Ginner Amner Chicas sits at a console dotted with colored lights, watching cascades of cotton tumbling through the fronts of four huge machines that spin and roar 24 hours a day during the peak of the Southern cotton harvest.
Valdosta High School became the first prep team in the nation to win 800 games, shutting out Lee County 36-0 Friday night at Valdosta's Bazemore-Hyder Stadium.
Gov. Roy Barnes outspent Republican challenger Sonny Perdue 11-1 in October, boosting the cost of his re-election bid to an overall $19.1 million. Perdue has spent $2.8 million to date.
