POLICE REPORT
      Two cars were riddled with bullet holes during a drive-by shooting in the parking lot of a West Floyd Baker Boulevard restaurant during the early morning hours of Oct. 4, according to reports at the Gaffney Police Department.
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District attempting to reduce truancy
By SCOTT POWELL Ledger Staff Writer spowell@gaffneyledger.com
      County teachers call the roll every day to find students missing from their classrooms. Despite a 97 percent attendance rate, the Cherokee County School District has stepped up its efforts to combat truancy. The district has already done 150 attendance intervention plans in an effort to get students back into school.
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McCain vs Obama
"I thought the vice presidential debate was much better because the candidates spoke more about the issues."
By SCOTT POWELL Ledger Staff Writer spowell@gaffneyledger.com
      An unpopular war in Iraq and a $700 billion bailout provided plenty of firepower in the final month before election day. Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain had the full attention of some Limestone College students Tuesday for their second presidential debate.
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Ambulance flips on way to emergency
By TIM GULLA Ledger Staff Writer tim@gaffneyledger.com
      An ambulance crew en route to a medical emergency found themselves in the middle of an emergency of their own Monday morning when their ambulance flipped on Green River Road. While the circumstances of the crash still are under investigation, South Carolina Highway Patrol spokesman Lance Cpl.
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Council delays action on junkyard law
By LARRY HILLIARD Ledger Staff Writer larry@gaffneyledger.com
      Saying they needed more time to examine its contents, Cherokee County Council put off action Monday on its amended controversial junkyard ordinance. The ordinance, opposed by local junkyard operators, was approved last November.
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Want to know more about NASCAR?
College professor, author to shed light on sport
      There's more to NASCAR racing than speed, horsepower, rubber, and steel. There's a science to handling all that speed around tight curves, inches from the next car, and on Wednesday, Nov. 12, acclaimed author Diandra Leslie-Pelecky, Ph.D., will lecture at the David Reid Theatre on the physics of stock car performance.
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Gaffney High student earns scholarship
      Brooke Montgomery recently received the annual scholarship of the Spartanburg Chapter of Links Inc. A graduate of Gaffney High School, Montgomery is a student at Lander in Greenwood, where she is a member of the International Honors Program and TriBet, a national biological organization.
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Founders Federal returns $6 million in dividends
      Once again, Founders Federal Credit Union is sharing its success with its members. The credit union is returning $6 million to its membership as a bonus dividend - the second time the credit union has returned a bonus dividend of this magnitude.
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     WALKING FOR A CURE — It was a bit cool outside, but not too much for local senior citizens to walk a few laps for a good cause at the Senior Centers of Cherokee County as they participated in a Memory Walk Friday. Participants raised funds for research in hope of finding a cure for Alzheimer's disease. One in eight adults over the age of 65 have Alzheimer's disease.
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