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New test viewed as major advance in diagnosing TB
Scientists are reporting a major advance in diagnosing tuberculosis: A new test can reveal in less than two hours, with very high accuracy, whether someone has the disease and if it’s resist...
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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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Barnes: Ethics issues 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 that touched on issues from immigr...
September 02, 2010 12:00 AM | 4 4 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Deal in the works for poor 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...
September 01, 2010 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Deja vu
ATLANTA – In an election year with an angry electorate, former governors in five states are hoping that a deja vu appeal sells better than the anti-establishment pitch. The candidates R...
September 01, 2010 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Study says ovary removal gives a triple benefit in high-risk women
CHICAGO – Surgery to remove healthy ovaries gives a triple benefit to high-risk women: It lowers their threat of breast and ovarian cancer, and boosts their chances of living longer, new r...
September 01, 2010 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Work continues on the foundation for a new nuclear power plant near the existing nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle, in Waynesboro. Nuke industry testing 'off the shelf' strategy
ATLANTA – Power utilities are trying to buy the next wave of nuclear reactors much like a consumer buys a light bulb: right off the shelf. Of the nation’s 104 commercial reactors, no...
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'Time to turn page'
WASHINGTON – Opposed to the war from the start, President Barack Obama on Tuesday formally ended the U.S. combat role in Iraq as promised, declaring: “It is time to turn the page....
September 01, 2010 12:00 AM | 1 1 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Alabama Gov. Bob Riley, left, North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour listen during a discussion about offshore drilling during the Southern Governors Association meeting in Hoover, Ala., on Monday. Southern governors push for more spill money
HOOVER , Ala. – Alabama’s and Mississippi’s governors got no commitment Monday from Obama administration officials as they pressed for Gulf coast states to get a larger share of...
August 31, 2010 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Savannah port may lose race with Panama Canal
SAVANNAH – The Port of Savannah is falling behind in the race to deepen its busy shipping channel by the end of 2014, when cargo ships too large to navigate the Savannah River are expecte...
September 03, 2010 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
September 02, 2010 01:18 PM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
September 02, 2010 09:28 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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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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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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This image provided by NASA shows Hurricane Earl, lower right, acquired at 1:00 a.m. EDT Wednesday Sept. 1, 2010. At 11 p.m. EDT Tuesday the center of Hurricane Earl was located about 910 miles south-southeast of Wilmington N.C. The Category 4 hurricane was moving northwest at 15 mph with maximum sustained winds of 135 mph. (AP Photo/NASA) Evacuation order expanded in NC
MANTEO , N.C. (AP) — A second North Carolina county has ordered the evacuation of people on an Outer Banks island ahead of Hurricane Earl. Dare County officials on Wednesday morning ordered the e...
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Texas man slits throat in court after sentencing
DALLAS – A suburban Dallas man used a thin blade from a safety razor to slit his throat in an apparent suicide attempt Tuesday in the courtroom where a judge had just sentenced him to 40 y...
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Snake escape prompts zoo inspection
ATLANTA – Georgia wildlife officials plan to inspect an Atlanta zoo after a rattlesnake was able to escape and slither around a city neighborhood, where it was discovered by a 2-year-old b...
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After-school program providing computers to middle-schoolers
COVINGTON , Ky. – Local leaders will revive an after-school program that gives computer access and skills to underprivileged Holmes Middle School students. The Covington chapter of Tubby...
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An Image provided by Nasa shows Hurricane Earl as is passes over the Leeward Islands Monday Aug. 30, 2010. Hurricane Earl, now a powerful Category 4 storm, barrels toward the U.S. coast early Tuesday Aug. 31, 2010 after battering tiny islands across the northeastern Caribbean with heavy rain and winds that damaged homes and toppled power lines. (AP Photo/NASA) FEMA: Evacuations may be required for Earl
RALEIGH , N.C. (AP) — Federal officials say evacuations may be required in the U.S. if Hurricane Earl tracks too close to the East Coast. Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator Craig F...
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