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The elementary school notes that used to read, "Do you like me? Check: yes, no, maybe," have gotten a major upgrade - Facebook style.

Thanks to the new Facebook application "Are You Interested?" no one ever will suffer needlessly the utter humiliation and awkward dialogue of a date request turned sour.

Univ. student charged with animal cruelty absent at court hearingAshley Rose Council was scheduled for her first day in court Tuesday, but she did not attend. Council, a junior from Ellenwood, faces seven felony counts of animal cruelty. She is accused of beating seven puppies to death and leaving their bodies near a dumpster, according to police records.

The SEC East is a mess right now - the kind of mess that makes fans shake their heads, "experts" temper their bold predictions and coaches constantly optimistic.

"It's a wild year, isn't it? I'm just taking this baby one at a time," Georgia head coach Mark Richt said.

Every year visitors flock to Helen, Ga., to "Fruit Loop the Hooch." Locals wryly comment that a number of tourists on multi-colored inner tubes floating down the Chattahoochee River turn the "Hooch" into a giant bowl of cereal. However, Helen is known best for its annual Oktoberfest, occurring from mid-September through October.

For the Ad-Hoc University Task Force on Water Resources, "every drop counts and every person counts" as the University deals with the severe drought. The task force held a public forum Tuesday night in the University Chapel to address the situation and garner public input.

Mark Richt has been good on the road. But the "neutral site" in Jacksonville has not been so kind. Richt is 23-4 in road games since he arrived in 2001 but 1-5 against Florida at Jacksonville. While Jacksonville is in the state of Florida, it serves as a halfway point between Athens and Gainesville.

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