May 2008 07:03:00 GMT

David Swanson May 19, 2008 David Murfee Faulk was a translator in the Navy, working in Arabic and Iraqi dialect. In April 2004 he began working for the National Security Agency (NSA) at Fort Gordon outside Augusta, Georgia. (He now writes, under the name Murfee Faulk, for the Metro Spirit newspaper in Augusta, but he has never written about what he did for the NSA.) Faulk says...

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Mastering Schizophrenia -Augusta (GA) KRDW-TV (NC Mental Hope News)

Tue, 20 May 2008 12:59:00 GMT

Video of story here. May 19, 2008 Reporter: Jeff Anderson Email Address: jeff.anderson@wrdw.com AUGUSTA--Having a mental illness is something tens of millions of American deal with every single day. It's a staggering figure and ever more staggering is the thought that you probably see several of them every day and don't know the difference. Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, suicide,

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JEA eyes stake in Georgia nuclear power plant (The Atlanta Business Chronicle)

Fri, 16 May 2008 14:05:37 GMT

Jacksonville Electric Authority (JEA) is looking to enter a 20-year contract to buy nuclear power from a yet-to-be-built plant near Augusta, Ga.

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JEA eyes stake in Georgia nuclear power plant (The Jacksonville Business Journal)

Fri, 16 May 2008 13:35:52 GMT

JEA is looking to enter a 20-year contract to buy nuclear power from a yet-to-be-built plant near Augusta, Ga.

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Show some respect (Deceptively Simple)

Tue, 13 May 2008 00:29:36 GMT

Earlier today, the most-discussed story in the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle was "Cellist, 26, is shot to death in his car." David Reader was the principal cellist of the Augusta Symphony Orchestra and was found dead with two gunshot wounds in...

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More In-Network Options for CIGNA HealthCare of Georgia Members (Business Wire)

Thu, 08 May 2008 17:45:00 GMT

AUGUSTA, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CIGNA HealthCare, University Health Care System and University Physicians Associates, P.C. announced today that they have entered into agreements creating

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Augusta, Georgia .NET User Group meeting on May 29 (MSDN Blogs)

Tue, 06 May 2008 12:43:55 GMT

The next Augusta Developers Guild meeting will be held on Thursday, May 29th, 2008 at 6PM at Augusta State University. Karl Shifflett will be presenting Mole Visualizer For Visual Studio. Please RSVP so we know how much food to order. More information is available at our website http://www.augustadevelopers.org . Meeting Summary When: Thursday, May 29th, 2008 @ 6PM Where: Augusta...

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ESi Sets the Stage for New Products and Services at Annual WebEOC User Conference (Business Wire)

Mon, 05 May 2008 20:00:00 GMT

AUGUSTA, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Emergency managers from across the country recently gathered in Boston for the Fourth Annual WebEOC User Conference. ESi®, the

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The Way Our World Ends (Commentary - The Post Chronicle)

Sun, 04 May 2008 19:32:10 GMT

An Augusta, Ga., group, The National Policy Institute, has meshed the figures on fertility rates with the continents and races on Planet Earth -- to visualize what the world will look like in 2060....

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NPI Gets Some Love from PJB (St. Louis CofCC Blog)

Sat, 03 May 2008 00:51:38 GMT

The National Policy Institute, the Augusta, Georgia-based think tank that this writer previously remarked could well be the right's answer to the Southern Poverty Law Center (the NPI actually uses this as a pull quote on its own website), gets a positive citation from the phenomenon known as Patrick J. Buchanan in his column dated [...]

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Morris Publishing Group 2008 First-Quarter Earnings Analyst & Investor Conference Call (Red Orbit )

Fri, 02 May 2008 14:00:26 GMT

AUGUSTA, Ga., May 2 /PRNewswire/ -- You are invited to participate in our analyst and investor conference call at 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, May 13, 2008, to discuss the 2008 first-quarter financial results of Morris Publishing Group, LLC.

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