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(CNN) -- Don't be confused, Las Vegas.

You did not wake up in a fraternity house. You are not still in college.

Those celluloid-ball-throwing, beer-chugging patrons invading the Flamingo Hotel and Casino are not trying to scare you. They are probably just members of Seek and Destroy -- Wednesday night's winners of the annual World Series of Beer Pong.

Matt White and Ross Hampton came out on top after 22 games to take home the $50,000 prize, money that the recent Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville graduates will certainly be able to use.

"It'll get me by for now," Hampton said after the win.

He said the secret to his team's success in the tournament was "staying sober to play well consistently."

Not always an easy task in a game with "beer" in it name.

Beer pong, or Beirut as it is called on many college campuses, is played with two teams standing at opposite ends of a table. At each end of the table, ten 16-ounce cups, filled with roughly 4 ounces of beer or another liquid, are placed in a bowling-pin formation.

Each team takes turns tossing beer pong balls (similar to table tennis balls) at their opponent's cup formation. If a ball goes into a cup, the cup is removed from the game, and its contents are usually imbibed by the opponent. The first team to knock out all of their opponent's cups wins.

White and Hampton learned to play beer pong the same place most people do -- in college. It wasn't until recently that the two started playing competitively and realized they were actually pretty good.

Their move from casual beer pong players to tournament competitors mimics that of National Beer Pong League co-founder Duncan Carroll's decision to establish a competitive beer pong league. But he insists he and his business partners weren't the first ones to think of organizing it.

"We're just the only people to actually carry it out," he said, laughing.

The world series, in its seventh and largest year, has drawn more than 1,000 players (450 teams) from 48 U.S. states and 14 countries.

Organization of a sport which for many college students is nothing more than a mindless drinking game may sound a little far-fetched, but Carroll said it actually came quite easily to him and his college buddies, all members of the Carnegie Mellon swim team in the late 1990s.

"We played a ton of beer pong," he said.

Despite the popularity of the game on his campus and others, Carroll said there was never really any way to measure a player's skill level.

"There were no organized tournaments," Carroll said, "We figured a lot of people thought they were pretty good, but might wonder, 'How good am I really?'"

After graduating from college with a history degree, Carroll said, his desire to become an entrepreneur paired with the game's widespread popularity made for a perfect fit for the formation of a National Beer Pong League.

The league established rules for the game, a regulation-size beer pong table, as well as a national ranking system similar to that for chess. Competitors can move up and down in the rankings based on the ranking of those they beat.

No surprise to Carroll, his friends think his job is "pretty cool," but overcoming stereotypes about the game has proved to be one of his greatest challenges.

"People who didn't play beer pong in college don't really get it," he said. "It's tricky trying to convince them it's something that people take seriously."

Even his own parents have mixed emotions.

"My dad loves it," Carroll said. "My mom thinks it's debauchery."

Carroll said the tournament attracts a "mixed bag" of people who all "happen to be good at beer pong."

The National Beer Pong League's latest development is an app for the Android smart phone that he says will bring competitive beer pong to even larger crowds. The most casual backyard beer pong player can log on and track their wins on the league's website.

At the end of the day, Carroll said, "It's really just a sport that happens to involve alcohol."

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(CNN) -- Hunger is stunting hundreds of millions of children in the developing world, and more than 90 percent of them live in Africa and Asia, UNICEF says.

Poor nutrition is one of the main killers of young children, the U.N. Children's Fund says in the new report "Tracking Progress on Child and Maternal Nutrition."

"The report we have launched draws attention to the fact that 200 million children under the age of 5 in the developing world suffer from chronic undernutrition," said Werner Schultink, UNICEF's associate director of nutrition.

A lack of food can impair physical, mental and social abilities, the report says, adding that proper nutrition is important for mother and child. The 1,000 days from conception until a child's second birthday are the most critical for development, according to UNICEF.

Undernourished children "will perform less well in school, they will be able to do less well as an adult and, even worse, their health situation in adult life may be negatively affected," Schultink said. "They are more likely to suffer from chronic diseases, such as heart disease or diabetes."

UNICEF says nutrition supplement programs have helped deliver vitamin A and iodized salt to vulnerable children in developing countries, boosting childhood mortality.

Mothers also are being urged to breast-feed their children for at least the first six months to provide key antibodies and nutrients.

Reducing and eliminating malnutrition is feasible, according to the report, which calls on the international community to provide urgent help or face the consequences.

"Global commitments on food security, nutrition and sustainable agriculture are part of a wider agenda that will help address the critical issues raised in this report," said Ann Veneman, UNICEF's executive director. "Unless attention is paid to addressing the causes of child and maternal undernutrition today, the costs will be considerably higher tomorrow."

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BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) -- A 22-year-old medical student suspected of killing a woman he may have met through a Craigslist online ad was arraigned Tuesday and will be held without bail.

Medical student Philip Markoff, 22, appears in court Tuesday in Boston, Massachusetts.

Philip Markoff, a second-year student at Boston University's School of Medicine, listened intently but did not speak during the hearing in Boston Municipal Court. Dressed in a blue-striped shirt and slacks, Markoff was handcuffed and wearing leg irons.

His attorney, John Salsberg, told reporters after the hearing that Markoff is "not guilty of the charges. He has his family's support. I have not received any document or report or piece of evidence other than what I heard in the courtroom. All I have at the moment are words -- no proof of anything."

A woman identifying herself as Markoff's fiancee also maintained his innocence in an e-mail sent to ABC News. Megan McAllister said Markoff "is the wrong man" and "was set up."

"Unfortunately, you were given wrong information as was the public," McAllister wrote. "All I have to say to you is Philip is a beautiful person inside and out and could not hurt a fly!"

She accused Boston police of "trying to make big bucks by selling this false story to the TV stations. What else is new??"

Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel Conley told reporters, "This was a brutal, vicious crime -- savage. And it shows that Philip Markoff is a man who's willing to take advantage of women -- to hurt them, to beat them, to rob them."

A procedural not-guilty plea was entered on Markoff's behalf, Conley said.

A Boston University spokeswoman said the school suspended Markoff, who has no criminal record, when it learned of the charges on Monday.

Markoff is charged with killing 26-year-old Julissa Brisman of New York on April 14 at Boston's Copley Marriott Hotel. Evidence from the scene suggests that Brisman "put up a fight," prosecutor Jennifer Hickman said during the hearing Tuesday. Police said Brisman, a model, advertised as a masseuse on Craigslist, a popular online classifieds service.

She sustained blunt head trauma, Hickman said, and was shot three times at close range. One of those bullets passed through her heart, killing her, she said.

Markoff is also charged in connection with the robbery four days earlier of a woman at a Westin Hotel. In that case, the woman made arrangements to meet a man through Craigslist for a massage at the hotel, but was held at gunpoint and bound, Hickman said. She was robbed of $800 and personal items, and left tied to a door handle with duct tape over her mouth, Hickman said in court Tuesday. Police said earlier the Westin victim was 29. She was not identified.

Authorities believe the motive in Brisman's death was robbery, Conley told reporters, and she was killed during a struggle. In executing a search warrant at Markoff's home, police found a firearm, along with restraints and duct tape, he said.  Watch police say assailant has perused Craigslist ads Â»

Surveillance videos from the hotel where Brisman was murdered showed a tall, clean-cut young blond man in a black windbreaker leaving the property, according to Boston police, who sought public assistance identifying the man.

Police traced the Internet communications with Brisman to an e-mail account opened the day before her death, Conley said. Using Internet provider information, they found the computer was at Markoff's residence in Quincy, Massachusetts, he said. Authorities put the home under surveillance, Conley said, and "the case just begins to build from there."

"This poor woman, Julissa Brisman, no matter what choices she made or decisions she made in life, she is a human being who's entitled to dignity and respect," Conley said.

There may be more victims that authorities are unaware of, he said, adding that the prosecutor's goal is to hold Markoff accountable, not to pursue women who may be advertising on Craigslist. "If you have been a victim like these victims have, please come forward," he said.

Markoff is "bearing up," according to attorney Salsberg.

"It's obviously a difficult time for anybody in these circumstances with the charges that have been brought against him. ... He's pleaded not guilty. He is not guilty," said Salsberg.

McAllister, in her e-mail to ABC, wrote, "Philip is an intelligent man who is just trying to live his life, so if you could leave us alone we would greatly appreciate it. We expect to marry in August and share a wonderful, meaningful life together."

The couple's wedding Web site had been taken down or was unavailable as of Tuesday afternoon.

Authorities in Boston are working with police in Warwick, Rhode Island, on what could be a related case. On April 16 at a Holiday Inn Express in Warwick, a man tied up and demanded money from a 26-year-old dancer who had posted a Craigslist advertisement, Warwick Police Chief Col. Stephen McCartney said.

The robbery was interrupted when the woman's husband entered the room. After pointing his gun at the husband, the suspect fled, McCartney said. He said no conclusions could be made yet, but allowed that the incident "may be related to similar crimes occurring in the Boston area."

Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster told CNN the company is "horrified and deeply saddened that our community services have been associated in any way whatsoever with a crime of violence." He promised that Craigslist will evaluate the incident to see if additional measures could be introduced to protect users.

CNN's Mary Snow and Jason Kessler contributed to this report.

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question: What was found in students home?

answer: restraints

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question: What did Phillip Markoff plead?

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HONOLULU, Hawaii (CNN) -- It's been more than a year since a racial slur threatened to end the television career of Duane "Dog the Bounty Hunter" Chapman. But the incident still weighs heavily on his mind.

Duane "Dog the Bounty Hunter" Chapman watches his son's baseball game this month in Honolulu, Hawaii.

A&E briefly suspended his top-rated reality show in late 2007, and his reputation was on the line.

Now, with his show back on the air and at the top of the network's ratings list, Chapman insists that he does not want the controversy to be forgotten.

"They said, 'It'll pass,' and I said to the guy, 'You know what? I won't let it.' "

Chapman, 56, spoke candidly about accusations of racism on a recent windy Saturday afternoon on the sidelines of 8-year-old son Garry's baseball game.

It was his other son, Tucker, who recorded a profanity-laced conversation with his father and reportedly sold the recording -- which included Chapman repeatedly using the "n-word" -- to the National Enquirer in 2007.

Some African-American leaders called for the cancellation of his show.

Chapman said he was advised to lay low for several weeks, but he refused.

"All the spin doctors ... all those guys told me, 'Dog, say that you were this, say you were that, [but] if you go out there, you're done.' I said, 'I'm going out in a hail of glory. You may call me a convict ... but you ain't gonna call me something I'm not. I'm going out swinging.'"

Chapman said his meetings with leaders of the black community were more than an attempt to redeem himself in the public eye and get his show back on the air. In a February 8, 2008, foreword to his book, "You Can Run But You Can't Hide," he writes that "giving up cussing is just the first step toward my evolution as a human."

He said he was referring to his use of the racial slur, which he admits -- even on the recording -- knowing that it would spark public outrage. But as a former prison inmate of mixed ethnicity -- he is part Native American -- Chapman said he felt he could use the word without it defining him as a racist.

"I was with 38,000 black men at the age of 22 in the '70s, the [prison] guards -- whether they're black or white -- called them that [the slur] every day," he said. "Once I said it and met with leaders of the black community and realized what that word meant, that's when I said, 'I will never again utter that word. Ever.' "

He said, "I don't give a damn that [it] was a private call they burglarized; I knew not to do that. I didn't know not to say the word because what it would do, but I do now. Now if you catch me [saying it], you won't have to stop my show, I'll resign."

Controversy is something that Chapman draws on; it defines his character both publicly and privately. He ran with motorcycle gangs before he was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to a five-year prison term in 1977. He maintains his innocence and served a fraction of the sentence.

His determination to prove he was the world's best bounty hunter led him to Mexico in 2003, where he and his team captured the heir to the Max Factor cosmetics fortune, Andrew Luster, who was convicted in absentia on charges of rape.

The Mexican government charged Chapman and his team with kidnapping and demanded their extradition, but the charges later were dropped.

His life story of an ex-con-turned-vigilante is the hallmark of his celebrity and leads many people to tune in to his show, which began in 2004.

Chapman said his fans perceived the racial slur incident differently.

"Not one black person to this day has walked up to me and said anything bad; it's all been the whites," he said. "[Others said], 'You know here's a bounty hunter, was convicted, went to prison, 30 years later he's arrested 7,000 people. You think he might say a couple bad words.' That's the good things that were said to me."

His 10-year-old daughter, Bonnie Jo, heard about what happened on the radio.

"And she goes, 'Dad, you know you can't use that [word], you're not a rapper. OK, love you, Dad, see you.' And I'm like, 'And is that what your friends are saying?' 'Yep, they know you're not a rapper. They know you're Dog the Bounty Hunter. And it was over, just like that."

While some of his viewers have forgotten the controversy, Chapman does not want it to go away -- particularly the accusations that were leveled against him in the media.

"You better not forget the s*** you put me through over that. I ain't lettin' 'em forget it. Ever. You think black guys forget it? It hurts my feelings to hear it [the slur]. So, yeah, there's such a thing as passing, but I never heard of that. It ain't passing."

He added, "I understand the saying now, 'Lest ye forget.' Don't ever forget that. Please don't forget that, that I went through that. That I learned."

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TRION, Georgia (CNN)  -- The Dodge Neon sped down Interstate 40 in eastern Oklahoma, its occupants heading to Phoenix, Arizona, to buy a load of dope. It was May 2005. The couple brought along methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana to help pass the time on the long journey.

Paul Faulkner, 83, and his son, Michael Smith, were convicted in a drug smuggling ring in north Georgia.

At that moment, Detective Rob Rumble had no clue that the traffic stop he was about to make would launch a years-long drug investigation stretching more than 2,000 miles, from the remote mountains of northwest Georgia all the way down to Mexico.

The investigation showed how an 83-year-old grandfather adapted to the times, morphing from old school bootlegging to dealing Mexican dope. His son acted as the ringleader of the operation. His grandson was tied in too, authorities say.

"I've seen it all. Nothing surprises me," said Rumble, a drug investigator for the district attorney's office in east-central Oklahoma.

After making that traffic stop, Rumble persuaded the nervous, lanky driver from Georgia to work with authorities and tell everything he knew. Investigators were led to a sleepy pocket of Georgia with scenic mountain views where people wave to strangers from their cars and where some homes still fly the Confederate flag.  Watch moonshine, marijuana and a family feud Â»

It's the last place one might expect drugs from Mexico. But the demand for drugs is reaching even the most remote corners of America.

Their story has all the intrigue of a classic Southern novel -- three generations of a family business on the wrong side of the law, complete with an old fashioned family feud.

"When they're in that type of business, there's a reckoning day -- and apparently this is it," said Benny Perry, the 78-year-old mayor of Trion, Georgia, one of the towns where the family was operating.

Perry is a barrel-chested man and speaks in a welcoming Southern accent. "I'll say this, I was completely surprised," he said. "I felt like we had a problem here, but I wouldn't have thought it was originating in Mexico and coming here."

The drugs, mostly marijuana, were trucked from Mexico through California and Arizona and then distributed across five counties in Georgia and one in Tennessee, authorities say. They were hidden in just about anything -- furniture, roofs of big-rigs and tire wells. Once the shipments arrived, the dope was put in 50-caliber ammunition cans and buried in the woods, where buyers would pick up the stash and leave behind thousands in cash, authorities say.  See where the family operated Â»

At the heart of the operation was 46-year-old Michael Leon Smith, who authorities say became one of the richest men in Chattooga County, population 25,000, as he laundered his drug money by buying up dozens of pieces of property. One tract of land sits on Old Justice Road, an ironic name considering the law finally caught up with him.

Smith's 83-year-old father, Paul Leon Faulkner, was also busted. Eight others, including Faulkner's grandson (Smith's nephew), pleaded guilty to an array of charges related to the drug ring. The drugs mostly involved marijuana, but methamphetamine and cocaine were also part of the smuggling operation, authorities say.

"We love it when somebody says they can't be caught," said Del Thomasson, a special agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation who worked the case.

Faulkner, who is suffering from cancer, was handed a 20-year sentence last month and is to head to prison in August. "Twenty years, that is a death sentence," said Giles Jones, Faulkner's attorney, adding that he has appealed the sentence.

He said Faulkner was a "full-time mountain shiner" who could talk moonshine until he was "blue in the face," but knew little about the Mexican marijuana operation. Jones said the old man's son "threw his ass under the bus" to save himself.

"It's a situation where I guess you're just looking out for yourself. It's every day as every day, man," said Jones.

Not so fast, said Cathy Alterman, the defense attorney for Smith, Faulkner's son.

"Michael didn't throw his father under the bus. His father threw Michael down the drain when he was 16 years old," Alterman said. "If the father got a longer sentence, it's because he's a lousy father. ... He was never there for his son, except to be a bad example."

Smith is serving a nine-year sentence in federal prison in Montgomery, Alabama. Faulkner's grandson is also serving a nine-year sentence. There is no parole in the federal system.

Alterman said the sentences are excessive for people involved in dealing marijuana, a substance she says should be legalized. iReport.com: Time to legalize pot?

"Michael's a wonderful family man, a Christian -- which means a lot to him, a very religious man. And I point out that in the Bible, God gave us every seed-bearing plant, and I think Michael looked at it that way. And, unfortunately, our government since 1937 has not seen it as a God-given right."

Alterman is a defense attorney in suburban Atlanta, Georgia. She says about 90 percent of her clients are accused drug dealers, "most of them out of Mexico."

Asked if Smith was dealing with people tied to Mexico's ruthless cartels, Alterman said, "Yes."  Learn more about Mexican cartels Â»

"When you're selling in quantity -- all right, and Michael was selling in quantity -- you need someone who is able to give you a regular supply at a reasonable price, and so eventually Michael did end up buying from people who were from Mexico."

The cartels are so organized, the money so great, that when an operation like this family's is taken down, it doesn't take long for others to move in. "Within 24 hours, if someone's arrested, someone else here already in the United States in the trade will take their place," Alterman said.

"America does not know that the fingers of the cartels are basically around the throat of America," she added, "and it has spread out to rural America just as much as the inner city of Detroit."

Authorities agree. Nearly every rural community is facing a similar battle, with drug dealers taking up shop in small towns where law enforcement has less of a presence and where the nation's highways make for easy transport.

"I think people should care about what happens in a rural area, because let's face it, there are more rural areas than there are cities. Our community is not the only one affected," said GBI agent Thomasson.

A Justice Department study released last year showed Mexican cartels had a presence in 230 U.S. cities, stretching from the U.S.-Mexican border to the Southeast and as far north as Alaska. The nation's rural communities are increasingly affected. See the cartels' urban hubs

"Historically, rural America uses more alcohol and less drugs. That is changing," said Dr. H. Westley Clark, the director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment.

There have been few comprehensive studies over the last decade looking at the problem of drugs in rural America. According to a 2006 report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the use of illicit drugs in America is nearly the same in cities and rural areas, 8.7 percent compared to 7.8 percent respectively.

Another report, in 2000 by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, found that eighth-graders living in rural America were 34 percent more likely to smoke marijuana than in urban centers and 83 percent more likely to use crack cocaine.

In Trion, a town of about 2,000 people, a sign sits at the edge of the community in support of the local K-12 school. It reads, "Trion Bulldogs deserve a drug free community to live and grow!!" The words "drug free" are underlined.

Many here are shocked to hear drugs from Mexico are coming through. Most don't like to talk on the record about the case because the family was well-known, even well-liked.

"You got a guy who's a drug dealer, but you have good people in a community. I mean, they don't have a clue what's going on," Thomasson said.

The town's mayor, Perry, said it's difficult to reconcile a "cordial" local family with the serious drug convictions.

"You could talk to [them] ... and they would speak back," he said of Faulkner and Smith. "That's a big thing up here in a small town. If you speak to somebody and they don't speak back, you think, 'Well, something's wrong here.' "

Perry said local authorities are trying "to stamp out the local demand," adding, "As long as we've got a market for it, they're gonna bring it up here."

Alterman, the defense attorney, agrees.

"Americans are screaming for drugs" and there's millions to be made, she said.

"There's too much money involved."

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text: attorney

text: for

text: Smith

text: Faulkner

text: 's

text: son

text: Michael

text: did

text: n't

text: throw

text: his

text: father

text: under

text: the

text: bus

text: His

text: father

text: threw

text: Michael

text: down

text: the

text: drain

text: when

text: he

text: was

text: years

text: old

text: Alterman

text: said

text: If

text: the

text: father

text: got

text: a

text: longer

text: sentence

text: it

text: 's

text: because

text: he

text: 's

text: a

text: lousy

text: father

text: He

text: was

text: never

text: there

text: for

text: his

text: son

text: except

text: to

text: be

text: a

text: bad

text: example

text: Smith

text: is

text: serving

text: a

text: nine

text: year

text: sentence

text: in

text: federal

text: prison

text: in

text: Montgomery

text: Alabama

text: Faulkner

text: 's

text: grandson

text: is

text: also

text: serving

text: a

text: nine

text: year

text: sentence

text: There

text: is

text: no

text: parole

text: in

text: the

text: federal

text: system

text: Alterman

text: said

text: the

text: sentences

text: are

text: excessive

text: for

text: people

text: involved

text: in

text: dealing

text: marijuana

text: a

text: substance

text: she

text: says

text: should

text: be

text: legalized

text: iReport.com

text: Time

text: to

text: legalize

text: pot

text: Michael

text: 's

text: a

text: wonderful

text: family

text: man

text: a

text: Christian

text: which

text: means

text: a

text: lot

text: to

text: him

text: a

text: very

text: religious

text: man

text: And

text: I

text: point

text: out

text: that

text: in

text: the

text: Bible

text: God

text: gave

text: us

text: every

text: seed

text: bearing

text: plant

text: and

text: I

text: think

text: Michael

text: looked

text: at

text: it

text: that

text: way

text: And

text: unfortunately

text: our

text: government

text: since

text: has

text: not

text: seen

text: it

text: as

text: a

text: God

text: given

text: right

text: Alterman

text: is

text: a

text: defense

text: attorney

text: in

text: suburban

text: Atlanta

text: Georgia

text: She

text: says

text: about

text: percent

text: of

text: her

text: clients

text: are

text: accused

text: drug

text: dealers

text: most

text: of

text: them

text: out

text: of

text: Mexico

text: Asked

text: if

text: Smith

text: was

text: dealing

text: with

text: people

text: tied

text: to

text: Mexico

text: 's

text: ruthless

text: cartels

text: Alterman

text: said

text: Yes

text: Learn

text: more

text: about

text: Mexican

text: cartels

text: Â

text: When

text: you

text: 're

text: selling

text: in

text: quantity

text: all

text: right

text: and

text: Michael

text: was

text: selling

text: in

text: quantity

text: you

text: need

text: someone

text: who

text: is

text: able

text: to

text: give

text: you

text: a

text: regular

text: supply

text: at

text: a

text: reasonable

text: price

text: and

text: so

text: eventually

text: Michael

text: did

text: end

text: up

text: buying

text: from

text: people

text: who

text: were

text: from

text: Mexico

text: The

text: cartels

text: are

text: so

text: organized

text: the

text: money

text: so

text: great

text: that

text: when

text: an

text: operation

text: like

text: this

text: family

text: 's

text: is

text: taken

text: down

text: it

text: does

text: n't

text: take

text: long

text: for

text: others

text: to

text: move

text: in

text: Within

text: hours

text: if

text: someone

text: 's

text: arrested

text: someone

text: else

text: here

text: already

text: in

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: in

text: the

text: trade

text: will

text: take

text: their

text: place

text: Alterman

text: said

text: America

text: does

text: not

text: know

text: that

text: the

text: fingers

text: of

text: the

text: cartels

text: are

text: basically

text: around

text: the

text: throat

text: of

text: America

text: she

text: added

text: and

text: it

text: has

text: spread

text: out

text: to

text: rural

text: America

text: just

text: as

text: much

text: as

text: the

text: inner

text: city

text: of

text: Detroit

text: Authorities

text: agree

text: Nearly

text: every

text: rural

text: community

text: is

text: facing

text: a

text: similar

text: battle

text: with

text: drug

text: dealers

text: taking

text: up

text: shop

text: in

text: small

text: towns

text: where

text: law

text: enforcement

text: has

text: less

text: of

text: a

text: presence

text: and

text: where

text: the

text: nation

text: 's

text: highways

text: make

text: for

text: easy

text: transport

text: I

text: think

text: people

text: should

text: care

text: about

text: what

text: happens

text: in

text: a

text: rural

text: area

text: because

text: let

text: 's

text: face

text: it

text: there

text: are

text: more

text: rural

text: areas

text: than

text: there

text: are

text: cities

text: Our

text: community

text: is

text: not

text: the

text: only

text: one

text: affected

text: said

text: GBI

text: agent

text: Thomasson

text: A

text: Justice

text: Department

text: study

text: released

text: last

text: year

text: showed

text: Mexican

text: cartels

text: had

text: a

text: presence

text: in

text: U.S.

text: cities

text: stretching

text: from

text: the

text: U.S

text: Mexican

text: border

text: to

text: the

text: Southeast

text: and

text: as

text: far

text: north

text: as

text: Alaska

text: The

text: nation

text: 's

text: rural

text: communities

text: are

text: increasingly

text: affected

text: See

text: the

text: cartels

text: urban

text: hubs

text: Historically

text: rural

text: America

text: uses

text: more

text: alcohol

text: and

text: less

text: drugs

text: That

text: is

text: changing

text: said

text: Dr.

text: H.

text: Westley

text: Clark

text: the

text: director

text: of

text: the

text: Center

text: for

text: Substance

text: Abuse

text: Treatment

text: There

text: have

text: been

text: few

text: comprehensive

text: studies

text: over

text: the

text: last

text: decade

text: looking

text: at

text: the

text: problem

text: of

text: drugs

text: in

text: rural

text: America

text: According

text: to

text: a

text: report

text: by

text: the

text: Substance

text: Abuse

text: and

text: Mental

text: Health

text: Services

text: Administration

text: the

text: use

text: of

text: illicit

text: drugs

text: in

text: America

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text: nearly

text: the

text: same

text: in

text: cities

text: and

text: rural

text: areas

text: percent

text: compared

text: to

text: percent

text: respectively

text: Another

text: report

text: in

text: by

text: the

text: National

text: Center

text: on

text: Addiction

text: and

text: Substance

text: Abuse

text: at

text: Columbia

text: University

text: found

text: that

text: eighth

text: graders

text: living

text: in

text: rural

text: America

text: were

text: percent

text: more

text: likely

text: to

text: smoke

text: marijuana

text: than

text: in

text: urban

text: centers

text: and

text: percent

text: more

text: likely

text: to

text: use

text: crack

text: cocaine

text: In

text: Trion

text: a

text: town

text: of

text: about

text: people

text: a

text: sign

text: sits

text: at

text: the

text: edge

text: of

text: the

text: community

text: in

text: support

text: of

text: the

text: local

text: school

text: It

text: reads

text: Trion

text: Bulldogs

text: deserve

text: a

text: drug

text: free

text: community

text: to

text: live

text: and

text: grow

text: The

text: words

text: drug

text: free

text: are

text: underlined

text: Many

text: here

text: are

text: shocked

text: to

text: hear

text: drugs

text: from

text: Mexico

text: are

text: coming

text: through

text: Most

text: do

text: n't

text: like

text: to

text: talk

text: on

text: the

text: record

text: about

text: the

text: case

text: because

text: the

text: family

text: was

text: well

text: known

text: even

text: well

text: liked

text: You

text: got

text: a

text: guy

text: who

text: 's

text: a

text: drug

text: dealer

text: but

text: you

text: have

text: good

text: people

text: in

text: a

text: community

text: I

text: mean

text: they

text: do

text: n't

text: have

text: a

text: clue

text: what

text: 's

text: going

text: on

text: Thomasson

text: said

text: The

text: town

text: 's

text: mayor

text: Perry

text: said

text: it

text: 's

text: difficult

text: to

text: reconcile

text: a

text: cordial

text: local

text: family

text: with

text: the

text: serious

text: drug

text: convictions

text: You

text: could

text: talk

text: to

text: them

text: and

text: they

text: would

text: speak

text: back

text: he

text: said

text: of

text: Faulkner

text: and

text: Smith

text: That

text: 's

text: a

text: big

text: thing

text: up

text: here

text: in

text: a

text: small

text: town

text: If

text: you

text: speak

text: to

text: somebody

text: and

text: they

text: do

text: n't

text: speak

text: back

text: you

text: think

text: Well

text: something

text: 's

text: wrong

text: here

text: Perry

text: said

text: local

text: authorities

text: are

text: trying

text: to

text: stamp

text: out

text: the

text: local

text: demand

text: adding

text: As

text: long

text: as

text: we

text: 've

text: got

text: a

text: market

text: for

text: it

text: they

text: 're

text: gon

text: bring

text: it

text: up

text: here

text: Alterman

text: the

text: defense

text: attorney

text: agrees

text: Americans

text: are

text: screaming

text: for

text: drugs

text: and

text: there

text: 's

text: millions

text: to

text: be

text: made

text: she

text: said

text: There

text: 's

text: too

text: much

text: money

text: involved

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(CNN) -- Kimberley Locke knows a thing or two about singing competitions.

"American Idol" finalist Kimberley Locke is the new co-host of "Gospel Dream."

Having placed third during season two of "American Idol" -- just behind winner Ruben Studdard and runner-up Clay Aiken -- the singer is back in reality show action as the new co-host of "Gospel Dream."

The Gospel Music Channel's talent search is going into its fourth season, and Locke joins fellow host Mike Kasem (son of Casey Kasem) and the judges -- gospel artist J. Moss, Destiny's Child member Michelle Williams and industry executive Mitchell Solarek -- on the show.

Locke has worked steadily since she first burst onto the "Idol" scene in 2003.

She has modeled, served as a spokesperson for plus-sized clothier Lane Bryant and Jenny Craig and appeared on VH1's "Celebrity Fit Club."

All the while, she has continued to pursue her music. Her "8th World Wonder" was a big hit, making the Top 10 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary charts. She's had three dance chart No. 1s.

Locke recently spoke with CNN about the "Gospel Dream," life after "American Idol" and the one reality show she really wants to appear on next.

CNN: How did you get involved with "Gospel Dream?"

Kimberley Locke: Funny enough, I've been wanting to do more hosting, and I had been talking to my manager about it. They contacted me out of the blue, and I was like "Oh, I put it out to the universe, and here it is."

CNN: Are you a gospel music fan?

Locke: I am a gospel music fan. Of course I grew up in the church singing gospel music. I don't listen to as much as I used to, but I used to sing in a girl a cappella group and that's how we started, performing in church.

CNN: Why do you think so many performers in the music industry come out of the church?

Locke: I think a lot of people become stars in their church. ... The church environment is so supportive.

When you are first starting out and learning how to sing in front of an audience, that's the kind of audience you want to be in front of.

Even if you mess up and you sound horrible, they kind of let you stand there and collect yourself while the pianist keeps playing. Then they plow through it with you.

That's a part of the business, a professionalism that really comes in handy when you get to this level.

CNN: You've had some experiences with singing competitions. How is "Gospel Dream" different?

Locke: It's different in that the contestants are very focused on where they want to be and the type of music they want to sing.

When you are on "Idol," you are forced to fit into all of these different genres you may or may not want to do and you may or may not even be familiar with them.

The "Gospel Dream" contestants' direction is really clear and defined, so they are picking songs that really speak to them on a personal level.  Watch Locke talk about the show Â»

CNN: How has life been for you post-"Idol?"

Locke: Life has been great post-"Idol." So many opportunities, so many things I would have never imagined. Things that I didn't even associate with singing, like modeling, hosting, being a spokesperson, owning a restaurant. It just opened so many doors.

CNN: You were a plus-sized model and spokesperson for Lane Bryant, but now you are way too small to do that.

Locke: That really opened me up to bond with my fans. I tell people I'm still a big girl at heart.

CNN: When is your next album coming out?

Locke: I just started working on the next album. We are in the very preliminary stages of putting together the concept of the record and we just compiled a bunch of songs to start listening to.

CNN: Are you planning on doing any other reality shows?

Locke: I'm not really a big reality show fan. I did "Celebrity Fit Club" because there was a purpose behind that in my wanting to lose weight.

There is only one reality show I really, really want to do, and that's "Dancing With the Stars." I want to be on that show because then I'd lose the extra 10 to 15 pounds I want to lose.

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question: Who finished third in season 2 of American Idol?

answer: Kimberley Locke

text: Kimberley Locke

question: Who is a co-host on Gospel Dream?

answer: Kimberley Locke

text: Kimberley Locke

question: Who is Kimberley Locke?

answer: "American Idol" finalist

text: "American Idol" finalist

question: What show would Locke like to appear on?

answer: "Dancing With the Stars."

text: "Dancing With the Stars."

question: What has Locke worked as since appearing on Idol?

answer: new co-host of "Gospel Dream."

text: new co-host of "Gospel Dream."

question: What place did Locke finish on American Idol?

answer: third

text: third

question: Who is cohosting Gospel Dream?

answer: Kimberley Locke

text: Kimberley Locke