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MISSING TEACHER
Another Grinstead search planned this weekend
FITZGERALD, Ga. (AP) _ A team of cadaver dogs will conduct another search in south Georgia for a popular teacher and beauty queen, who has been missing for five months.
Tara Grinstead -- a high school teacher in Irwin County -- was last seen October 22nd.
A K-nine handler for Dogsouth in Jesup -- Angela Batten -- says she expects to take about eight cadaver dogs to the area this weekend.
Ben Hill County Sheriff Bobby McLemore says the dogs will check an area about ten miles west of Fitzgerald.
Batten said the dogs "alerted" at two of the ponds that were checked last weekend.
Batten says divers were unable to locate a body, and water samples from the ponds will be analyzed to determine if chemicals -- such as ammonia -- may have misled the dogs.
Grinstead's highly publicized disappearance has attracted search teams from as far away as Texas. For a while, the teams conducted almost weekly searches in Irwin and Ben Hill counties.
Now searches are conducted only when authorities, or Grinstead's family, receive specific tips.
The sheriff says Grinstead's family organized the latest search.
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