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I was watching my TiVoed recording of today's inauguration. At about 1:45 CT (2:45 ET), as the dignitaries were leaving Statuary Hall to go to the parade, I noticed Bill and Hillary leaving together. Bill looked over and said something to someone off camera, and the covered his mouth like "Oops!" I put a QuickTime of it and put it on 2 different servers I had access to: Site 1Site 2

BRUNSWICK, Ga. - With the Battle of the Bulge raging in western Europe during World War II, workers at a Brunswick shipyard were determined to deliver one more ship by year's end. To get the job done, laborers were needed around the clock on Christmas Day. About 1,500 volunteered - and they worked for free. Newspapers across the United States carried the story in their afternoon editions Dec. 25, and 60 years later, their hard work and generosity remains a point of pride in the coastal city. "We were Santa Claus," recalled 81-year-old Nanelle Surrency Bacon. The shipyard built freighters...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) - Employees at a Little Rock office building have been asked to leave their deer hunting rifles at home because the president and three former presidents are coming to town to open Bill Clinton's presidential library. Acxiom Corporation distributed a memo to the 420 employees in its 12-story sales and marketing building in Little Rock's River Market district -- near the Clinton library -- reminding them of its policy forbidding weapons on company property. "This would not be a time to violate that policy," said Dale Ingram, spokesman for Acxiom. The Acxiom building overlooks the library,...

PHOENIX - A stolen truck filled with suspected illegal immigrants and speeding away from deputies rolled over at a busy intersection near an Army post Saturday, causing an 11-car crash that killed six people and seriously injured 15, sheriff's officials said. Passengers were thrown out of the truck bed as the truck hit a center median and began to spiral, hitting vehicles waiting at a turn lane, said Deputy Chief Randy Redmond of the Sierra Vista Fire Department. Investigators think the truck was traveling at about 90 mph when it lost control near Fort Huachuca in southeastern Arizona, he said....

For one campus organization, an April 25 march on Washington, D.C. is a way for their voices to be heard about women’s rights issues. The Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance has been raising money this semester to attend the March for Women’s Lives. The group has sponsored bake sales where they’ve sold baked goods and vagina suckers, and also buttons with sayings like “feminist,” and “until the violence stops.” The group will also be raising money during a garage sale on Saturday at 207 South 30th Ave. from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. The group has so far raised enough money...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Sen. John Edwards had a penknife confiscated as part of a stepped up security search that caused a one-hour delay for the Democratic presidential candidate and others boarding his chartered plane. Albuquerque security officials gave extensive screenings to those traveling with the senator, including hand inspections of everyone's luggage and carry-on bags. "We must look dangerous," joked the North Carolina Democrat, who was forced to go through a metal detector along with other passengers, and to have all his bags X-rayed, before being allowed to board his campaign plane. A small knife was confiscated from Edwards' luggage....

JACKSON, Miss. - A judicial review board has launched an inquiry into allegations against a state Supreme Court justice, including claims that he threatened to "whip" the chief justice and intentionally delayed cases as payback before his term on the court ends. Justice Chuck McRae on Sunday said the complaint was "much ado about nothing" and called it a strong-arm tactic by the five high court justices who made the allegations, including Chief Justice Edwin Pittman. "Justice Pittman is trying to run this court with an iron fist," McRae said. The complaint, dated Sept. 17, charges that since his election...

Dr. Jack Kevorkian, imprisoned in Michigan for assisted suicide, is being called upon as an expert witness to help in a pollution case in Brunswick. But don't expect the man known nationally as Dr. Death to appear in a Glynn County courtroom. Lawyers for the nearly 200 people suing the former owners of a chemical plant on the Turtle River are planning to present his testimony by either a written or taped deposition. Kevorkian is serving 10 to 25 years in prison after giving CBS a videotape of one of his physician-assisted suicides. "Back in the 1970s he was doing...

With all the space seed Captain Kirk spread around the galaxy, it figured he'd eventually hear the phrase "semen-related lawsuit." It just never figured he'd hear the phrase related to a horse. A little story: In the mid-1990s, Captain Kirk alter ego William Shatner split from second wife Marcy Lafferty Shatner. Per their divorce settlement, the ex-Mrs. Shatner reputedly was afforded privileges once yearly at Mr. Shatner's horse farm in Kentucky (for the purposes of breeding horses, people). According to a lawsuit (yes, the semen-related one) filed late last month by Marcy Shatner, in each breeding season since 1995, she...

Embedded in the office behind his Columbus Drive home, Chuck Watson reports to the world nearly in real-time about Iraq. His reporting tool of choice? Satellite imagery. The unassuming mapping and satellite expert has scooped traditional news outlets more than once during the war. Watson posted on his Web site enhanced satellite images that showed: * Oil fires in Kirkuk; * Fires around Baghdad; * Fighting in Basra. They were posted before any worldwide media reported the events. The images amazed Mark Johnson, a statistics professor at the University of Central Florida, who works on modeling projects with Watson. "He...

SILVER CITY, N.M. (AP) -- Western New Mexico fired men's basketball coach Joe Mondragon on Saturday after investigating a complaint that he used a racial slur toward black players on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. ``In the investigation itself, it was determined that there was a statement made with the n-word being used,'' athletic director Scott Woodard said. ``The university and the department can't have tolerance of those kinds of matters. In the best interest of the institution, that was the decision we needed to move forward with,'' he said. Junior guard David Harris said Mondragon used the slur on...

<p>Councilwoman Deborah Denard scored a victory Monday by negotiating with Hattiesburg Police Chief David Wynn to destroy 51 seized weapons which had been destined for auction.</p> <p>Denard wanted a "gun smashing party" for those firearms, but Wynn said he needed to sell the guns to buy patrol officers shotguns.</p>

Florida wasn't the only state to suffer from dimpled, hanging chads last November."We had the identical problem that Florida had," said Georgia Secretary of State Cathy Cox in a Friday luncheon speech to the Brunswick-Golden Isles Chamber of Commerce. "If the margin of votes between Bush and Gore was closer, the world's attention would have been on us." The secretary of state's office is making sure that will never happen. A new Georgia law will put every county on the same voting equipment -- computers that allow voters to cast their ballots by touching names on a screen -- by ...

Roland Hopper will never forget his 11th birthday party - after an armed police team arrested him as he cut his cake. Officers stormed the birthday bash and arrested Roland after he was seen playing with his new pellet gun. He had been playing with 12 friends at his home in Red House, Sunderland, as he celebrated his big day. But as he showed off the new pellet gun his mother had bought him, armed police surrounded the house. The quiet street was sealed off as two armed response patrol cars and a riot van surrounded the house. Two officers ...

There was no fanfare and no public memorial, but for those who remembered, Thursday marked the anniversary of a day they will never forget. It has been 10 years since Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2311 crashed in a wooded area north of Brunswick, killing all 23 people aboard. The date, April 5, 1991, may not have ingrained itself into people's memories, but the event will forever be remembered by those whose lives it touched. For local residents, the plane crash has become a milestone comparable to the assassination of President John Kennedy or the space shuttle Challenger disaster. ASA flight ...

For many motorists in Glynn County who encounter an approaching funeral procession one question almost immediately arises, not about life or death, but whether to pull to the side of the road or continue traveling on.For most people, the answer is determined not by law, but by where they grew up."In the South, most people are pretty courteous and will not pass a funeral procession," said Arlie McNeill, general manager of Edo Miller and Sons Funeral Home. "Most oncoming cars will pull over."Southern tradition has always dictated a show of respect for the deceased, such as men removing their hats ...

Maryland's "ballistic fingerprinting" requirement has had a chilling effect on the lawful sale of handguns in the not-so-"Free State." Many new handguns, perfectly legal in most states, are simply not coming into Maryland, which means the supply for any law-abiding citizen who hopes to buy a new handgun is drying up. It seems that many gun makers are not able or willing to comply with Maryland's requirement that any handgun manufactured after October 1, 2000, that is intended to be sold in Maryland, include with the firearm a shell casing from a round of ammunition that has been fired from ...

The Mississippi Flag Commission is ready to propose a new flag design that strips the Confederate battle symbol from the state flag. The replacement proposal, obtained by the Associated Press, shows stripes of blue and white, anchored by a red box in the top left corner. In the red area, are 20-white stars, representing the 13-original states of the Union, and the six nations that had control of Mississippi. The full commission will vote on that design tomorrow. It would replace Mississippi's current flag, which has bars of red, white and blue and a corner box with the Conferate battle ...