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Store Briefs
Missing man's body
found in river
ST. SIMONS ISLAND
(MNS) - The body of a 34-
year-old Mclntosh County
man was found floating
Wednesday about three miles
from the beach where he
drowned, authorities said.
A member of Duke
Gardner’s family spotted
the body about 9:30 a.m.
in the Frederica River, just
south of the bridge that
connects the F.J. Torras
Causeway with St. Simons
Island, said Capt. Stephen
Adams Georgia Department
of Natural Resources.
“That’s a tough thing for
them to do, to find him,”
Adams said. “We discour
aged them from participat
ing in the search because we
knew it would be hard.”
From the moment they
learned Gardner had been
swept off a sandbar, the
Gardner family had been
at the site watching others
search and doing so them
selves.
“We were bred to do what
needs to be done,” R.D.
Gardner, the victim’s father,
said Wednesday morning.
“We’ve got a job to do right
now. We’re going to do what
it takes.”
As the sun rose over
the beach, R.D. Gardner
remarked to his daughter
in-law, Beverly Gardner, how
beautiful it was. He would
have rather seen it rise at
home in Mclntosh County.
It was his fourth straight
morning on the beach as
his family endured the grim
business of looking for the
youngest of his six sons.
One dead in bizarre
fire, accident
WATKINSVILLE (MNS)
- A man rammed his truck
into a rural barn Wednesday
afternoon and burned to
death as flames engulfed
the building, the climax to a
bizarre series of events that
one investigator said was the
strangest he’d ever seen.
The man, still unidentified
Wednesday evening, drove a
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10/15
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in the upper 70s and
lows in the mid 50s
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Highs in the mid 70s
and lows in the up
per 40s.
Sunrise Sunset
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Brunswick 75 55 sunny
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Chattanooga.TN 65 45 sunny
Columbus 74 53 sunny
Cordele 78 49 sunny
National Cities
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truck off Georgia Highway
316, looped through two
nearby farm fields and
forded a creek before crash
ing into the barn at 1951
Pete Dickens Road in rural
Oconee County.
The path he took seemed
to show the man was in con
trol of the truck as he drove,
said Trooper A. Wilkins of
the Georgia State Patrol.
“Right now, it’s one of the
strangest incidents I’ve ever
investigated,” Wilkins said.
Why the man left the high
way and rammed through
the barn was just one of the
mysteries state and local law
enforcement and fire offi
cials were trying to unravel
Wednesday evening.
The bizarre series of
events began to unfold some
time before 3 p.m. when
the owner of the property,
Audrey Rowden, stepped
outside to let out her dogs.
Prosecutors: DNA
points to suspect
SAVANNAH (AP) -
Prosecutors in a southeast
Georgia rape trial say DNA
evidence ties the defendant
- suspected in a series of
rapes in Georgia and South
Carolina - to assaults on five
Savannah women.
The prosecution rested
its case Wednesday against
Ron Oneil Young after call
ing more than 30 witnesses
who recounted the attacks,
the steps that led to Young’s
capture, and the science that
resulted in a 31-count indict
ment.
Young, 24, was arrested
the morning of July 6, 2005,
after a Walterboro, S.C.,
woman told police she had
been abducted and 1 forced
at gunpoint to perform
oral sex by a man wearing
a white ball cap and driv
ing a blue Dodge Intrepid. A
Hardeeville, S.C., police offi
cer testified Wednesday he
saw the car traveling south
on Interstate 95 and began
tailing it around 4:15 a.m.
He and two Port
Wentworth, police officers
stopped the car after it
crossed the Georgia-South
Carolina state line.
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Dillard 66 38 sunny
Dublin 77 44 sunny
Duluth 68 44 sunny
Gainesville 68 48 sunny
Helen 67 42 sunny
Lagrange 72 46 sunny
Macon 75 47 sunny
Marietta 69 44 sunny
Milledgeville 75 46 sunny
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storms Highs in the
upper 70s and lows
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Sunrise Sunset
7:42 AM 6:59 PM
Tue
10/17
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Peachtree City 71 44 sunny
Perry 76 47 sunny
Rome 70 44 sunny
Savannah 76 47 sunny
St. Simons Island7s 55 sunny
Statesboro 80 48 sunny
Thomasville 80 52 mst sunny
Valdosta 79 49 mst sunny
Warner Robins 75 47 sunny
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Seattle 65 50 cloudy
St. Louis 64 49 sunny
Washington, DC 61 42 sunny
Cox makes first post-primary
appearance - with Perdue
By DOUG GROSS
Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA - Democratic
Secretary of State Cathy
Cox on Thursday made her
first mtgor appearance since
losing her party’s nomina
tion for governor - with the
Republican governor she
had hoped to defeat.
Cox, who lost the
Democratic nomination to
Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor, joined
Gov. Sonny Perdue at the
state Capitol to unveil a new
exhibit at the building’s his
tory museum.
The appearance of bad
blood between Taylor and
Cox has persisted since
the end of a bruising pri
mary face-off. Cox has not
appeared with Taylor since
the primary ended, including
at the state Democratic con
vention, which she skipped,
and former President Jimmy
Carter even stepped in to
help settle a lawsuit between
the two campaigns.
On Thursday, Cox said the
appearance was not a politi
cal statement.
“Pm still secretary of state
until the first of the year,”
Cox said. “We’re simply
doing my job today.”
Cox said the ribbon-cut
ting at the exhibit, which
chronicles the role of reli
gious faith in the state’s his
tory, had been planned for
months and could just as
easily have been held in the
spring, when she was still a
candidate.
“If we would have done this
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in the spring, we would have
done this in the same way,
with the same people,” said
Cox, who said Taylor and all
members of the Legislature
were invited.
Perdue, too, downplayed
the political significance of
the event. But he praised
Cox, saying she has done “a
great job serving the peo
ple."
“This is the people’s
house,” he said. “It’s all the
people’s house and we stand
here today as a Democrat
and a Republican doing the
people’s business.”
Taylor campaign spokes
man Rick Dent did not
immediately return a phone
call and e-mail from the
Associated Press for com
ment.
With Perdue at her side,
Cox declined to say who she
plans to vote for in the Nov. 7
election. She said isn’t ruling
out appearing with Taylor,
but that she’s been too busy
to do so before now.
“We’re kind of taking it
as it comes,” said Cox, who
has appeared at fundraisers
and other events for several
legislative candidates.
During the Democratic
campaign, a Taylor sup
porter sued Cox press secre
tary Peter Jackson for libel.
Jackson publicly apologized
after Carter stepped in, but
partisans on both sides,
including Cox’s husband,
Mark Dehler, continued
bickering about it days after
the deal to drop the suit was
reached.
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