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Georgia mascot Uga VII dies
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Last Updated: 4:42 PM 11/19/09 - ATLANTA — Uga VII, the white English bulldog mascot for the University of Georgia’s football team for almost two seasons, died Thursday of heart-related causes, the dog’s owner said. (Full Story) |
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Leaders declare court ‘emergency’
Last Updated: 6:27 PM 11/18/09 - ATLANTA — Georgia’s biggest court system warned Wednesday that a 2010 Fulton County proposal that cuts $53 million from the judicial budget could force them to shut down the courthouse, jeopardize death penalty cases and slash as many as 1,000 jobs. (Full Story) |
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Sony Ericsson closes NC, other sites as HQ moves to Atlanta
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Last Updated: 11:54 AM 11/18/09 - RALEIGH, N.C. — Cell phone handset maker Sony Ericsson will move its North American headquarters from North Carolina to Atlanta and close a half-dozen sites worldwide as it retrenches against what it expects will be a tighter market and cuts about 1,600 jobs globally. (Full Story) |
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Fake cab robberies reported in Athens
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Last Updated: 6:52 PM 11/17/09 - ATHENS — There’s been another instance of a passenger being lured into a fake taxicab in Athens, and police said the bogus cabbie may be using the same sign as a man they arrested last month. (Full Story) |
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Military food supplier charged with fraud
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Last Updated: 7:09 PM 11/16/09 - ATLANTA — The chief food supplier for the U.S. military in Kuwait and Iraq inflated prices and defrauded the U.S. government for multibillion-dollar contracts to feed American troops, federal prosecutors said Monday. (Full Story) |
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911 call details Richardson’s suicide attempt
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Last Updated: 7:03 PM 11/16/09 - ATLANTA — House Speaker Glenn Richardson took sleeping pills in a failed attempt to kill himself and then called his mother to tell her he loved her, according to a recording of the 911 call released on Monday. It was his mother, Merty Richardson, who called 911 on the evening of Nov. 8. A recording of the 911 call was released by the Paulding County Sheriff’s Department on Monday in response to an open records request. (Full Story) |
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STATE IN BRIEF: Atlanta wins lawsuit over airport ads
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Last Updated: 7:02 PM 11/16/09 - ATLANTA — A federal appeals panel has ruled in favor of the city of Atlanta in a dispute over an airport advertising contract. The case was brought by a millionaire who contends the city awarded the lucrative contract to the ‘‘political elite.’’ (Full Story) |
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Clayton teacher accused of threatening gay student
Last Updated: 7:02 PM 11/16/09 - JONESBORO — Clayton County Schools officials are investigating claims that a special education teacher threatened a student. (Full Story) |
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Police: 11 shot, 1 killed in Valdosta
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Last Updated: 9:51 AM 11/16/09 - VALDOSTA — Police say they are interviewing what they describe as "persons of interest" in an outbreak of shooting at a Valdosta apartment complex that killed one person and left 10 others wounded. (Full Story) |
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Nation's largest gay newspaper publisher closes
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Last Updated: 9:54 AM 11/16/09 - ATLANTA — The nation's largest publisher of newspapers serving the gay and lesbian community has shut down. Laura Douglas-Brown, editor of Southern Voice newspaper in Atlanta, said she arrived at work Monday to find the locks changed and a note saying parent company Window Media LLC had closed down. (Full Story) |
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