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Georgia Senate OKs online voter registration bill
ATLANTA – In a vote that largely followed party lines, the state Senate approved a bill Wednesday that would allow online voter registration for Georgians with a valid driver’s licen...
March 18, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Carter laments 'unprecedented' partisan divide
ATLANTA – Former President Jimmy Carter on Wednesday called the divide among Republicans and Democrats in Washington “unprecedented,” and said President Barack Obama should con...
March 18, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Moein Khawaja, with the Council on American-Islamic Relations, displays a "World of Islam" book by Mason Crest Publishing during a news conference in Philadelphia, Wednesday, March 17, 2010. The Muslim civil liberties group is protesting the series of children s textbooks that it says contains misleading and inflammatory rhetoric against Islam. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) Group decries textbooks on Islam
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A series of children’s textbooks on Islam contains misleading and inflammatory rhetoric about the religion, inaccurately portraying its followers as inherently violent and de...
March 17, 2010 01:33 PM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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U.S., Israel try to back away from brink in row over homes
WASHINGTON – The United States and Israel stepped back Tuesday from their most public rift in a decade, a dispute over new Jewish homes in a traditionally Arab part of Jerusalem that quick...
March 17, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Budget task force focuses on state's long-term solutions
ATLANTA – Business leaders are offering dozens of suggestions on how to streamline Georgia state government but most won’t help this year’s budget crisis and some would be poli...
March 17, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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March madness
WASHINGTON – With time and tempers short, everyone’s playing hardball in the drive to pass – or stop – President Barack Obama’s massive health care legislation by t...
March 17, 2010 01:00 AM | 1 1 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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American Airlines wants exemption
NEW YORK (AP) — Add American Airlines to the list of carriers that want out of the government’s new rule to limit the time passengers can be held on the tarmac. American has filed for a tempor...
March 16, 2010 12:45 PM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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South Atlantic region gets new bureau chief
ATLANTA – Michelle Williams, chief of bureau for The Associated Press in Arizona and New Mexico, has been appointed chief of bureau for the South Atlantic region. The appointment was annou...
March 16, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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University of Georgia student Eli Gaultney, 20, right, holds up a sign while demonstrating against state budget cuts to education at the Georgia Capitol on Monday. A few hundred college students rallied to protest budget cuts they say could make college too expensive at a time when education is needed with a shrinking pool of jobs. Students rally against education funding cuts
ATLANTA – A few hundred college students rallied on the steps of the Georgia Capitol on Monday to protest budget cuts they say could make college too expensive at a time when education is ...
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Gov’t recalls 1.2 million high chairs
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is announcing a recall of some 1.2 million high chairs, saying they pose a fall hazard to children. The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the voluntar...
March 18, 2010 09:50 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano speaks in Georgia
BRUNSWICK – The U.S. is working hard to forge agreements with other nations to improve airport security worldwide after a failed Christmas Day bombing attempt aboard a Detroit-bound airlin...
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Judge backs off from reporter
CLEVELAND (AP) — A judge threatened to arrest a newspaper reporter who saw a psychiatric evaluation of a serial-killing suspect, then backed off Wednesday when she learned that her predecessor i...
March 17, 2010 03:13 PM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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A San Antonio Air Life helicopter transports victims involved in a bus accident on southbound Interstate 37 near Campbellton, Texas on Tuesday, March 16, 2010. The bus was headed for Mexico. (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Bob Owen) Cause of fatal Texas bus crash unknown
CAMPBELLTON , Texas (AP) — The bus had been on the interstate about an hour when the spring breakers and other travelers headed toward the U.S.-Mexico border heard a noise and then felt the bus f...
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An Experimental Lancair IV-P airplane lies beached on Hilton Head Island, S.C., on Tuesday, the day after its pilot made an emergency landing. The pilot, Edward Smith, and his passenger survived the crash, but Robert Gary Jones of Woodstock, who was jogging on the beach, was killed when he was struck by the plane. Woodstock man killed by plane on S.C. beach
HILTON HEAD ISLAND , S.C. – Robert Gary Jones was a pharmaceutical salesman on a business trip, looking forward to getting home to celebrate his daughter’s third birthday. He was ...
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In this Nov. 12, 2006 file photo, unsold 2007 Elements sit on the lot of a Honda dealership in Littleton, Colo. Honda Motor Co. on Tuesday, March 16, 2010 said it is recalling about 410,000 Odyssey minivans and Element small trucks because of problems with the brake pedals. The recall includes 344,000 Odysseys and 68,000 Elements from the 2007 and 2008 model years. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File) Honda to recall 410,000 vehicles
DETROIT (AP) — Honda Motor Co. will recall more than 410,000 Odyssey minivans and Element small trucks because of braking system problems that could make it tougher to stop the vehicle if not re...
March 16, 2010 02:36 PM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Two unidentified men stand near a plane that crashed along a beach in Hilton Head, S.C., Monday, March 15, 2010. Officials said a man was killed during the plane s an emergency landing. (AP Photo/The (Hilton Head) Island Packet, Jay Karr) Plane kills jogger in SC
HILTON HEAD ISLAND , S.C. (AP) — A 38-year-old father of two was jogging and listening to his iPod when he was hit from behind and killed by a small plane making an emergency landing on the b...
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Court dismisses anti-lying law complaint
ATLANTA (AP) — An appeals court ordered a federal judge to dismiss a complaint that claimed a Miami-Dade County ordinance making it a crime punishable by fines and jail to lie during petition dr...
March 15, 2010 01:51 PM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Our girls
KNOXVILLE , Tenn. – Odette. Benita. Valancia. Atanie. Each Sunday morning, members of White Stone Church spread photos of the girls’ grinning, impish faces across a folding table befo...
March 14, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Senators question charity CEO's $1M pay
A group of Republican senators is questioning high salaries and expensive travel bills for executives at the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, raising issues that could jeopardize millions in fed...
March 13, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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