Extreme Force Star Wars Episode II shows debut across dates
Corn is popping and fans wait ends as Star Wars Episode II Attack of the Clones premieres. Local audiences in Aiken and Augusta line up for midnight viewings and later showtimes at 3 20, 7 30 and 10 15 p m. Alana Woodward, 14, notes classmates counting the hours until opening.
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Aiken
Augusta
Aiken Mall
Lay
Alana Woodward
Aiken High School
Yoda
Hitchcock Woods burn planned near Fox Chase subdivision
Local forester Gary Burger sought state approval to ignite a 50 acre burn on Hitchcock Woods western side near Fox Chase. With favorable air and ground conditions, managers expect south winds to push smoke back into the woods, not toward Fox Chase.
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Hitchcock Woods
Gary Burger
State Forestry
Harry Shealy
Woods Management Committee
Woods
Fox Chase
Officials warned on 941 about bin Laden threat
US intelligence warned President Bush a month before September 11 that Osama bin Laden's network could hijack American airplanes, prompting the administration to issue an alert. Page 118.
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Bush
Osama bin Laden
Obituary notices list several local residents
Katie P. Eubanks Wilston Elbert Jake Holston Windsor Virginia S. Jennings North Augusta Louise P. Powell Langley Dolly L. Altman Sims Idaho Falls. Obituary notices appear on page 5A listing names and locations of the deceased for the community.
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Katie P. Eubanks Wilston Elbert Jake Holston
Windsor
Virginia
S. Jennings
North Augusta
Louise P. Powell Langley
Dolly L. Altman Sims
Idaho Falls, Kaho
Sorenstam Aims For 40th LPGA Win At International Championship
Annika Sorenstam, dubbed the Tiger of the tour, leads a 144-player field at Mount Vintage Plantation Edgefield County in the Asahi Ryokuken International Championship. She seeks a fourth victory in eight starts this season amid recent form and a $686,242 season haul. Defending champ Tina Fischer praises the field as combatants chase top form and TV coverage begins at 1 pm on The Golf Channel.
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Sorenstam
Mount Vintage Plantation
Edgefield County
Seren
Tiger Woods
Nat
Sorenstan
Aerus Electrolux USA
Annika
Tiger
Golf Channel
Tina Fischer
Fischer
Woman dies after shooting in Aiken home
Denise Simpkins 35 year old woman died from a head wound suffered earlier after a gunshot at her Hampton Avenue home. Her 81 year old boyfriend John Bowman will face murder charges as police investigate a nighttime dispute and the firearm was found under a couch cushion with crack cocaine nearby. Autopsy planned in Newberry. Bowman remains jailed.
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Denise Simpkins
Alampton Ave
John Bowman
Aiken Department of Public Safety
David Turno
Hampton Avenue
Simpkins
Turno
Medical College of Georgia Hospital
Bowman
Aiken Public Safety
Newberry
Aiken County
Colorado and South Carolina clash over plutonium shipments
Colorado lawmakers press bills to fine the Energy Department if Rocky Flats plutonium shipments to Savannah River Site are not begun by July and fully removed by 2003, while South Carolina Governor Hodges backs a halt to transfers. Udall and Allard urge a 2006 cleanup deadline, Hodges calls the move political posturing.
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Hodges
Denver
Colorado
Savannah River
Mark Udall
Energy Department
South Carolina
Jim Hodges
Rocky Flats
SRS
Bush
Department of Energy
Clinton
Cortney Owings
Udall
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