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Solar industry pushes for more use in Georgia
The solar industry in Georgia is pushing a power monopoly to expand its use of solar energy as it plans to meet the state's electricity needs over the next two decades.
May 22, 2013 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Local self-defense squads watch as Mexican army soldiers enter the town of La Ruana, Michoacan, Mexico, Monday, May 20, 2013. Residents of western Mexico towns who endured months besieged by a drug cartel are cheering the arrival of hundreds of Mexican army troops. Hundreds of people in the state of Michoacan have taken up arms to defend their villages against drug gangs, a vigilante movement born of frustration at extortion, killings and kidnappings in a region wracked by violence. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
Troops flood western Mexico to protect towns
Mexico's top security officials gathered Tuesday in the western state of Michoacan to launch a campaign with thousands of army troops to rescue towns besieged, sometimes for months, by the powerful...
May 21, 2013 03:45 PM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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An aerial view of a street lined by homes destroyed by Monday's tornado is shown Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla. At least 24 people, including nine children, were killed in the massive tornado that flattened homes and a school in Moore, on Monday afternoon. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
Power of Moore tornado dwarfs Hiroshima bomb
The awesome amount of energy released over Moore, Okla., dwarfed the power of the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima.
May 21, 2013 02:45 PM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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This evidence photo released Monday, May 20, 2013, by the West Valley City Police Department shows a journal collected from Josh and Susan Powell's house. Citing a lack of leads, a police agency said Monday that it is closing the active investigation of the disappearance of Susan Powell, a Utah mother whose now-dead husband was a prime suspect. West Valley City police called the news conference to offer new details in the case that's been largely kept under wraps since Powell vanished in 2009. The announcement came after police spent two days searching in rural Oregon last week for any trace of Powell's body. (AP Photo/West Valley City Police Department )
Utah man, brother suspects in wife's disappearance
Newly released police records show that Utah officials believe Josh Powell likely killed his wife and that his brother, Michael Powell, helped dispose of the body, but authorities felt they didn't ...
May 21, 2013 10:50 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Several mull challenges to state’s last white Democrat congressman
Now that Rep. John Barrow has turned down a campaign for the U.S. Senate, the challenge ahead for the Deep South’s last white Democratic congressman will be to defy the odds a second time by winnin...
May 21, 2013 12:09 AM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Georgia News Roundup
Today's stories include - Georgia Democratic chair faces discipline by state bar - Woman shot on coastal Georgia golf course, hospitalized
May 20, 2013 03:25 PM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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A flag flies in the debris of a mobile home after a tornado struck a mobile home park near Dale, Okla., Sunday, May 19, 2013. (AP Photo Sue Ogrocki)
Oklahoma, other tornado-hit states brace for more
The tornado was one of several that touched down Sunday in the nation's midsection, concentrating damage in central Oklahoma and Wichita, Kan. Two people were killed in or near the mobile home park...
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FILE - In this May 15, 2013 file photo, a service person works on sign at BP station at 35E and County Road E in Vadnais Heights, Minn. The average U.S. price of a gallon of gasoline has jumped 11 cents over the past two weeks. The Lundberg Survey of fuel prices released Sunday, May 19, 2013 says the price of a gallon of regular is $3.66. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Marlin Levison, File)
US gas prices up 11 cents over past 2 weeks
The Lundberg Survey of fuel prices released Sunday says the price of a gallon of regular is $3.66. Midgrade costs an average of $3.84 a gallon, and premium is $3.98.
May 20, 2013 10:46 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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In this photo copied from the 2010 Sleepy Hollow High School yearbook, high school student Andrea Rebello is shown. Police said Rebello, a junior at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., was shot and killed Friday, May 17, 2013, during a break-in near the college campus. (AP Photo/Sleepy Hollow High School)
Split-second choice ended with NY student dead
Hofstra University junior Andrea Rebello, who was held in a headlock by an masked intruder armed with a loaded gun, died when a veteran police officer fired eight shots - seven hitting the intruder...
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Julianne Thompson, co-Chairman of the Atlanta Tea Party, speaks in front of Gov. Nathan Deal during a tea party rally at the Georgia Capitol on Tuesday.<br>The Associated Press
Tea party groups protest IRS during rally in Atlanta
The event was one of several across the country. IRS officials have acknowledged that some conservative groups received inappropriate attention and questioning in recent years as they applied for t...
May 22, 2013 12:07 AM | 2 2 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Georgia News Roundup
Today's stories include - Andrea Sneiderman re-arraigned in husband's death - Rapper Chief Keef arrested at hotel near Atlanta - Sheriff's officials find 3 dead bodies in woods - Deal weighs in on ...
May 21, 2013 04:30 PM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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With high-tech guns, users could disable remotely
A high-tech startup is wading into the gun control debate with a wireless controller that would allow gun owners to know when their weapon is being moved — and disable it remotely.
May 21, 2013 03:00 PM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Medical examiner's office revises death toll from Oklahoma tornado to at least 24
MOORE, Okla. (AP) — The state medical examiner's office has revised the death toll from a tornado in an Oklahoma City suburb to 24 people, including seven children. Spokeswoman Amy Elliot said...
May 21, 2013 09:43 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Atheists donate books to parks
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 there.
May 21, 2013 12:11 AM | 9 9 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Senators OK fingerprinting at airports for foreigners
Senate supporters of far-reaching immigration legislation accepted minor changes in public while negotiating over more sweeping alterations in private Monday as they drove toward expected Judiciary...
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State announces plan to assess oil, gas at refuge
Alaska is proposing a multiyear plan that includes seismic surveys, environmental studies and exploration drilling on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
May 20, 2013 11:45 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Kerry vows better security at US diplomatic posts
Secretary of State John Kerry is vowing that the Obama administration will spare no expense or effort to protect U.S. diplomats serving overseas.
May 20, 2013 11:35 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Parents fuming over locked doors at graduation
Several parents of Spelman College graduates are furious after locked doors prevented them from seeing their children's commencement.
May 20, 2013 10:35 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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A derailed Metro-North rail car is hoisted back on to the tracks in Bridgeport. Conn. on Sunday, May 19, 2013. Crews will spend days rebuilding 2,000 feet of track, overhead wires and signals following the collision between two trains Friday evening that injured 72 people, Metro-North President Howard Permut said Sunday. (AP Photo/The Connecticut Post,Brian A. Pounds ) MANDATORY CREDIT
Commutes long, slow after Connecticut train derailment
It took Gary Maddin of Milford an hour to make what is normally a 20 minute drive from his home to the Bridgeport train station. From there, he planned to board a shuttle bus to Stamford where he c...
May 20, 2013 10:30 AM | 1 1 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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