An officer checking behind houses in the 300 block of West 43rd Street in reference to complaints of drug use and prostitution, found a man and woman behind an […]
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HITLESS WIN LANDS GNATS IN RECORD BOOKS AND ON ESPN In one crazy record-breaking inning last Thursday, the Savannah Sand Gnats defeated the Greenville Bombers 4-3 — without registering so […]
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Ben Hubby’s prescription: ‘more passion’
Seven months ago we were consumed. If not by Iraq, then by politics. We speculated, deliberated, debated. We spoke out. We put up bumper stickers, sought out yard signs, staked […]
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The prison of prejudice
Its one thing to read about the prison abuses at Abu Ghraib, the sadism, the meanness, the degradation. Its another to learn what we knew about the people behind the […]
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The Blotter
Officers responded to a complaint about a juvenile on Dodge Avenue. When they arrived, a woman told them a neighbor child threw cookies and onions at her son, hitting […]
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Let the Firefly fly!
I dont know about you, but the next time I decide to go out to dinner it will probably be to downtown Savannahs Firefly Cafe. Theres easy parking (once the […]
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A man reported to police that his vehicle was stolen back by the man who had sold it to him a week earlier. He said the suspect had sold […]
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Far away, but yet so close
On Phoenix first ozone pollution alert of the season — which happened to be Earth Day — I arrived at Barry M. Goldwater Terminal for a Passover Seder with some […]
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Letters to the Editor
Raising minimum wage would be counterproductive Editor, Jack Stars 50-cent solution to the problem of funding Social Security, described on page 11 in the April 20-26 issue of your paper, […]
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A man called police to report that his brother had come to his house drunk. When he refused to let his brother inside, the brother sat in his vehicle […]
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Medicine loses local pioneer
Allopathic medicine lost a pioneer in epidemiological research when Dr. Curtis G. Hames, Sr. passed away in Savannah on Jan. 6. Dr. Hames, a 1994 graduate of the Medical College […]
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Chalk it up to the power of art
Whoever thought that a SCAD spring event would go from being a small gathering for students to a festival attended by nearly 10,000 students, Savannahians and tourists? As unlikely as […]