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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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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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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of people living in poverty in U.S. suburbs surpassed the number of poor in cities over the past decade, driven by strong growth in overall suburban populations, according to an analysis released on Monday. The change is posing a challenge to some traditional U.S. approaches to fighting poverty, which were aimed primarily at poverty in urban settings, the Brookings Institution study found. The number of poor people living in suburbs rose 64 percent between 2000 and 2011, reaching 16.4 million, it showed. ...
Mon May 20 12:55:15 UTC 2013
By Chris Francescani (Reuters) - A massive storm front swept north through the central United States on Sunday, hammering the region with fist-sized hail, blinding rain and tornadoes, including a half-mile wide twister that struck near Oklahoma City. News reports said at least one person had died. By 9:30 p.m. Central Standard Time, more than two dozen tornadoes had been spotted in parts of Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas and Illinois, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and local news reports. ...
Mon May 20 11:41:51 UTC 2013
By Richard Weizel and Edith Honan MILFORD, Conn./NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thousands of Connecticut commuters faced delays and crowded trains on Monday as Metro-North workers scrambled to repair damage on the United States' busiest rail line, caused by the collision of two trains. Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy said commuters should expect "serious disruptions" throughout the week and encouraged riders to stay home if possible. ...
Mon May 20 12:42:52 UTC 2013
Less than a week after a string of tornadoes killed six people in north Texas, a massive storm system that tore through the center of the country on Sunday spawned at least a dozen tornadoes, killed at least two people, injured dozens and caused extensive damage from Georgia to Minnesota. A tornado at least a [...]
Mon May 20 09:28:31 UTC 2013
When high school senior Jenny Bonilla got her college acceptance letter in March, she felt shock and heartbreak rather than joy. That’s because the letter from Goucher College, a private liberal arts school in Baltimore, also brought news that she would owe an unaffordable $20,000 a year in tuition and board, even with a scholarship [...]
Mon May 20 05:21:17 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 [...]
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