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In a 24-Hour News Cycle, Which of These Headlines Got Your Attention?

Here are five headlines - local, national and global, that captured our attention recently. Which ones do you care about?

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In a 24-hour news cycle we get to see news headlines again, and again, and again. This is true, up to a point anyway, of local news. But it is so much more the case with news of a more national or global scale.

Here are five news items that hit the headlines recently. 

  1. Rain, rain and more rain
  2. Series of hit and run accidents connected to Monroe
  3. Suicides in local jails - Oconee and Walton counties
  4. The Zimmerman Trial 
  5. The Birth of a new royal heir in Britain
Which one did you find of most interest?

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