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The Griffin Police Department has earned national and international certification.
At last Tuesday’s meeting the city commissioners recognized the department and certification manager Eddie Bogan ...
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The City of Griffin voted to name the city pool complex after Zenobia Hood Kinnebrew.
Kinnebrew, or “Brew” as she was called worked at the city pool for more than 20 years, after retiring as a tea...
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Spalding County Parks & Recreation announced Thursday that renovations of the Fairmont Community Center are now completed and the center will reopen today.
The Fairmont Community Center has been c...
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Silver Team quarterback Monquez Sullivan (10) avoids a diving Greg Thaggard (46) on Saturday morning during Spalding High's annual Navy and Silver spring scrimmage at SHS.
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Despite early morning rain, the Spalding High football team held its annual Navy and Silver spring scrimmage Saturday in front of a few hundred fans at the SHS practice field.
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Malik Miller (10) and Montavious Brown (21)
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Griffin Lady Bears soccer player Abby Passmore kicked a field goal and an extra point and quarterback Jaquez Parks scored a rushing touchdown to give the Green team a 10-7 victory over the Gold tea...
Spalding High defensive coordinator Grant Myers gives instructions to rising sophomore lineman Brodarious Hamm during spring practice. (Jeff Armstrong/Daily News)
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The Spalding High football team’s defense was rolling right along in 2012 until injuries to defenders Jevaris Jones, Jake Jeffcoat and a few others hurt that side of the ball, causing the Jaguars t...
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By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - A single winning ticket for a record Powerball lottery jackpot worth $590.5 million was sold in Florida, organizers said late on Saturday, but there was no immediate word about who won one of the largest jackpots in U.S. history. The winning numbers from Saturday night's drawing were: 10, 13, 14, 22 and 52, with a Powerball number of 11. The odds of winning were put at 1 in 175 million. The winning ticket was sold at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, a suburb of Tampa, according to the Florida Lottery. ...
Sun May 19 12:23:19 UTC 2013
By Hilary Russ (Reuters) - In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's cash-hungry capital city, local political battles are waged much as they are across the United States: with big personalities and bare-knuckled verbal brawls. But unlike most cities, Harrisburg's financial troubles have thrust it into the national spotlight, most recently with a slap from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for fraud. Financing for a single incinerator has been driving the city toward insolvency since 2009. The $3.7 trillion U.S. ...
Sun May 19 10:30:28 UTC 2013
By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - A 21-year-old university student who was taken hostage in her apartment and then shot to death during a police standoff with an armed robber on New York's Long Island was killed by a bullet fired from an officer's gun, investigators said on Sunday. Andrea Rebello was shot in the head on Friday by one of eight rounds fired at Dalton Smith, who had the woman in a headlock with a 9mm gun pointed at her head at the time, Nassau County Police Department spokesman James Imperiale said. ...
Sun May 19 16:16:16 UTC 2013
A series of 16 violent tornadoes ransacked north Texas this week, killing six people and flattening entire neighborhoods. Seven people who were reported missing early Friday morning have now been accounted for, but the storms aren't over yet. Severe thunderstorms are expected late Friday in Alabama and Mississippi, and the Plains and the Midwest face [...]
Fri May 17 20:53:22 UTC 2013
Harrowing dash-cam footage shows officer Steve Nunez of the New Mexico State Police and some good Samaritans lifting an overturned SUV off of a little girl last week. Nunez spoke with KOAT.com about the incident. "It's always hard to see anybody in that situation, but especially children," he said. "And daddy mode kicked in." Nunez [...]
Fri May 17 14:26:18 UTC 2013
Aimee Copeland, the woman who lost her hands, one leg and her other foot to flesh-eating bacteria after a zip-line accident last year, spoke with WXIA.com and "Today" about her new bionic hands, which are helping her return to a normal life. Copeland, 24, is in the process of learning to use two state-of-the art [...]
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