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Prep Football
Panthers peaking as playoffs arrive
Lakeside surrendered only four first downs in its sixth shutout of the season.

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Friday night football
See photos from last night's high school football games across Georgia and South Carolina.

City Core
Election continues race over race
The race for the District 1 commission seat got off to a fitting start this week.

Metro
Gruesome work vital to police
A professor with the MCG/UGA Medical Partnership is also a contract worker for the GBI.

Your Faith
92-year-old cooks for veterans
Hazel Merritt started cooking for her church 33 years ago when Operation Buddy started.

Pets
CSRA Humane Society
See dogs and cats available for adoption from the CSRA Humane Society.
Prep football
Musketeers lock up home playoff game: On a frigid Friday night, Richmond Academy's players waited 15 minutes after the game for the ceremonial ice water drenching of their head coach.
SCORES AND SCHEDULES
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PHOTO GALLERIES
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Crestwood vs. Midland Valley
Highlights from the first half of the Crestwood vs. Midland Valley football game.
From the wire
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House passes health care bill
The 220-215 vote cleared the way for the Senate to begin debate on the issue that has come to overshadow all others in Congress.
Fort Hood victim has family in Evans
Aiken holdup suspect takes own life
Zenyatta wins Breeders' Cup Classic
Former Aquinas player Malchow injured
Photo Gallery: Augusta Memory Walk
Savannah sugar refinery celebrates reopening
Atlanta mayor vote broke largely along race lines
Aquinas doesn't make football playoffs
Who killed police dog? Atlantans offer reward
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Georgia Tech wins in overtime
Josh Nesbitt scored on a 3-yard run in overtime, leading the No. 10 Yellow Jackets another step closer to the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game with a 30-27 victory over Wake Forest.
UGA notches homecoming win
Arkansas tops South Carolina

NCAA Football
Tennessee Tech Georgia	0 38	Final
S. Carolina Arkansas	16 33	Final
Wake Forest Ga. Tech	27 30	Final
Florida St. Clemson	24 40	Final
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Senate unanimously confirms Tarver
He will oversee a district covering 43 counties as the new U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Georgia.
Avondale collecting higher Graniteville rates
Fort Gordon mum on Fort Hood reaction
Court mandated good behavior on Merry's part
Judge dismisses gun case against Palmer
Corps may raise Lake Thurmond during work

Prep football
Grovetown wraps up year with win
After the game, the Warriors doused first-year head coach Rodney Holder with ice.
Woods, Lefty could slug it out for title
Florida's Meyer fined by the SEC
Gordon claims 1st pole of year
Hawks falls to Charlotte
Falcons QB Ryan runs into his first slump
Sports on TV

Editorials
Surprise attack
Hasan gave every indication to superiors that he was a ticking time bomb leaning toward domestic jihad.
Don't kill the host

Latest McKee Cartoon

Letter to the Editor

Don't make decisions based first on race

Jobless praise added benefits
Until Friday, Gerald Shealy said he didn't know where the Georgia Department of Labor was located.
Tax credits will help local market
G-20 debates growth, cost of climate change
Families of salmonella victims want charges
Feds shut Sparta bank as year's total hits 119
Oil settles lower after US unemployment report

Your Faith
All God's creatures need loving care
How can anyone be so cruel and unfeeling toward such a kind, gentle creature?
92-year-old cooks monthly meal for veterans
Find a church by name, address or denomination
Faith briefs I Faith calendar I Amen Corner

Friday Night Rewind: Nov. 7, 2009

The best action clips and most interesting fans at Friday's prep football games.
Prep Football: Josey at Lakeside

Highlights from the first half of the Josey at Lakeside prep football game.

Prep Football: Aiken vs. North Augusta

Highlights from the second half of the Aiken vs. North Augusta prep football game.

Prep Football: Evans at Richmond Academy

Highlights from the second half of the Evans at Richmond Academy prep football game.

Prep Football: Crestwood vs. Midland Valley

Highlights from the first half of the Crestwood vs. Midland Valley football game.

The Blitz: Week 11, Episode 12

Sounds from the Stands

Adoption Spotlight - CSRA Humane Society

Man robs North Augusta Dollar General

Friday Night Rewind: Oct. 31, 2009

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Matt Middleton

It's prep football playoff time

Chris Gay

UGA vs. Tennessee Tech, post-game

Scott Michaux

Malchow injured

The City Core

Election continues race over race

The Pinch

Savings at Jingle Bell Jaunt

Grocery Savings at Bi-Lo

Pop Rocks

Why not move the Morris?

The Bright Side

Do something good for the Earth: Donate your sneakers

The Getaway

Make a deal at the Anderson Jockey Lot

Mike Wynn

Obama's election means there's no going back

Glynn Moore

Cars are dropping like Edsels

American Idol Blog

So You Think You Can Dance: Top 18

Working Knowledge

Aiken Workforce Center hosting veterans event

Scuttlebiz

Competitors erode Wachovia's top position

Lunch Money

Fast food on the southside at Roadrunner Cafe

The Outsider

An update on The Potato Man

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  KSL
  
  Just to let you know corgi, I am not somebody living in who knows where claiming descent. The Mayflower line merged very early on with the Dutch line who early on settled in New York and stayed …
- 11:18 PM
  CobaltGeorge
  
  OK socialist, pop your champaign bottles for game 1.
- 11:05 PM
  Roeschen
  
  From reading Cain's posts I am not sure he knows anything about responsibility. I am certain he knows nothing about the military. There is no draft. Everybody who is in the military today willingly …
- 11:01 PM
  sassylassieNEW
  
  A hundred amens to OVERBURDENED TAXPAYER and LUMBAR SUPPORT for speaking the truth. However, the political correctness that some people here show is what is wrong with our country. HEAVEN FORBID …
- 10:50 PM
  WhippingPost
  
  If you respond to Cain's rants about Americans and responsibility and conservative values, you respond to nonsense. He invariably writes about those subjects when his meds run out.
- 10:46 PM
  augusta citizen
  
  So many comments on this one, may be too late to respond to JohnRandolphHardisonCain's 2:30 am post...but, he says, "The ACES should call for the US Military to examine it's long standing policy of …
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  As I told Corgi, never log on when you have the load on. Yes, I must moderate in more ways than one.
Don't kill the host
- 12:02 AM
  WhippingPost
  
  I think the union ought to teach Ford a lesson and just abandon the big auto manufacturer. Let them see what it's like trying to operate without the union there to help.
- 9:16 PM
  whatmistake?NEW
  
  Here's what it boils down to: the UAW wants an ownership stake in Ford, just as it has Chrysler and GM. The only way it can achieve this is by driving the company down so bankruptcy is the only …
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  Taylor B
  
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