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LOCALOn Wednesday evening seven choirs put their competiveness aside to participate in a friendly Christmas show at the Paramount in Anderson. Over 200 kids participated in the show from 3 different high schools Highland, Anderson, and Liberty Christian for the first time. For the past 15 years this has been an annual event that many people from the community greatly enjoy. There were about 550 very pleased audience members and more are expected to show up for Thursday's showing of county choirs.

STATE

In Laporte, IN, a man has been accussed of stealing a twin engine plane and taxiing it around. This stunt man was drunk when he did it and he says his reasoning because he wanted to impress his girlfriend. The 38 year old man was charged with theft, criminal mischief, and driving even though his driver's license has been revoked for life. Flames started shooting out the left engine and damages are estimated at $160,000.

NATIONAL

In St. Augustine, FL an innocent parade turned in to a tragic accident for a young boy. The boy was riding on the front of the float with his feet dangling off the front when his foot got stuck in the tires and he got drug under. A nurse and off-duty worker ran to his rescue when they saw the giant float run over the boys abdomen. After he was airlifted to a near by Medical center he was listed in stable condition.

WORLD

In the world, the presidential election is happening in Russia. Putin is way ahead in the voting polls. Only 55% of the vote has been counted but at this point the current president already has 62.9% of the vote. The oppostion communist party says the count is unfair and the promise to protest if the votes continue to favor Putin. They claim they have been harassed by the current government.

SPORTS

Sean Taylor was a proffestional football player for the Washington Redskins. Recently, he was killed and now four people are behind bars charged with his murder. Thousands of peoples mourned his death but his team honored him at their game on Sunday by starting with only 10 men on the first play. His killers started with a simple bugurlarly but it turned bloody when Taylor turned out to be home.

BUSINESS

The computer company Dell has to decided to join forces with giant marketing agent WPP. There contract is three years long and during that time WPP will handle about 5.4 Billion dollars worth of Dell advertisments. In the past Dell has worked with over 800 companies at once. This new path will allow the company to have 100% of its advertising being done by one company and will be one less thing to worry about.

SCI/TECH

The gift to recieve this year as the market is seeing is the Wii. Even at $6oo on the internet the demand is very high. Nintendo is having a hard time filling the demand for their new console and because of that people are going to internet socres like Amazon and Ebay to get the console and are paying high dollar prices for it even though it is retailed at $250. Microsoft and the Playstation lowered the prices of their consoles to try to encourage buyers but it can't compete with the demand for the Wii.

HEALTH

A little boy in Atalantic, GA seems to be allergic to everything and its confusing docotors and the childs parents. The boy can't eat soy, milk, or peanut products. If he eats these products he breaks out in hives and can stop breating at any minute. He's rarely severe condintion has changed the life of the whole family and if they eat out they have to pack a lunch for Teddy. When he starts school, the alleregy is so severe that he will probably have to sit at a lunch table all by him self. He has to constantly have and use epi-pens which are becoming very common for kids with allergies (including myself).

IRAQ/AFG.

The November report from Iraq is back and for once its positive. Generals are saying that fewer fighters are entering the country from Syria and Iran. The civilian death toll is the lowest its been since February 2006. This marks the third month in a row that theire has been a decline in civilian causlities. In addition the death toll for American troops is the lowest since early 2004! Finally, something may be going right in Iraq.

ELECTION

The 2008 presidetial canidates are using the internet/web in a whole new way that it has never been used before. As we enter the time for the nasty ad campains to start, its looking like its gona be worse then ever before. Democrats are going with the view that they are going to use every wepon they have to get what they need to do. Repbulicans want to hurt democrats on their strengths. It is sad that our presidential canidates are lowering themseleves to below-the-belt-sucker punches but they are and voters need to learn to tune most of it out.