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Students spend spring break helping Georgia city
MACON , Ga. (AP) — More than 40 college students from Miami University in Ohio and Boston University used their spring break to do something other than party. They spent the week in Macon at the ...
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Authorities mystified by stolen Civil War cannon
It was routine stuff — as routine as a search for stolen goods can be, anyway. The deputies began an inventory, starting outside a Spalding County house: a Dodge pickup truck reported stolen from ...
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Property appraisal plan OK'd in Senate
DALTON , Ga. — About 400 Whitfield business properties could have more choices in property tax appeals under a bill that passed the Georgia Senate this week. Senate Bill 346 proposes about ...
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Hearts may swoon when stocks do, study suggests
` ATLANTA (AP) — Stock market slides may hurt more than your savings. New research suggests they might prompt heart attacks. Duke University researchers found a link between how a key stock index...
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Ex-US Secretary of State Kissinger hospitalized
SEOUL , South Korea (AP) — A hospital official says former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is recovering after being hospitalized in the South Korean capital with stomach pains. Severance...
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Obama prepares education overhaul
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Saturday promised to rewrite the nation’s sweeping and controversial education law known as No Child Left Behind with a plan to prepare students...
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Senators resist Obama over projects in health bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he wants projects helping specific states yanked from the health care bill Congress is writing. Democratic senators, being senators, beg to differ. ...
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Tthe fountain in Ellis Square (AP/Savannah Morning News, John Carrington) Savannah, Ga., square destroyed in 1950s reopens
SAVANNAH , Ga. (AP) — For more than 55 years, Savannah counted Ellis Square among its lost historic treasures. Of the city’s 22 public squares, Ellis Square was one of the first plotted in ...
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The Stooges gain entry into Rock Hall -- finally
by MIKE HOUSEHOLDER, Associated Press Writer
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DETROIT (AP) — Iggy Pop was starting to feel like the Susan Lucci of rock 'n' roll. Just as the veteran soap actress believed she might never win a Daytime Emmy, the godfather of punk was certain ...
Experts say US doctors overtesting, overtreating
by LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer
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CHICAGO (AP) — Too much cancer screening, too many heart tests, too many cesarean sections. A spate of recent reports suggest that too many Americans — maybe even President Barack Obama — are being...
Bill seeks to halt 'sexting'
by Walter C. Jones, Morris News Service
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ATLANTA -- The case of a teen-aged boy who broke up with his girlfriend by sending her and her mother lurid images of his various private parts via cell phone is what prompted Rep. Cecil Hill, R-Ki...
Democrats pare differences over health overhaul
by ALAN FRAM and JENNIFER LOVEN,Associated Press Writers
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama delayed next week's Asian trip on Friday to seize on suddenly improved prospects for his sweeping health care legislation, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for...
Stocks hover at 18-month highs
by CNN Money
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Stocks ended little changed Friday, as investors welcomed a report that showed a surprise rise in retail sales, but showed caution as the Dow, Nasdaq and S&P 500 lingered below 18-month highs. Cl...
4 sentenced for multi-state gun trafficking
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ATLANTA (AP) — Four people have been sentenced in federal court in Atlanta for their roles in a gun trafficking ring that operated in Georgia and California. U.S. Attorney Sally Yates on Friday an...
Cox: Raise lottery ticket prices for schools
by DORIE TURNER, Associated Press Writer
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ATLANTA (AP) — State schools Superintendent Kathy Cox says lottery ticket prices should be raised to help pay for K-12 education in Georgia. Cox said during an appearance Friday on CNN that hiking...
Ga. hospitals slammed by new budget cuts
by Atlanta Business Chronicle
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Georgia hospitals would be hit with double-digit Medicaid reimbursement cuts and nonprofit hospitals would lose their state sales tax exemption under a new round of budget reductions announced Thur...
Two guns used in high-profile shootings this year at the Pentagon and a Las Vegas courthouse both came from the same unlikely place: the police and court system of Memphis, Tenn.
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Sun Mar 14 07:54:54 -0500 2010
The 6-year-old son of a Colorado nursing student who ran off to Europe to join a terrorist murder cell was brainwashed into a hate-filled Islamic fundamentalist zombie, his family said Saturday, The New York Post reported.
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Sun Mar 14 07:39:00 -0500 2010