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Midnight madness at North Point
Paulding woman missing after celebration
Laneeka Varnado, 22, who had been living with her father in Paulding County, left home Monday night for an evening of celebration and relaxation, but never returned home.

Ready, set, go shopping
How many shoppers show up today for after-Thanksgiving bargains could determine which retailers go out of business in early 2009. The International Council of Shopping Centers says 15 retail chains have already filed for bankruptcy.
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Beloved downtown barber dies
Paul Guidry, 69, who worked for decades at the Walton Building Barber Shop at 83 Cone St. in Atlanta, died of cancer Wednesday morning at his Marietta home.
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World's oldest person dies at 115
Edna Parker was born April 20, 1893, in central Indiana's Morgan County and had been recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest person since the 2007 death in Japan of Yone Minagawa, who was four months her senior.
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Suspect detained in death of news anchor
Curtis Lavelle Vance, 28, of Marianna, Ark., was being held at the Pulaski County Jail on a capital murder charge in the beating death of Anne Pressly, the 26-year-old anchorwoman who died Oct. 25, five days after being severely beaten.

Family of slain Wal-Mart employee awarded $36M
Patrick Graham, the Arizona Wal-Mart employee, was shot to death in 2005 by a mental patient. The money was awarded to Graham's widow, two children and parents.

Bush: Won't miss limelight
President George W. Bush is relishing the chance to see "the klieg lights shift somewhere else," although he admits he'll miss perks like White House cooking and flying on Air Force One.
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Last 3 gunmen slain at Mumbai hotel
Indian commandoes killed the last three gunmen at a landmark hotel and were sweeping another luxury hotel in search of hostages and trapped people after suspected Muslim militants stormed targets across Mumbai, leaving 119 people dead.
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Georgia football player arrested
Police say Kevin Perez, 21, a UGA reserve center, was charged with DUI and violating stop and yield signs.

Josh Smith may return to court Wednesday
The Hawks' forward could barely catch his breath after his first full workout in nearly three weeks on Thanksgiving morning, following an ankle injury. And while he won't suit up for for games on Friday or Saturday, he could be back in the lineup by next week.


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If Obama Doesn't Prosecute Bush's Torture Team, We'll Pay a Big Price Down the Road  

If Obama Doesn't Prosecute Bush's Torture Team, We'll Pay a Big Price Down the Road
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Radical Solutions for a Crazy Economic Crisis  

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The fight against deflation has to be unorthodox. Read more »

Rumsfeld's Attempts to Rewrite Himself on the Right Side of History Are Laughable  

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DHEC approves project permit

SUMMERVILLE â€" The long-awaited and controversial extension of the Berlin Myers Parkway has passed another key checkpoint. The state Department of Health and Environmental Control signed off on the water-quality permit last week, four years after Dorchester County voters approved the project in a sales-tax referendum.



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Holiday in Hampton Park

At the Thanksgiving banquet in Hampton Park on Thursday there wasn't much difference between the hundreds of people giving help and the hundreds of people receiving it. There were some holey shirts on both sides of the serving line. Both volunteers and those in need came to the annual Without Walls Ministry feast to fill their stomachs and souls and left feeling a little better than before.

S.C. oyster industry using new ideas, techniques to stay alive

Oysterman Carl DiPace spent this week out in the cold wash on the reefs, pulling in cluster after cluster â€" nothing says Thanksgiving in the Lowcountry like that salty slurp of meat. But more and more, DiPace finds himself setting and harvesting single oysters instead of clusters. He's begun a business planting oyster reefs alongside waterfront homes as an alternative to riprap or a sea wall. Somewhere in that pluff mud he has his hands on the future.

Parents keep vigil over injured son

For nearly six weeks now, Evelyn and Michael Morgan have sat in a hospital room, waiting for their son to come back to them. Shannon lies there in a neck brace, hooked up to IVs and a feeding tube. He hardly moves, and doesn't respond to voices. His eyes are open, but he does not see. "We're just waiting for him to wake up," Michael Morgan said.

Lesson learned from Fig Island

During the time of the earliest pyramids, American Indians began piling oyster shells at Fig Island. In just a few years they feasted on more than a billion oysters from the waters around the 20-acre hummock near Wadmalaw Island.










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Going Head-To-Head

CLEMSON â€" Clemson running back James Davis ran his finger down the South Carolina depth chart. When his finger got to the name of Gamecocks linebacker Jasper Brinkley, he stopped and looked up at the throng of media that had gathered about his desk. A sly smile crossed his face as he said to no one in particular, "Is Jasper still playing for them? Are you sure he's back? I thought he was a senior last year."

Johnson has been on both sides of this rivalry

COLUMBIA â€" Ellis Johnson knows what it's like to be on both sides of a rivalry in this state. His first high school coaching job was at Gaffney, from 1976-78. Then he headed down Interstate 85 to Spartanburg High. His mistake in all that? Johnson continued to live in Gaffney after jumping ships. "Yeah, I did," he said, "for three months."

Sophomore Maddox moves up to No. 2 RB

COLUMBIA â€" Running back Eric Baker's ankle injury has paved the way for a pretty improbable return in South Carolina's backfield. Brian Maddox stands to be the team's No. 2 runner for Saturday's game at Clemson. Baker, the freshman, was ruled out Wednesday by coach Steve Spurrier.

Dabo and the other leftovers

Why Clemson Nation, barring the shame of a lopsided loss to South Carolina on Saturday, should encourage Dr. Terry Don Phillips to surgically remove the "interim" from Dabo Swinney's job title and ignore a cast of candidates almost as intriguing as the characters in a Ken Burger novel. And why not.

Stopping 'The Freak' one of biggest keys for Tigers

CLEMSON â€" More than one team has tried to stop South Carolina tight end/wide receiver Jared Cook and failed over the past two seasons. Cook has created matchup nightmares for most defenses because of his rare combination of size and speed. At 6-5 and 240 pounds, Cook has the size of a tight end, but the speed of a wide receiver.










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Ford products lead list of safest cars

WASHINGTON â€" The insurance industry has named dozens of new cars and trucks, led by Ford Motor Co. and its Volvo subsidiary, to its newly released annual list of the safest vehicles, helped by the increased use of anti-rollover technology. Ford and Volvo had 16 vehicles in the 2009 model year on the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's list of the safest new cars, followed by Honda Motor Co. with 13 vehicles.

Season of big-box trees

CHICAGO â€" As Christmas traditions go, this one's big. Every year, the Proeber family traipses through the fields of central Illinois searching for the perfect Christmas tree before breaking out the saw, tying their selection to the roof of their car and hauling it back to their living room.

Tobacco growing again

MOUNT STERLING, Ky. â€" Lindsay Pasley is an eager young man in what used to be an older man's game â€" tobacco farming. He recently took 20 tons of his early prepared leaf to Clay's Tobacco Warehouse in Mount Sterling, due east of Lexington in the Appalachian foothills, where he said he earned enough to "have a nice Thanksgiving and Christmas."

E-mail sows gift card confusion

An ominous e-mail has made the round of in-boxes recently, warning shoppers not to purchase gift cards from a long list of stores because, it claims, they are failing. The e-mail says in part: "Stores that are planning to close after Christmas are still selling the (gift) cards through the holidays even though the cards will be worthless January 1. There is no law preventing them from doing this."

Shop like you shrimp ... locally

You heard it every day during the presidential election: We have to help Main Street as much as we help Wall Street. For once, those national politicians sounded like they actually had a clue â€" apparently one side effect of full-scale economic meltdown is brief moments of clarity.










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8p 11/27 Update: Shuttle crew leaves station; preps for undocking Friday

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CBS NEWS STS-126 STATUS REPORT: 75
Posted: 8:00 PM, 11/27/08

By William Harwood
CBS News Space Analyst

Changes and additions:

   SR-73 (11/27/08): Astronauts celebrate Thanksgiving in space
   SR-74 (11/27/08): Shuttle crew beams down Thanksgiving greetings; Pettit demonstrate weightless toasts
   SR-75 (11/27/08): Shuttle astronauts leave station, prepare for undocking Friday

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8:00 PM, 11/27/08, Update: Hatches closed; shuttle set for undocking Friday

With Thanksgiving Day hugs, handshakes and broad smiles, the shuttle Endeavour's crew bid farewell to space station commander Mike Fincke, Yury Lonchakov and Sandra Magnus today before leaving the lab complex for the last time, sealing hatches between the two spacecraft and preparing for undocking Friday morning.

Gathering in the station's Harmony module and sharing their farewells with mission control via high definition television, Fincke thanked shuttle commander Christopher Ferguson and his crewmates - pilot Eric Boe, Don Pettit, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, Stephen Bowen and Robert "Shane" Kimbrough - for giving the space station a makeover inside and out.

Over the course of four spacewalks, the Endeavour astronauts successfully serviced the station's damaged right-side solar array rotary joint, lubricated the port-side joint as a preventative measure, installed a spare cooling system component, removed a spent nitrogen tank, installed a new external TV camera and prepared the Japanese Kibo module for attachment of an external experiment platform next year.

Inside the station, the astronauts installed and activated a new urine recycling system that ultimately will be connected to a new toilet and galley that will permit NASA to boost the station's crew size from three to six next May. Along with the recycling equipment, the shuttle crew also delivered two sleep stations, a refrigerator/freezer and combustion research equipment.

"We'd like to say to Fergie and your crew, thank you very much for this extreme home makeover," Fincke said today. "I think we succeeded as a team, not just us guys here up in space, but the entire team down on planet Earth, across 15 different nations, it's something really incredible. You totally fixed us up on the inside and on the outside and the results speak for themselves. I think everybody's really ecstatic and I'm really proud to have worked with you. So on behalf of the space station, I'd like to say thanks for coming.

"On behalf of myself, this is the first time I've seen a space shuttle up here and I didn't know what to expect," said Fincke, who has flown to the station twice aboard Russian Soyuz spacecraft. "You guys set the bar high for the next crew because boy, it was so much fun having you here and seeing you here, you guys were such perfect guests. You left the place cleaner than you found it and we tried to make it pretty clean for your arrival. And it's even better now and we're so glad."

Along with delivering more than 16,000 pounds of equipment and supplies, Endeavour also brought Magnus to the station to begin a three-month stay as a flight engineer with Expedition 18. She replaced Gregory Chamitoff, who was launched to the station May 31 and who will return to Earth aboard Endeavour.

"Greg, I'm really proud, and really glad to have served with you," Fincke said. "You've accomplished so much, just the normal day-to-day work plus all the science that you got done. I'm really proud to have served with you."

Chamitoff said "I just cannot believe six months have gone by."

"It feels like it's ending very much as it began, with the spectacular shuttle flight and the accomplishments of the shuttle crew, who gave us a makeover both inside and outside the space station, prepared us for six-person crew in the future. It's been a real pleasure to see this crew come up. After being on board for six months, mostly with three people at a time, and all the sudden there's 10 people up here and the work they've done is just amazing. It's great to see it."

Chamitoff said he had mixed feelings as he prepared to leave the station for the trip home.

"As I leave it today, I feel both happy and sad, he said. "Very sad to leave my crew because my crewmates have been just terrific and I know that I'm leaving this space station in really the best possible hands. ... And of course, I'm really happy because I'm really looking forward to seeing my family. ... I just can't wait to get home and seem my family, all my thoughts are there now."

The station's hatch was closed at 7:31 p.m. After leak checks, the shuttle astronauts planned to call it a day. They will get up around 6 a.m. Friday to begin final preparations for undocking. if all goes well, the two spacecraft will separate at 9:47 a.m. Heat shield inspections are on tap Friday afternoon with normal pre-entry tests and cabin stow Saturday. Landing back at the Kennedy Space Center is scheduled for 1:18 p.m. Sunday, weather permitting.

Here is a timeline of Friday's activity (in EST and mission elapsed time; includes revision M of the NASA television schedule):

EST........DD...HH...MM...EVENT

11/28/08
05:55 AM...13...10...00...Crew wakeup
07:25 AM...13...11...30...ISS daily planning conference
08:05 AM...13...12...10...Group B computer power up
08:59 AM...13...13...04...ISS in undocking orientation
08:59 AM...13...13...04...U.S. solar arrays feathered
09:00 AM...13...13...05...Undocking timeline begins
09:03 AM...13...13...08...Noon
09:30 AM...13...13...35...Sunset

09:47 AM...13...13...52...UNDOCKING

09:48 AM...13...13...53...ISS holds attitude
09:48 AM...13...13...55...ISS docking port depressurization
09:52 AM...13...13...57...Range: 50 feet; reselect -X jets
09:54 AM...13...13...59...Range 75 feet; low Z
10:06 AM...13...14...11...Sunrise
10:16 AM...13...14...21...Range: 400 feet; start fly around
10:25 AM...13...14...30...Range: 600 feet
10:27 AM...13...14...32...Shuttle directly above ISS
10:34 AM...13...14...39...Noon
10:39 AM...13...14...44...Shuttle directly behind ISS
10:50 AM...13...14...55...Shuttle directly below ISS
11:01 AM...13...15...06...Separation burn No. 1
11:02 AM...13...15...07...Sunset
11:29 AM...13...15...34...Separation burn No. 2
12:14 PM...13...16...19...Separation burn No. 3
12:20 PM...13...16...25...Crew meal
01:20 PM...13...17...25...Group B computer powerdown
01:25 PM...13...17...30...Post undocking computer reconfig
01:40 PM...13...17...45...EVA unpack and stow
01:50 PM...13...17...55...Starboard wing TPS survey
03:10 PM...13...19...15...Post ISS EVA entry preps
03:35 PM...13...19...40...Nose cap TPS survey
04:25 PM...13...20...30...Port wing TPS survey
05:30 PM...13...20...35...Mission status briefing on NTV
06:30 PM...13...22...35...Laser data downlink
08:55 PM...14...01...00...Crew sleep begins
09:00 PM...14...01...05...Flight day 15 highlights on NTV


"Words can't express the thanks we have for all the folks who supported this docked mission," Ferguson said before leaving the station today. "As far as my tally is, we've accomplished all the major mission objectives and when I say we, I don't mean just the 10 of us, I mean everybody in both flight control rooms and all our supporting personnel as well.

"So with that, we'll bid a fine farewell to this Expedition 18. Good luck in the rest of their stay up here. We wish Sandy could come back with us but we know she's answering to a higher calling right now. So with that, we'll finally drag (Chamitoff) with us."

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Quick-Launch Web Links:

CBS News STS-126 Status Reports:
http://www.cbsnews.com/network/news/space/current.html

CBS News STS-126 Quick-Look Page:
http://www.cbsnews.com/network/news/space/currentglance.html

NASA ISS Expeditions Page:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/index.html

NASA Shuttle Web: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/index.html
NASA Station Web: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/index.html
Spaceflight Now: http://spaceflightnow.com/index.html
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