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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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The Griffin-Spalding Chamber of Commerce and the Pike County Chamber of Commerce are sponsoring a free workshop on May 28 at 11:30 a.m. at the Griffin Welcome Center or North Hill Street. The works...
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The city of Griffin’s paving contractor, “ShepCo,” will be resurfacing the following streets in Griffin over the next 90 days. The city is asking residents to make every effort not to park in the s...
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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 Caren Bohan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The technology industry and organized labor are locked in a fight that threatens to complicate the U.S. Senate's immigration bill. At the heart of the debate is whether there is a shortage of Americans with the math and science skills needed for work at technology firms like Facebook Inc, Google Inc and Microsoft Corp. Labor is brandishing research that says the scarcity of workers is a myth while the tech industry is pointing to other studies that say the shortage is very real and is a threat to U.S. competitiveness. ...
Sat May 18 01:00:57 UTC 2013
By Andy Sullivan and Kim Dixon WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The outgoing head of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service angered Republican lawmakers on Friday by resisting their demands that he identify who at the tax-collection agency had inappropriately targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny. But during the first hearing into a growing IRS scandal that could preoccupy Washington for months, Republicans did learn that a top official in President Barack Obama's administration knew that the IRS was looking into targeting by the tax agency nearly a year ago. ...
Fri May 17 20:54:32 UTC 2013
By Joanne von Alroth SPRINGFIELD, Illinois (Reuters) - The Illinois Senate on Friday voted to approve the use of marijuana for medical purposes, which if signed into law would make it the second-most-populous state in the nation after California to allow the drug's use for medical purposes. The bill, approved by the Illinois House in April, now moves to Governor Pat Quinn's desk to await his signature. Quinn has indicated he is sympathetic to the bill, especially as it would benefit injured veterans. "We fully expect Gov. ...
Fri May 17 16:12:51 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 [...]
Fri May 17 13:28:40 UTC 2013
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