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Cagle launches 'healthy kids' initiative
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Last Updated: 1:13 PM 08/25/10 - ATLANTA — Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle has launched a ‘‘healthy kids’’ challenge aimed at curbing obesity and encouraging physical activity among Georgia’s school-age children. Cagle, a Republican seeking re-election to a second term, visited an Atlanta elementary school Wednesday to promote the program. (Full Story) |
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Georgia Aquarium officially honored as world's largest
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Last Updated: 6:59 AM 08/23/10 - ATLANTA — It's official: The Georgia Aquarium is the world's largest fish tank. Alistair Richards with Guinness World Record in London, visited the downtown Atlanta attraction Sunday and presented aquarium President David Kimmel with a certificate naming it the world's largest aquarium. (Full Story) |
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Georgia officer charged with protecting drug deals
Last Updated: 3:18 PM 08/18/10 - ATLANTA — A 27-year-old Clayton County police officer has been charged with accepting bribes to protect drug deals and swiping guns and money from drivers he stopped for routine traffic violations. (Full Story) |
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Handel concedes race for Georgia governor
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Last Updated: 8:30 AM 08/11/10 - ATLANTA — Former Secretary of State Karen Handel has conceded the race for the Republican nomination for governor, throwing her support behind former U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal. (Full Story) |
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Olens, Sinkfield win runoffs for statewide posts
Last Updated: 9:26 PM 08/10/10 - Former Cobb County Commission chair Sam Olens handily defeated his Republican rival Tuesday to win the Republican Party’s nod in the race to fill the state attorney general’s seat, which is open for the first time in decades. (Full Story) |
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Handel, Deal play nicer in final GOP gov. debate
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Last Updated: 6:36 AM 08/09/10 - ATLANTA — Karen Handel said Sunday night she would endorse Nathan Deal — the man she has blasted as "a corrupt relic of Washington" — if he won the Republican nomination for governor. (Full Story) |
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Atlanta to lose 1 Sprint Cup date next year
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Last Updated: 11:29 AM 08/05/10 - ATLANTA — Atlanta Motor Speedway will host just one NASCAR Sprint Cup race in 2011. The track announced Thursday it will hold a 500-mile Cup race at the track on Labor Day weekend next year. It marks the first time since the track opened in 1960 that it will not host two Cup events in a season. (Full Story) |
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Man gets 8 years for molestation
Last Updated: 2:24 PM 08/21/10 - COLUMBUS — A Muscogee County court has sentenced a man to eight years in prison on charges he spent nearly a decade molesting a Columbus girl. (Full Story) |
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Deal, Handel split on federal education money
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Last Updated: 10:56 AM 08/03/10 - ATLANTA — Republican gubernatorial candidate Nathan Deal says he would reject federal "Race to the Top" money for schools because it would force the state to adhere to national education standards. His GOP runoff rival, Karen Handel, said she wouldn't turn up her nose at the money. (Full Story) |
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We're No. 1! UGA tops party schools ranking
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Last Updated: 10:35 AM 08/02/10 - ATLANTA — The University of Georgia has won a national title this year — top party school. (Full Story) |
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