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Ever get told that something's against policy and get the lamest reason as to why? Here's the awesomest reply to the lamest reason. Actually, I think the consumer was out of line but that doesn't mean she didn't make me smile.

Spc. Kisha Makerney
23 years old from Fort Towson, Oklahoma
120th Engineers, Oklahoma Army National Guard

COLUMBIA - A Columbia woman suffered head injuries when she lost control of her car on Pickens Lane during a morning commute.

We've got a dwarf peach tree that's in it's fifth year, and for the first time it's busting out all over with hundreds of little peaches. We picked about 45 last night, threw about that many more in the ditch, and there are two or three times that many left on the tree. The ripe ones are tasty, too.

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Everyone else is doing them, why shouldn't I? Maybe because everyone else is doing them? If everyone decided to strip down to their underwear and jump into the Cumberland River, would I do it, too?

While other little soccer sisters seem content to sit sweetly with their parents on the sidelines, Miss A seems hell bent on running the hubby and I ragged. We take turns making sure she doesn’t bolt out on to the field, jump in the nearby river, or hijack one of the soccer league sanctioned golf carts zipping through the throngs of jersey clad kids.

There was a double homicide early Sunday morning in Maury County near Baker Road. Two suspects have been arrested and one remains on the loose.