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Georgia Democratic candidate for governor Roy Barnes gestures during an interview on Wednesday in Atlanta. Barnes: Ethics questions should disqualify Deal
ATLANTA – Roy Barnes said Wednesday that ethics questions surrounding his opponent Nathan Deal should disqualify him from being governor. In an interview with the media that touched on iss...
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Ga. man sent to prison for false disaster claims
ATLANTA – A Georgia man was sentenced Wednesday to two years and nine months in prison for filing more than 30 false claims seeking emergency compensation for damages from three Gulf Coast...
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Obama: Mideast peace moment must be seized
WASHINGTON – Struggling to break decades of hostility, President Barack Obama convened an ambitious new round of Mideast peace talks Wednesday and told Israeli and Palestinian leaders they...
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Agreement in works for indigent dialysis patients
ATLANTA – Thirty-eight indigent patients whose dialysis treatment was set to end Tuesday would continue receiving the service under an agreement a hospital is negotiating with several clin...
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Gulf oil platform explodes
NEW ORLEANS , La. (AP) — An offshore petroleum platform exploded and was burning Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico about 100 miles off the Louisiana coast, west of the site where BP’s undersea wel...
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An explosives robot is prepared and sent into the Discovery Channel networks building where police shot and killed a gunman who took hostages in Silver Spring, Md., on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) Discovery Channel gunman had explosives
SILVER SPRING , Md. (AP) — Montgomery County police say a man who was shot to death after taking hostages at Discovery Channel’s headquarters in Maryland was carrying a handgun, propane tanks a...
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Rosette Goldstein poses in Boca Raton, Fla., on Wednesday. One of the major bidders to construct the United States’ first high-speed rail is the French national railway SNCF, a company that has been scrutinized for its role in transporting Jews and others to Nazi death camps during World War II. Goldstein and others in the Jewish community are asking SNCF to formally apologize, give full access to its records and pay reparations. Railway faces criticism for WWII role
ORLANDO , Fla. – A bid by the French national railway to build the first high-speed tracks in the United States is running into resistance from Holocaust survivors because of the company...
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Jury deliberates slaying of ex-DA
JESUP – A defense lawyer told jurors Wednesday there’s no denying his client killed a 74-year-old former district attorney, but he insisted it was a crime of sudden rage that doesn&#...
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A Comair jet taxis to the terminal at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in Hebron, Ky. Comair, a regional airline owned by Delta Air Lines Inc., said Wednesday it will cut its fleet by more than half and reduce staffing over the next two years because its costs are higher than competitors. Delta-owned Comair announces layoffs, plans to reduce fleet
Comair, a regional airline owned by Delta Air Lines Inc., said on Wednesday that it will shrink its fleet by more than half and reduce staff over the next two years to cut costs. Comair President ...
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Tim Childs, from Albany, N.Y., prepares to leave a vacation rental house in Avon, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. A tourist evacuation of Hatteras Island and Ocracoke Island are underway as Hurricane Earl approaches North Carolina s Outer Banks. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome) Island evacuations start as Earl nears
RALEIGH , N.C. (AP) — Powerful Hurricane Earl spun toward the East Coast on Wednesday, driving tourists from North Carolina’s vacation islands and threatening to bring damaging winds and waves al...
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