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The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday showed off its new 256-bed annex just north of the existing jail on 49th Street. A vacant county bus garage was renovated for $3-million to create the annex. The first 240 inmates will move in Sunday. The extra space helps alleviate overcrowding at the jail's main facility. Cpl. Kathleen Peyinghaus, who will work in the facility, praised it for its smaller, community-type feeling. BRANDON Sister accused of attack with sword A samurai sword-wielding woman was arrested early this morning in Brandon after attacking her sister, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. Deputies arrested Annette Clarissa Smith, 42, at 12:42 a.m. at 601 Brentwood Place in Brandon. According to the arrest affidavit, the incident arose from an argument.
US elections 2004
For supporters of John Kerry, who have seen allegations about the Democratic candidate's military record sap his campaign, it must have seemed like a case of just deserts.
The president, George Bush, was last week looking vulnerable on the same grounds after CBS's flagship current affairs show, 60 Minutes, broadcast a report claiming he had been suspended from pilot duties for failing to meet the required standards. It was also claimed that a commanding officer had been put under pressure to "sugar coat" Mr Bush's performance reviews.
But while CBS stands by its story, allegations have now surfaced that 60 Minutes based a large part of the report on forged documents.
Although what one man - even a presidential candidate - did more than 30 years ago can seem rather trivial, the US election is being fought between a self-declared "war president" and a man who, in stump speeches, claims he would defend his country as president in the way he had defended it as a young man.
From Maine to Malawi: Camden woman finds inspiration in Africa
At 26, Lucy Amory has seen a lot of the world, but nothing could have prepared her for witnessing 18 births in one night. Currently enrolled in a pre-med program at the prestigious Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, the Camden Hills Regional High School grad has spent time in Vietnam, Italy and France and taught for two years in the Mississippi delta. She started this year by traveling to the East African country of Malawi for a five-month stint volunteering with Partners in Health, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide comprehensive, community-based health care in the face of devastating epidemics of AIDS, infant and maternal mortality and poverty. .
Movie Review: 'The Kite Runner'
Marc Forster ("Stranger Than Fiction," "Finding Neverland"), one of our most reliable directors of late, starts this emotionally stifling drama of omission and fight for redemption with a box kite flapping in the stiff San Francisco wind of 2000. Afghan-in-exile Amir (Khalid Abdalla), who has spent the past 20 years or so in the Bay Area, has a beautiful wife. Yet he looks as if he's carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders. When David Benioff's screenplay, adapted from Khaled Hosseini's 2003 novel, flashes back to Kabul of the late 1970s, it isn't long before we begin to understand why. .
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