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Ecreia Laki Perez is being held on $6,000 bond in the Fulton County Jail after allegedly trying to bring a handgun and a stun gun that resembled a cell phone into the courthouse *** The maker of anti-wrinkle agent Botox has reached a $600 million settlement with federal prosecutors and agreed to plead guilty to illegal promotion of the product *** Hurricane Earl was barreling toward the Eastern Seaboard on Thursday with winds swirling at around 145 mph *** Two years after committing to fielding a football team and 97 years after the school's founding, Georgia State will play football tonight. The Panthers will play Shorter, the first date on its inaugural 11-game schedule that concludes with a Nov. 18 match-up against defending national champion Alabama *** U.S. prosecutors have charged the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, in the plot that killed seven CIA employees at an American base in Afghanistan last December *** Crews are expected to try to remove the blowout preventer on BP's ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday. Officials plan to detach the blowout preventer from the well and replace it with a new one, a procedure aimed at paving the way for a final fix *** View Albany Herald photos at www.albanyherald.com Click "Get Photos" to make your selections from the homepage

Letters to the Editor
Banishment sets up retaliatory sentencing 1 Comment Last Updated: 12:04 AM 09/02/10 - Edward Schweikert, Albany (Full Story)
Elected officials should have to come clean 0 Comments Last Updated: 12:02 AM 09/02/10 - Walt Specht, Leesburg (Full Story)
Public had an impact on Grovetown decision 0 Comments Last Updated: 11:03 PM 08/31/10 - Robert Rehberg, Leesburg (Full Story)
Bishop aide’s threat D.C. business as usual 1 Comment Last Updated: 12:18 AM 08/31/10 - Last week the big political news in the Second Congressional District was a story printed in The Albany Herald where a Calhoun farmer told Congressman Bishop that he would not vote for him because of his vote for Obamacare. (Full Story)
Restless leg syndrome is no laughing matter 1 Comment Last Updated: 12:21 AM 08/31/10 - Page Two would like to explain to Mr. Gamble (columnist T. Gamble, “Researchers blow off need for gnat studies,” Aug. 26) that RLS is not funny, and to compare it with the gnat problems that he and Fathead, Hammerhead or whatever his name is, is no laughing matter. You can get away from the gnats, but RLS doesn’t give you any choices. (Full Story)
Police car theft like comedy film plot 2 Comments Last Updated: 11:58 PM 08/29/10 - VALKEY TIERNAN, Albany (Full Story)
Lee library/conference center no urgent need 1 Comment Last Updated: 10:23 PM 08/27/10 - RICHARD F. “RICK” TURNER, Leesburg (Full Story)
CRCT test takers may outshine public officials 0 Comments Last Updated: 10:21 PM 08/27/10 - DAVID B. FULLER, Albany (Full Story)
Time to put ‘work horse’ to pasture 6 Comments Last Updated: 12:13 AM 08/27/10 - Mike Sabot, Leesburg (Full Story)
School chief's action hurts school system 0 Comments Last Updated: 10:56 PM 08/25/10 - Bryan Bartholomew, Albany (Full Story)
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Sherrod dismissal set up to discredit Fox, Beck
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Texting while driving ban a privacy invasion
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Congressman's seniority asset to the district
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Ferrell says Keown voted to raise taxes
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Rep. Bishop stands for ethics and farmers
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