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Tuesday, September 07, 2010  Starting Tuesday and going through part of October, Georgia Power is lowering the water level at Lake Chehaw to approximately eight feet.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010  President Barack Obama will address the nation from the Oval Office and also visit troops at Fort Bliss in Texas on Tuesday to mark the end of U.S. combat operations in Iraq.

Thursday, August 19, 2010  The spokesman for U.S. forces in Iraq says Iraqi police and military are up to the task of keeping the country secure after US combat troops complete their withdrawal.

Thursday, August 19, 2010  Staff Sergeant Luke Dill was an 18-year-old specialist, when he rolled into Iraq as part of the U.S. invasion. Now, after two tours of duty, he's 25 and says he's proud to be leaving the country with the last of the U.S. combat units.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010  "The president heard directly from General Odierno, who said that we were on target to complete our drawdown by the end of August. Already we have removed over 80,000 troops from Iraq since President Obama took office," Gibbs said.