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The City of Griffin approved almost a quarter million dollars for the Griffin-Spalding Airport this fiscal year.
The $225,600 in for the airport’s operating budget is to buy more fuel. Airport Di...
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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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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.
“It was more of a co...
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 R.J. Young MOORE, Oklahoma (Reuters) - A massive tornado tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, killing at least 51 people as winds of up to 200 miles per hour flattened entire tracts of homes, two schools and a hospital, leaving a wake of tangled wreckage. Rescue workers raced against the setting sun to find survivors in Oklahoma as the dangerous storm system threatened as many as 10 U.S. states with more twisters. The Oklahoma medical examiner confirmed 51 deaths. ...
Mon May 20 21:27:36 UTC 2013
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Monday appointed a special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism as a new State Department report warned about incidents in Venezuela, Egypt and Iran. Secretary of State John Kerry named Ira Forman, a long time director of the National Jewish Democratic Council, as special envoy citing a "troubling trend" of anti-Semitism around the world. Forman succeeds Hannah Rosenthal, who stepped down last year. The 2012 report on religious freedom said an increase worldwide in anti-Semitism was "of great concern. ...
Mon May 20 18:26:36 UTC 2013
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - High-tech systems for tracking the movements of immigrants and other foreigners when leaving the United States would be installed at major U.S. airports under a plan approved by a congressional panel on Monday. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 13-5 for an amendment to a wide-ranging immigration bill that would require the installation of devices to check immigrants' fingerprints at the 10 busiest U.S. airports within two years of enactment of the legislation. ...
Mon May 20 20:51:24 UTC 2013
A devastating, mile-wide tornado touched down near Oklahoma City on Monday, killing at least 51 people and decimating homes, businesses and a pair of elementary schools in the suburb of Moore. According to the state's medical examiner, the death toll was expected to rise. The schools—Plaza Towers Elementary and Briarwood Elementary—were leveled by the tornado. [...]
Mon May 20 20:53:06 UTC 2013
A massive tornado about a mile wide tore through Oklahoma, flattening homes and schools and causing widespread destruction in the Oklahoma City area. Videos of the twister show a giant funnel cloud pounding across the landscape. This video captures the tornado grinding through Newcastle before it hit Moore, Okla. "Oh my god, that thing is [...]
Mon May 20 20:53:02 UTC 2013
Saddled with student loan debt, many college graduates stare at their statements and see eye-popping dollar figures. To wit: Carin Kilby Clark owes $140,000 for a bachelor’s degree and an MBA from Strayer University. She’s now studying for a master’s degree in project management from Walden University, in addition working full time as a U.S. [...]
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