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4 Americans reported killed in drone strikes by U.S. since 2009
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen since 2009. The disclosure to Con...
May 23, 2013 12:32 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Ga. Rep. Brooks pleads not guilty to fraud charges; Barnes on case pro bono
Georgia state Rep. Tyrone Brooks on Wednesday pleaded not guilty to federal charges of mail fraud, wire fraud and filing false tax returns.
May 23, 2013 12:26 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Deal: Georgia studying Medicaid expansion
ATLANTA — Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has said the state can’t afford to expand its already-strained Medicaid program to include 650,000 more residents, but his administration is studying ways other s...
May 23, 2013 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Georgia News Roundup
Today's stories include - Baby in car stolen from daycare is found safe - 2 children bitten by fox at Newton County elementary school - Groups pledge $10.5M to Atlanta freeway project - Southern Co...
May 22, 2013 03:55 PM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Pallbearers carry Andrea Rebello's coffin into St. Teresa of Avila Church for her funeral service, Wednesday, May 22, 2013 in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. Police said Rebello, a junior at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., who was accidentally shot by police Friday, May 17, 2013, during a break-in near the college campus. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
New York funeral for student accidentally shot by police
UPDATE: The funeral for Andrea Rebello on Wednesday included a ceremony known as the four candles, and for the lighting of the third candle, Rebello's friends were summoned to take part. So 40 or m...
May 22, 2013 02:40 PM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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IRS official Lois Lerner is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 22, 2013, before the House Oversight Committee hearing to investigate the extra scrutiny IRS gave to Tea Party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
IRS official Lerner: 'I did nothing wrong'
In one of the most electric moments since the IRS controversy erupted nearly two weeks ago, Lois Lerner defended herself during a brief appearance before the House Oversight and Government Reform C...
May 22, 2013 02:30 PM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Coalition for Life of Iowa president Sue Martinek holds a sign in her home, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. When the Coalition applied for tax-exempt status in 2008, the tiny group thought getting IRS approval would be easy. But the group faced months of delay, was ordered to provide details about its prayer events outside the local Planned Parenthood clinic, and even directed to sign a sworn statement pledging it would not organize protests there. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
GOP questions IRS scrutiny of anti-abortion groups
The IRS apologized for singling out tea party groups for scrutiny in 2010 and 2011, but Republicans now are seizing on the coalition's case to question whether the effort may have been broader and ...
May 22, 2013 08:30 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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In this Tuesday Jan. 31, 2006 file photo, Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, gestures as he practices the Democratic response to the State of the Union in the Governor's Mansion at the Capitol in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)
Under scrutiny, Virginia gov's mansion a dichotomy
An embezzling case that began with a chef being accused of stealing food from Virginia's Executive Mansion and morphed into a political scandal involving two of the state's most powerful politician...
May 22, 2013 05:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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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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  • Troops flood western Mexico to protect towns
    by Mark Stevenson, Associated Press
    05.21.13 - 03:45 pm
  • Power of Moore tornado dwarfs Hiroshima bomb
    by Seth Borenstein, AP Science Writer
    05.21.13 - 02:45 pm
  • Utah man, brother suspects in wife's disappearance
    by Gene Johnson, Associated Press and Paul Foy, Associated Press
    05.21.13 - 10:50 am
  • Several mull challenges to state’s last white Democrat congressman
    by Russ Bynum, Associated Press
    05.21.13 - 12:09 am
  • More aides knew of IRS audit, but Obama not told
    by The Associated Press
    05.21.13 - 12:09 am
  • Georgia News Roundup
    05.20.13 - 03:25 pm
  • Oklahoma, other tornado-hit states brace for more
    by Sean Murphy, Associated Press
    05.20.13 - 12:50 pm
  • US gas prices up 11 cents over past 2 weeks
    by Associated Press Wire
    05.20.13 - 10:46 am
  • Split-second choice ended with NY student dead
    by Verena Dobnik, Associated Press
    05.20.13 - 10:10 am
  • Iran says producing new air defense missile
    by Associated Press Wire
    05.20.13 - 06:00 am
    • Convicted killer Jodi Arias pauses for a moment during an interview at the Maricopa County Estrella Jail on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Phoenix. Arias was convicted recently of killing her former boyfriend Travis Alexander in his suburban Phoenix home back in 2008, made a plea in court Tuesday for life in prison, instead of execution, saying she can contribute to society if allowed to live. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
    Arias jury deadlocked but must keep deliberating
    UPDATE: Jurors in the Jodi Arias murder trial told the judge Wednesday they are unable to reach a unanimous verdict on whether the convicted murderer should be sentenced to life in prison or death ...
    May 22, 2013 04:10 PM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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    CDC chases cause of mystery illness in Southeast Alabama
    Doctors throughout Alabama have gotten notices from the State Department of Health about the unidentified respiratory illness that has killed two and hospitalized five more.
    May 22, 2013 04:02 PM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Jeff Thayer, right, and his son Heath look at a tornado-ravaged pickup truck belonging to another son Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
    Oklahoma tornado damage could top $2 billion
    Oklahoma Insurance Department spokeswoman Calley Herth told The Associated Press that the early monetary damage tally is based on visual assessments of the extensive disaster zone that stretches mo...
    May 22, 2013 03:55 PM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Police close the road on Artillery Place, Woolwich southeast London near the scene where British officials said one person has died and at least two people have been wounded in an attack on Wednesday May 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Nick Ansell/PA)
    Cameron: 'Indications' London attack terror
    Two men reportedly attacked another man. Witnesses said the two men were shot by police and a number of weapons — including butchers' knives — could be seen on the street, which was splattered by b...
    May 22, 2013 03:42 PM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Pentagon to seek new vets record system
    The Pentagon has decided to buy a new computerized health records system to be able to better share and merge its data with the Department of Veterans Affairs, but officials cautioned that it was p...
    May 22, 2013 03:00 PM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Police officers block the entrance to an apartment complex where man was fatally shot, Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Orlando, Fla. The FBI says the man, being questioned by authorities in the Boston bombing probe, was fatally shot when he initiated a violent confrontation. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
    Man shot to death while questioned in Boston probe
    UPDATE: A Chechen immigrant was shot to death by authorities while being questioned in the Boston Marathon bombing investigation early Wednesday after he lunged at an FBI agent with a knife.
    May 22, 2013 02:30 PM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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    In this Feb. 4, 2013 file photo, James Oliver, left, hugs his brother and fellow Eagle Scout, Will Oliver, who is gay, as Will and other supporters carry four boxes filled with petitions to end the ban on gay scouts and leaders in front of the Boy Scouts of America headquarters in Dallas, Texas. With its ranks deeply divided, the Boy Scouts of America is asking its local leaders from across the country to decide whether its contentious membership policy should be overhauled so that openly gay boys can participate in Scout units. The proposal to be put before the roughly 1,400 voting members of the BSA's National Council on Thursday, May 23, 2013 at a meeting in Grapevine, Texas, would retain the Scouts' long-standing ban on gays serving in adult leadership positions. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)
    Boy Scout leaders to vote on lifting gay ban
    The Boy Scouts of America will convene a two-day meeting of 1,400 local leaders to consider changing its long-standing ban on openly gay boys in the scouting movement.
    May 22, 2013 02:15 PM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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    In this image made from video, Amy Sharp, right, hugs daughter Jenna Dunn, 10, a day after she picked up her children from Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., which was leveled by a tornado packing winds of up to 200 mph. on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla. (AP Photo/P. Solomon Banda)
    Parents face tough choice when tornadoes bear down
    Parents had a gut-wrenching choice, and only a few minutes to make it, when the Moore Public School District flashed a text alert to parents about the ominous storm approaching.
    May 22, 2013 10:50 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Amid immigration reform, calls to change asylums
    As Congress debates legalizing about 11 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, immigration advocates are pushing plans they say will open the asylum process for thousands of more people w...
    May 22, 2013 05:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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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 | 9 9 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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  • Georgia News Roundup
    05.21.13 - 04:30 pm
  • Oklahoma twister search, rescue almost finished
    by Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press and Sean Murphy, Associated Press
    05.21.13 - 03:45 pm
  • With high-tech guns, users could disable remotely
    by Martha Mendoza, AP National Writer
    05.21.13 - 03:00 pm
  • Medical examiner's office revises death toll from Oklahoma tornado to at least 24
    05.21.13 - 09:43 am
  • Atheists donate books to parks
    by Jeff Martin, Associated Press
    05.21.13 - 12:11 am
  • Senators OK fingerprinting at airports for foreigners
    by The Associated Press
    05.21.13 - 12:07 am
  • State announces plan to assess oil, gas at refuge
    by Becky Bohrer, Associated Press
    05.20.13 - 11:45 am
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