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News Nearby: Dog Kept in Moving Truck Box Dies, Recounts Requested

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Dog in Back of Moving Truck Dies, Driver Charged with Misdemeanor

 this morning arrested a Savannah man whose dog was later treated for exhaustion and low glucose levels.

Authorities responded to  after they received a complaint the man was driving a U-haul through Cartersville with his Cocker Spaniel-mix in the back of the moving truck, according to a news release.

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Cromer, Ruskell Request Recounts

There will be recounts Thursday of the  and races.

, who lost the Cherokee County Board of Education contest against  by 24 votes, and , who finished last in his three-way race with Commissioner Jim Hubbard and former Cherokee County Fire Chief Ray Gunnin, requested the recounts.

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5 South Cobb Men Indicted on Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering Charges

Following a yearlong, multi-agency investigation of two drug trafficking organizations, five South Cobb men and nine others have been indicted and arrested on charges of trafficking narcotics from Mexico and laundering the drug money.

During the course of the investigation of both narcotics trafficking rings, a total of $1.6 million, multiple kilograms of cocaine and crystal methamphetamine were seized.

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Sprayberry Principal Must OK Paper Content

In a move stemming from the publication of an April Fool's edition of a student-run newspaper that called President Barack Obama "a Nazi," the  has ordered that all journalistic content must be approved by the school's principal.

's newspaper "The Stinger" became a lightning rod for controversy in April, when it .

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