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Thursday, October 2, 2008

Oxford teen wins Hero award

A Georgia teenager is among 25 people honored this year with a Carnegie Hero Award. 18-year-old Kyle Christopherson, of Oxford, Georgia, saved a 47-year-old man from drowning in the Atlantic Ocean at Daytona Beach Shores, Florida last July.

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