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Beyond the call of duty
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The men and women who dedicate their lives to careers in law enforcement are required to be brave, to be selfless and to help others in distress, and while every one of the deputies in the Newton County Sheriff's Department fits the bill, three were honored Friday afternoon who went one step further, starting a tradition at the NCSO that Sheriff Ezell Brown hopes to continue. When Deputies James Trent and Wesley Atha responded to a suicide call in August, neither men could have known that their actions that day would brand them as heroes and start a county-wide program to provide better