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Convicted killer Jodi Arias pauses for a moment during an interview at the Maricopa County Estrella Jail on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Phoenix. Arias was convicted recently of killing her former boyfriend Travis Alexander in his suburban Phoenix home back in 2008, made a plea in court Tuesday for life in prison, instead of execution, saying she can contribute to society if allowed to live. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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PHOENIX (AP) — In a surprise jailhouse interview just hours after a jury began deliberating her fate, Jodi Arias spoke out Tuesday about her murder trial, her many fights with her legal team and her belief that she "deserves a second chance at freedom someday."
Arias spoke to The Associated Press as part of a series of interviews with media out...
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Bekaert employees gather outside the offices at the plant off Darlington Drive to mark the million man-hour zero lost time injury mark. The last lost-time accident occurred in June of 2011. Plant Manager Gary Downey is at the far right. (Doug Walker, RN-T.com)
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Employees at Bekaert Steel Wire , 301 Darlington Drive, are celebrating a million man-hours of production without a safety incident. The last reportable incident at the Rome plant occurred on Ju...
A pilot refuels at the self-serve pump at Rome’s Richard B. Russell Regional Airport. Fuel sales are a major portion of the airport’s revenue and one reason it is operating in the black. (Doug Walker / Rome News-Tribune)
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Floyd County public works crews will be contracted to do a significant amount of work on a couple of federally funded projects at Richard B. Russell Regional Airport . “This is kind of new terri...
Bennett Garland, 17, will graduate from Armuchee High School as salutatorian of his class. (Lauren Jones / Rome News-Tribune)
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When Bennett Garland approaches the podium on The Forum’s stage Saturday and looks out at the hundreds of eyes staring back at him, the Armuchee High School grad-to-be has one goal: to make the...
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama’s policies are working
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Obama’s policies are working
President Obama has been elected twice by the American people. That included winning the Jewish vote. The Obama Administration has the best Middle Eastern foreign poli...
Officers arrest 16 people during River Jam
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Spectators at the sixth annual Rome River Jam music festival at Ridge Ferry Park kept Rome police busy Saturday.
Reports from the Rome Police Department indicate that officers working detail at the...
City asks that Tennis Center of Georgia be part of SPLOST
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The task of forming a list of possible projects to be funded by a 1-cent special purpose, local option sales tax begins this week. Members of the Rome-Floyd SPLOST Citizens Advisory Committee will ...
Police believe robbers live near their target; Big H on Main Street has been robbed for second time in two months
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Police believe two men who have held up the same convenience store twice in two months live in the neighborhood and someone knows who they are.
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Atheists to put books next to Bibles in Ga. parks
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ATLANTA (AP) — A national atheist group said Monday that it will donate its literature for use in cabins and lodges in Georgia's state parks after the governor's recent decision to allow Bibles the...
Tourist chief proposes SPLOST projects to Exchange Club
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The tourism industry brought more than $117.2 million dollars into Floyd County in 2011, according to Greater Rome Convention and Visitors Bureau Executive Director Lisa Smith.
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State assigns consultant to Floyd County schools
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