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<description><![CDATA[This Herald - The Voice of Nelson Mandela Bay - News Break]]></description>
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<title>'Zuma to blame in Gupta scandal'</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15348</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 09:06:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[OPPOSITION parties placed the blame for "Guptagate" squarely on President Jacob Zuma in a parliamentary debate yesterday. They said he should pay for his role in Guptagate at next year's election.

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<title>'Gangs running rings around cops'</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15346</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 09:01:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[GANGSTERS on the Cape Flats are running rings around the police because they have millions of rands to spend on getting superior intelligence.

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<title>Cop, 56, faces probe over 'false pregnancy'</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15345</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 08:59:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A MIDDLE-AGED Port Elizabeth policewoman is being investigated for fraud after she allegedly falsely claimed to be pregnant and took several months' maternity leave.

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<title>Lobby group in call for tough action </title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15344</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 08:58:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THE Eastern Cape government must lay criminal complaints against officials implicated in corrupt activities if budget spending is to improve, the Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM) said yesterday.

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<title>Drivers like officer's moves</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15343</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 08:53:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A NELSON Mandela Bay traffic officer who uses advanced karate moves to direct traffic at a busy intersection brings a smile to the faces of motorists every morning.

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<title>Officials held hostage in disparity protest</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15342</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 08:51:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[SENIOR Nelson Mandela Bay municipal officials and councillors were held hostage for about six hours this week by Uitenhage and Despatch workers over a dispute about a wage disparity.
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<title>Staff rally behind city manager</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15341</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 08:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[NELSON Mandela Bay city manager Dr Lindiwe Msengana-Ndlela has the full backing of her staff who have vowed to mobilise civil society to protect her from undue political interference.]]></description>
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<title>Mom tells court son called from dead woman's phone</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15339</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 08:42:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[AN emotional mother broke down yesterday as she told the Port Elizabeth High Court her son, who is accused of strangling to death a pregnant Somali woman last year, allegedly phoned her from the woman's phone.

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<title>Nurses win back right to weekend time</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15338</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 08:34:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ABOUT 80 nurses from Uitenhage Provincial Hospital took part in a strike and protest march yesterday in objection to a new system that cuts down on their weekend time.]]></description>
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<title>Chief interpreter ordered to apologise after 'assault' </title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15337</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 08:32:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THE chief interpreter at the Port Elizabeth Magistrate's Court has been ordered to write a letter of apology to a subordinate after he allegedly punched him in the face.]]></description>
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<title>R200 bail granted after husband's death</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15336</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 08:31:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A PORT Elizabeth woman who allegedly murdered her husband at the weekend, has been granted R200 bail.]]></description>
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<title>Teams find 101 tornado survivors</title>
<category>World</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15319</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 08:27:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[RESCUE teams combed through a blasted moonscape that had been a US suburb yesterday after a monstrous tornado tore through the outskirts of Oklahoma City, killing at least 24 people.]]></description>
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<title>&amp;#8216;ENOUGH IS ENOUGH&amp;#8217;</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15318</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 08:24:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Civil society groups, business, ratepayers, non-government organisations and a trade union federation are calling with one voice on President Jacob Zuma to intervene in the ongoing political instability in the city.]]></description>
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<title>Charges against Gupta saga cops dropped</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15317</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 08:22:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ONLY 48 hours after Justice Minister Jeff Radebe announced that criminal charges were to be pursued against police officers allegedly involved in the Gupta saga, the charges have been dropped.]]></description>
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<title>Illegal school to be closed</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15316</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 08:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[AN illegal Nelson Mandela Bay primary school will be closed within the month and pupils moved to other schools after an investigation by the district education department.]]></description>
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<title>Language plan fears</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15315</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 08:19:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[SCHOOL CHILDREN entering Grade R next year will have to learn an indigenous African language.]]></description>
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<title>Owner of pharmacy mourned</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15314</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 08:18:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There are many good memories of him.&#8221; This is one of the things Vanessa Joubert, 34, said of her father, wellknown pharmacist Rodney Griffiths, who died in a car accident on Friday.]]></description>
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<title>Teachers: fury over unspent R533m</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15290</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 09:25:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THE Eastern Cape Education Department has underspent on teachers' salaries by more than R500- million. This has outraged many schools which have suffered teacher shortages because of a claimed lack of funds.]]></description>
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<title>Bay leaders on the carpet over 'anarchy'</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15288</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 09:22:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THE ANC in the Eastern Cape summoned Nelson Mandela Bay political leaders to its headquarters in Calata House yesterday to explain the latest claims of political interference in the city's administration.]]></description>
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<title>Varsities to march against violence</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15287</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 09:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[EASTERN Cape universities will march against violence towards women today.]]></description>
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<title>Bhisho underspending triples</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15286</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 09:18:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[UNDERSPENDING by the Eastern Cape provincial government nearly tripled in the financial year to March.]]></description>
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<title>Angry scenes in three Bay protests</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15285</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 09:14:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[DISGRUNTLED Kleinskool residents promised to make the area ungovernable as they protested against appalling living conditions yesterday.]]></description>
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<title>Residents on rampage after no-show</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15284</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 09:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[DISGRUNTLED Wells Estate residents resorted to violence last night after Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Ben Fihla failed to arrive for a meeting they had asked him to attend.]]></description>
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<title>Protea joins team rhino</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15281</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 08:51:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[PROTEAS and Warriors cricketer Colin Ingram, 27, has added his name to an anti-rhino-poaching campaign. The left-handed Port Elizabeth-born batsman was named ambassador for the Forever Wild Rhino Protection Initiative in Port Elizabeth yesterday.]]></description>
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<title>Zuma/Gupta relationship none of ANC's business: Mantashe</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15273</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 14:01:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It is unnecessary for President Jacob Zuma to explain his relationship with the Gupta family to the ANC, secretary-general Gwede Mantashe said on Monday (20/05/2013).]]></description>
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<title>Huge blaze guts Uitenhage classrooms</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15265</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 10:42:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[FIREFIGHTERS battled for about three hours to contain a massive fire last night which gutted a large part of Uitenhage's Jubilee Park Primary School.]]></description>
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<title>Piece of nautical history found on Bay beach</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15263</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 10:33:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A 200-year-old maritime navigation instrument, thought to have come from the wreck of the Amsterdam,  has been discovered on the beach at Bluewater Bay. The strange device  was spotted sticking out the sand by a party of Zwartkops Conservancy members who were cleaning up the beach recently after a storm.]]></description>
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<title>Mandela daughters sue father</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15262</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 10:23:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Nelson Mandela&#8217;s daughters are suing him for the rights to his artworks and control of his millions, The Star reported on Monday (20/05/2013).]]></description>
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<title>Poll finds traffic police ineffectual</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15258</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 10:12:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The policing of South Africa&#8217;s road laws is largely inefficient, according to a World Health Organisation (WHO) study reported in Beeld on Monday (20/05/2013).]]></description>
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<title>Park gatekeepers suspects in fraud </title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15243</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 09:39:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ALLEGATIONS that four gate guards at the Tsitsikamma National Park have pocketed "a substantial amount" of the park's takings are being investigated by SANParks.]]></description>
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<title>Victory for dreadlocks pupil</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15242</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 09:38:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[IN a David-versus-Goliath scenario, 13-year-old Lerato Radebe has won a discrimination case against a Free State school that expelled her because she wears her hair in dreadlocks.]]></description>
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<title>Zuma in the clear on Guptas</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15241</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 09:37:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[CABINET ministers tasked with investigating Guptagate played a game of smoke and mirrors yesterday, deflecting questions in an effort to protect President Jacob Zuma.]]></description>
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<title>ANC puts screws on 16 dissenting councillors</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15240</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 09:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THE ANC in Nelson Mandela Bay is clamping down on the conduct of its councillors by instructing those who refused to endorse the rigged ward committee elections to explain themselves.]]></description>
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<title>Probe sought into school acid accident</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15239</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 09:34:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[AN Eastern Cape children's rights organisation has called for an investigation after a school pupil sustained severe acid burns to his face.]]></description>
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<title>'Even bucket system beats this squalor'</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15237</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 09:24:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[RESIDENTS of Uitenhage's western areas have taken to the streets nearly every day for the past month, begging the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality at least to acknowledge cries for basic services and houses.]]></description>
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<title>Protesting residents to get new homes</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15236</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 09:23:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THE Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality has secured land for residents to be temporarily relocated to Rosedale extension while houses are built in Polar Park.]]></description>
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<title>Ikamvelihle township RDP house debacle continues a year later</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15234</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 09:21:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A YEAR after it was reported, the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality is yet to resolve an administrative bungle in which two residents were incorrectly registered as owners of the same RDP house in Ikamvelihle township 10 years ago. ]]></description>
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<title>'Lack of moral courage' but hospital project gets nod</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15233</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 09:19:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[PLANS to build a 120-bed private hospital in Port Elizabeth are back on track after a ruling by the Supreme Court of Appeals. However, acting Judge of Appeal Clive Plasket lambasted senior provincial health officials as being morally challenged after bowing to political pressure to push the development through.]]></description>
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<title>Awareness is key to halting crime &amp;#8211; cops</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15232</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 09:16:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[PICKPOCKETS and robbers are preying on unsuspecting victims at a busy Port Elizabeth intersection and in nearby streets. The congested area &#8211; which includes Cottrell and Skidow streets, and Stanford, Cyrus, Kempston and Durban roads and the Korsten taxi rank &#8211; is a crime hotspot.]]></description>
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<title>Juta course spells hope for high-school</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15231</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 09:09:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[JUTA Adult Learning will next month launch a new qualification to give high-school dropouts the chance to increase their employability and re-enter the learning environment.]]></description>
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<title>Port Elizabeth to host third leg of sevens series</title>
<category>Sport</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15230</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 14:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[South Africa will again host the third leg of the Sevens World Series in Port Elizabeth in December, the International Rugby Board (IRB) confirmed on Friday (17/05/2013).]]></description>
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<title>Amcu leader says union will &amp;#8216;bring economy to standstill&amp;#8217;</title>
<category>Business</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15228</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 14:03:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THE leader of South Africa&#8217;s biggest platinum mining union threatened on Friday (17/05/2013) to bring the country &#8220;to a standstill&#8221; and demanded a meeting with President Jacob Zuma&#8218; ramping up the rhetoric in an 18-month labour crisis.]]></description>
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<title>SANDF prepared for battle against Congo forces</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15211</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 10:25:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THE South African National Defence Force (SANDF) is drawing lessons from its battle with Seleka forces in the Central African Republic to prepare for future peacekeeping operations in Africa&#8218; army chief Lt-Gen Vusumuzi Masondo said on Thursday.]]></description>
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<title>'I fear for my life', says city manager</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15189</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 09:06:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[EXPLOSIVE allegations of political interference and veiled threats have been made by Nelson Mandela Bay municipal manager Lindiwe Msengana-Ndlela in a letter sent to Bhisho.]]></description>
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<title>At odds over jobs tenders, security  </title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15190</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 09:05:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[TOPPING city manager Lindiwe Msenga-Ndlela's list of complaints in the grievance are allegations of undue political interference by mayor Ben Fihla and his deputy, Chippa Ngcolomba, in trying to get her to flout various laws.]]></description>
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<title>UDM takes fight over qualifications to court</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15188</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 09:04:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[UDM councillor Mongameli Bobani has turned to the courts after failing to get the support he needed to debate new city boss Lindiwe Msengana-Ndlela's qualifications in council]]></description>
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<title>School rot 'starts at the top'</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15187</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 09:02:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A TOTAL lack of management in the provincial Education Department over the past 16 years led to an administrative collapse and systemic disintegration of the entire school system, according to education boss Mthunywa Ngonzo.]]></description>
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<title>Feuding neighbours land in court once again</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15185</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 08:54:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[AN elderly Port Elizabeth woman who locked her landlady in a garage was yesterday acquitted of kidnapping, but not before the magistrate warned her and the landlady to stop terrorising one another.
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<title>Red Location centre beset by problems</title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15183</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 08:48:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[AS the world celebrates International Museum Day, Nelson Mandela Bay's iconic Red Location Museum is battling a host of problems.]]></description>
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<title>Political parties fire off salvos in bitter salute row </title>
<category>News</category>
<link>http://www.peherald.com/news/article/15182</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 08:46:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[THE ANC and SACP in Klipplaat have hit back at the DA, saying the opposition was trying to score points when it lashed out at the town's mayor's gun salute at a funeral last month.]]></description>
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