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Red Cross Readies For Worst By Partnering With State Agencies

16 mins ago - With the first tropical storm of the 2013 hurricane season already under our belts, agencies in Georgia are working together to be prepared. Eyewitness News reporter Eames Yates looks at what the Red Cross is doing to be ready for the worst.

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  1. Leon County Booking Report: June 19, 2013
  2. Georgia Police Dog Found Dead In Handler's Car
  3. Fatality In Late Night Leon County Accident
  4. 66 Marijuana Plants Seized From Man's Home
  5. Leon County Booking Report: June 18, 2013
  6. Man Charged With Tossing Wife Off Cruise Ship
  7. Former Godby Student Sentenced To Eight Years For Sexual Battery
  8. Trial: Man Beaten To Death In Health Dept. Parking Lot
  9. North Florida Man Assaulted During First Date
  10. Two Year Old Drowns In Lowndes County
  11. Couple Charged With Creating, Distributing Child Porn
  12. New Road Rules For Big Rigs
  13. Local Deputy Saves 4 Year Old From Death [SLIDE SHOW]
  14. Close Call For Local Man When Tree Falls On Car
  15. Man Gets Life For Shooting Neighbor Over Barking Dogs

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"Moocher" Shot

Updated: 3:37 PM - Police say an 87-year-old man in North Fort Myers shot his stepson in the face for being a "moocher."

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  • FBI hunt for ex-Teamster boss Hoffa's remains ends
    OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- The excavation of a field in suburban Detroit has failed to turn up the remains of former Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa, the FBI announced Wednesday, adding another unsuccessful chapter to a nearly 40-year-old mystery....
  • US tries saving Taliban talks after Karzai objects
    KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Hopes dimmed for talks aimed at ending the Afghan war when an angry President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday suspended security negotiations with the U.S. and scuttled a peace delegation to the Taliban, sending American officials scrambling to preserve the possibility of dialogue with the militants....
  • Bill could reduce illegal immigration 25 percent
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Illegal immigration into the United States would decrease by only 25 percent under a far-reaching Senate immigration bill, according to an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office that also finds the measure reduces federal deficits by billions....
  • Fed suggests it's closer to slowing bond purchases
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Chairman Ben Bernanke ended weeks of speculation Wednesday by saying the Federal Reserve will likely slow its bond-buying program later this year and end it next year if the economy continues to improve....
  • Protesters out again in Brazilian cities
    SAO PAULO (AP) -- Scattered street demonstrations popped up around Brazil Wednesday as protesters continued their collective cry against the low-quality public services they receive in exchange for high taxes and rising prices....
  • As fires rage, feds cut funding on prevention
    COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) -- As the West battles one catastrophic wildfire after another, the federal government is spending less and less on its main program for preventing blazes in the first place....
  • Traffic returns to Wash. bridge that collapsed
    MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) -- Cars and trucks are rolling again across the Interstate 5 Skagit River bridge, restoring the traffic flow on the main route between Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia....
  • Former TWA Flight 800 investigators want new probe
    MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) -- Former investigators are pushing to reopen the probe into the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of New York, saying new evidence points to the often-discounted theory that a missile strike may have downed the jumbo jet....
  • FBI hunt for ex-Teamster boss Hoffa's remains ends
    OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- The excavation of a field in suburban Detroit has failed to turn up the remains of former Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa, the FBI announced Wednesday, adding another unsuccessful chapter to a nearly 40-year-old mystery....
  • Mueller urges caution on NSA program changes
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday urged Congress to move carefully before making any changes that might restrict the National Security Agency programs for mass collection of people's phone records and information from the Internet....
  • Obama urges 'bold' nuclear cuts in Berlin speech
    BERLIN (AP) -- Summoning the harsh history of this once-divided city, President Barack Obama on Wednesday cautioned the U.S. and Europe against "complacency" brought on by peace, pledging to cut America's deployed nuclear weapons by one-third if Cold War foe Russia does the same....
  • US tries saving Taliban talks after Karzai objects
    KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Hopes dimmed for talks aimed at ending the Afghan war when an angry President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday suspended security negotiations with the U.S. and scuttled a peace delegation to the Taliban, sending American officials scrambling to preserve the possibility of dialogue with the militants....
  • Syria infiltrators, Jordan military clash, 1 dead
    ZAIN, Jordan (AP) -- Jordan's military says infiltrators from Syria have clashed with Jordanian soldiers near the border. One infiltrator was killed and two wounded....
  • Group: Exclude Chad troops from UN force in Mali
    UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- A network of human rights groups on Wednesday criticized plans to include Chadian troops in a new U.N. peacekeeping force for Mali while Chad's military remains on a U.N. `list of shame' for child recruitment. But U.N. officials made clear they had no intention of excluding a country whose soldiers are considered among the best African desert fighters....
  • Syrian exiles get taste of home: Beloved ice cream
    AMMAN, Jordan (AP) -- For Syrians, no visit to Damascus' Old City is complete without a stop at a more than century-old ice cream parlor in its main souq where you can watch them make their distinctive desert by pounding it into shape with giant wooden mallets, then enjoy a bowl of it sprinkled with pistachios....
  • Bill could reduce illegal immigration 25 percent
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Illegal immigration into the United States would decrease by only 25 percent under a far-reaching Senate immigration bill, according to an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office that also finds the measure reduces federal deficits by billions....
  • Obama renews calls for nuclear reductions
    BERLIN (AP) -- Appealing for a new citizen activism in the free world, President Barack Obama renewed his call Wednesday to reduce U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles and to confront climate change, a danger he called "the global threat of our time."...
  • IRS draws new criticism over $70M employee bonuses
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Already reeling from a pair of scandals, the Internal Revenue Service is drawing new criticism over plans to hand out millions of dollars in employee bonuses....
  • Oversight board concerned about NSA surveillance
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- The chairman of the group that President Barack Obama says will meet with him to discuss the National Security Agency's secret surveillance program is expressing concerns about the program and says the group will publish a report about its inquiry....
  • Bipartisan proposal on student loans circulating
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- A bipartisan compromise on student loans started to take shape in the Senate on Wednesday linking interest rates to the financial markets. If approved, it would prevent rates for new borrowing from doubling in coming days....
  • DreamWorks says TV revenue to hit $200M by 2015
    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., the studio behind "Shrek" and "Kung Fu Panda," said Tuesday that a new deal to provide original TV shows to Netflix will help it double the revenue it gets from TV shows to $200 million by 2015....
  • Icahn changes tack, seeks $16B Dell stock buyback
    NEW YORK (AP) -- Activist investor Carl Icahn on Tuesday proposed a $16 billion share buyback in his latest effort to thwart Dell Inc. founder Michael Dell's effort to take the struggling computer maker private....
  • Award-winning journalist Michael Hastings dies
    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Michael Hastings, the war correspondent whose unflinching reporting from Afghanistan led to the resignation of a top U.S. army general, has died in a car accident in Los Angeles, according to his employer and family....
  • Social-network gaffes plague Japanese politicians
    TOKYO (AP) -- On the Internet, no one can save you from yourself. That is a lesson many Japanese politicians have learned recently in painful, awkward and at times costly fashion....
  • NYC to offer free phone-charging stations in parks
    NEW YORK (AP) -- It's a message busy New Yorkers hate to get: the low-battery message on your cellphone when there's no charger in sight....
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  4. 66 Marijuana Plants Seized From Man's Home
  5. Leon County Booking Report: June 18, 2013
  6. Man Charged With Tossing Wife Off Cruise Ship
  7. Former Godby Student Sentenced To Eight Years For Sexual Battery
  8. Trial: Man Beaten To Death In Health Dept. Parking Lot
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