Cobb and State

Tour plans to make splash

• ACWORTH - The city of Acworth is preparing to start the summer with a few tricks, flips and a big splash as the city welcomes a professional wakeboarding event.
  
  
  
  The MasterCraft Pro Wakeboard Tour makes its first stop in its five-city tour at Acworth's Dallas Landing Park on May 16 through May 18. The event runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on all three days.

Business

Shipbreakers paying for shot at government ships

• BROWNSVILLE, Texas - The air tastes like pennies at this gritty port at the southern tip of Texas, where ships' final voyages end and steel is reborn.
  
  
  
  Recycling here is big business, on a scale that counts in thousands of tons, not pounds. It's where torch-wielding workers strip ships' decks and cut their hulls for the metal to form new steel that could end up in washing machines or even new ships.

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