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Perry Office
1210 Washington St.
P.O. Box 1910
Perry, GA 31069
(478) 987-1823
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The Houston Home Journal, A peri
odical, mailed (ISSN 1526-7393)
at Perry, Ga., is published Tuesday
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State Briefs
Mother strangled
by daughters
BUFORD (AP) - A woman
found dead after a fight
with her two daughters was
strangled, authorities said.
Gwinnett County Assistant
District Attorney Dan
Mayfield confirmed Muriel
O’Connell’s cause of death
Wednesday.
But Mayfield said her 15-
year-old adopted daughters
are still only being held on
misdemeanor charges in
connection with the wom
an’s death. There will not
be a decision on whether to
charge the girls as adults
until police complete their
investigation.
“There is still much to
know,” Mayfield said.
The girls, being held in the
Regional Youth Detention
Center, have not been named
because they are juveniles.
One is charged with invol
untary manslaughter. The
other is charged with tamper
ing with evidence, Gwinnett
County Police spokesman
Darren Moloney said.
Police would not provide
details of the crime.
The two teens ran to a
neighbor’s house Sunday
night, reporting they had
been fighting with their
mother and that she was
dead.
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YOUR WEATHER TEAM!
TODAY’S
Today's Weather
Local 5-Day Forecast
Sat
8/12
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91/72
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storms possible.
Sunrise Sunset
6:58 AM 8:22 PM
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Albany 93 73 t-storm
Athens 84 68 rain
Atlanta 84 69 rain
Augusta 84 71 rain
Bainbridge 93 74 t-storm
Brunswick 92 77 t-storm
Cartersville 85 68 rain
Chattanooga,TN 82 67 t-storm
Columbus 89 73 t-storm
Cordele 92 72 t-storm
National Cities
Atlanta 84 69 rain
Boston 74 62 sunny
Chicago 81 62 mst sunny
Dallas 98 81 t-storm
Denver 88 62 t-storm
©2005 American Profile Hometown Content Service
Toddler drowns In
backyard pool
SNELLVILLE (AP) - A 20-
month-old drowned in his
family’s backyard swimming
pool Wednesday, apparently
after wandering out the back
door, authorities said.
Police Chief Roy Whitehead
said the toddler’s mother
saw him face-down in the
water, pulled him out and
began performing CPR, then
called 911.
The boy, whose name was
withheld pending other fam
ily members could be noti
fied, was pronounced dead
at Emory Eastside Medical
Center.
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weekdays, Sat 11-5 Sun 1-5.
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Mon
8/14
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Mix of sun and
clouds. Highs in the
low 90s and lows in
the low 70s.
Sunrise Sunset
6:59 AM 8:20 PM
Sun
8/13
91/72
Isolated thunder
storms. Highs in the
low 90s and lows in
the low 70s.
Sunrise Sunset
6:58 AM 8:21 PM
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Dalton 85 69 rain
Dillard 76 62 rain
Dublin 91 69 t-storm
Duluth 83 67 rain
Gainesville 82 69 rain
Helen 80 65 rain
Lagrange 86 69 t-storm
Macon 87 70 t-storm
Marietta 84 68 rain
Milledgeville 86 71 t-storm
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Houston 93 75 t-storm
Los Angeles 79 65 pt sunny
Miami 91 82 t-storm
Minneapolis 86 72 pt sunny
New York 80 64 mst sunny
Teen accidentally
shot during shoot
DUBLIN (AP)-A Laurens
County teenager was struck
in the throat and face in
a skeet shooting accident
when a gun being reloaded
accidentally fired.
Leon Towns, 18, of Dublin,
was struck from a distance
of about 25 yards when
Stephen Collier Peinberg,
18, of Thomasville, pumped
the slide forward to load a
shell and the gun fired.
Four witnesses told author
ities that Peinberg did not
have the gun pointed toward
anyone and did not know
Towns had walked up.
STATE AND REGION
Meteorologist
Jerry Methowaon
"Where dfe Ovsrjpis
Turns tor News”
Tue
8/15
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A few clouds. Highs
in the mid 90s and
lows in the low 70s.
Sunrise Sunset
6:59 AM 8:19 PM
Moon Phases
UV Index
Sat 8/12
Sun 8/13
Mon 8/14
Tue 8/15
Wed 8/16
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number scale, with a higher UV Index
showing the need for greater skin pro
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A few clouds. Highs
in the mid 90s and
lows in the low 70s.
Sunrise Sunset
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Peachtree City 84 68 rain
Perry 89 71 t-storm
Rome 86 69 rain
Savannah 90 73 t-storm
St. Simons Island 92 77 t-storm
Statesboro 93 75 t-storm
Thomasville 92 74 t-storm
Valdosta 91 73 t-storm
Warner Robins 88 71 t-storm
Waycross 94 72 t-storm
Phoenix 101 86 t-storm
San Francisco 75 58 pt sunny
Seattle 76 58 pt sunny
St. Louis 89 69 pt sunny
Washington, DC 83 66 pt sunny
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Obituaries
WILLIAM B. ’RQQSTER” MCCLOUD
ELKO - William B. “Rooster” McCloud, 56, passed away
on Wednesday, August 9, 2006. An informal memorial gath
ering will be held at 5:00 p.m. on Friday, August 11, 2006
at the home of Robert and Susan Atkins (364 Sandefur RD
Kathleen, GA 31047).
McCloud was bom on March 16, 1950 in Pensacola,
FL. He was a graduate of Middle Georgia Technical School
in Warner Robins and attended Middle Georgia College in
Cochran. Rooster, as he was known by his loving family
and friends, was co-owner of Marty’s Pet Grooming and very
active with the Macon Kennel Club. His father, William H.
McCloud, Jr., preceded him in death.
Survivors include his devoted wife of thirty years,
Martha “Marty” Woods McCloud, Elko; daughter, Kathy
“Kat” Bartlett (Derry), Warner Robins; mother, Josephine
Postelle McCloud, Warner Robins; sister, Susan Atkins
(Robert), Kathleen; grandsons, Alex Justin and Tyler, niece,
Bianca Narramore (Jimmy), Newnan; grandnephew, Chevy
Narramore and grandniece, Haley Narramore, both of
Newnan.
Go to www.mcculloughfh.com to sign the Online Registry
for the family. McCullough Funeral Home has charge of
arrangements.
Regents fix tuition plan
By BRANDON
LARRABEE
Morris News Service
ATLANTA - Students
who transfer from one of
Georgia’s pubhc coUeges to
another wiU still be able to
take advantage of the state’s
fixed tuition plan under a
policy approved Wednesday
by the State Board of
Regents.
The new rule is one of the
last pieces of the “Fixed for
Four” plan, which was large
ly approved by the board in
April.
Under the policy, students
beginning with this fall’s
freshman class will pay the
same tuition rate for their
first four years of college at
the state’s four-year schools
and three years at two-year
institutions.
But several parts of the
policy still needed to be clar
ified.
Under the plan approved
Wednesday, a transfer stu
dent would get the guar
anteed rate for the year
they entered the University
System of Georgia.
For example, a student
who enters Augusta State
University this fall and then
decides to transfer to the
Peebles
FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 2006 ♦
University of Georgia next
year would pay the same
amount as would a student
who entered UGA this year.
If the student then decided
to move to Georgia Southern,
he or she would still pay this
year’s rate, and so on until
his or her fourth year was
up.
William Bowes, vice chan
cellor for business and fis
cal affairs and the head of
a panel that grappled with
how to put the policy in
place, said the new rule was
seen as the best way to han
dle transfers.
He admitted some schools
who received a lot of trans
fer students might be finan
cially strained to make up
for an influx of new students
paying years-old rates.
“We also understand their
may be some cost impact
here,” he told a regents com
mittee Tuesday.
But Bowes said the system
could handle any issues that
arise through the budget or
by tinkering with tuition
rates for future classes.
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