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With 19 graduates, or maybe more depending on test scores, Griffin-Spalding County School Superintendent Curtis Jones said, “This was the best year at A.Z. Kelsey Academy.”
Jones thanked the stude...
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The Griffin-Spalding Development Authority helping Norcom expand its Griffin operation with a $10 million bond issuance.
Norcom President Hal Rahn said the Development Authority “continues to supp...
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Spalding County is considering a property tax increase to balance the budget and avoid employee furloughs or salary cuts.
A millage rate increase is one of the possibilities the county is consider...
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The Griffin Christian Lady Crusaders volleyball team was the 2012 GISA Class AA state runners-up, finishing 28-3 overall. (File photo courtesy of Hope Hammond)
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The 2012-13 local high school sports season was one of tremendous achievement for many of the teams. It was also a season of firsts for Griffin and Spalding high schools as both schools resided in ...
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(Reuters) - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called sexual assault a "scourge" on Saturday as he addressed graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where a sergeant stands accused of videotaping female cadets in the showers. "Sexual harassment and sexual assault in the military are a profound betrayal - a profound betrayal - of sacred oaths and sacred trusts," Hagel said. "This scourge must be stamped out." His comments came a day after President Barack Obama delivered a similar message to graduates at the U.S. ...
Sat May 25 10:32:33 UTC 2013
By Malia Mattoch McManus HONOLULU (Reuters) - The city of Detroit may be facing a deepening financial crisis but that hasn't stopped four trustees of its public pension funds from spending $22,000 of retirement system funds to attend a conference in Hawaii this week. The trip 4,500 miles west to a four-star resort on the world-famous Waikiki Beach in Honolulu doesn't sit well with the top officials now running Detroit's finances under an emergency order from the state of Michigan. ...
Sat May 25 08:08:06 UTC 2013
(Reuters) - Two freight trains collided at a rail intersection in Missouri on Saturday, triggering the collapse of a highway overpass when several rail cars derailed and struck a support pillar, a county sheriff's dispatcher said. Seven people were hurt, including five in cars on the two-lane overpass near southeastern Missouri town of Chaffee and the conductors of the two trains, Scott County Sheriff's dispatcher Clay Slipis said. ...
Sat May 25 10:48:35 UTC 2013
From William Ray Fullmer: "My nephew, Sgt. Derek Tillman Roberts, spilled his blood on the sands of Iraq to extend the right to live free to the people of the Middle East. On June 14, 2007, Derek was killed by a roadside bomb in Kirkuk, placed by those too cowardly to face him on the [...]
Fri May 24 14:55:25 UTC 2013
Storm chasers from an outfit called Fast Unit 70 uploaded raw footage of the first 10 minutes of the Moore, Okla., tornado that gives viewers a harrowing sense of what the EF5 twister looked like. Watch that footage here. As cars and trucks zoom past, Chance Coldiron and Justin Cox's camera focuses on the dark [...]
Fri May 24 13:30:06 UTC 2013
The DIY 3-D gun may not be quite ready for prime time. According to Techworld, the police commissioner in Australia’s New South Wales, Andrew Scipione, has issued a warning after his officers tested one of the firearms—dubbed the "Liberator"—and experienced a “catastrophic misfire” (no one was seriously injured). According to the website, the NSW police [...]
Fri May 24 11:48:51 UTC 2013
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