Fri Jul 9, 2010 5:44 PM EDT
A minister in Georgia is challenging the state's ban on guns in churches after the U.S. Supreme Court recently issued a decision supporting Americans' right to keep and bear arms.
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Tue May 11, 2010 6:45 PM EDT
Two gospel singers are facing multiple charges after authorities say they played uplifting music for several Georgia churches, then stole some $100,000 worth of speakers, microphones and other musical equipment.
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Thu Apr 1, 2010 5:01 PM EDT
Dr. Henry Edward Roberts, a developer of an early personal computer that inspired Bill Gates to found Microsoft, died Thursday in Georgia. He was 68.
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Thu Mar 4, 2010 12:32 PM EST
Long before the nation obsessed over the sleeves of its black first lady, Eunice Johnson was shining a spotlight on black beauty and style.
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Fri Feb 19, 2010 3:14 PM EST
Desperate though they are to fill gaps in their budgets, more than half the states in the country haven't touched a $5 billion pot of federal stimulus funds meant to find work for welfare recipients.
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Fri Jan 15, 2010 2:36 PM EST
The Georgia Department of Labor reported Friday that more than 100,000 laid-off workers filed initial claims for unemployment insurance benefits in December, an increase of nearly 40 percent over the previous month.
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Wed Jan 13, 2010 11:40 AM EST
Jeiel Ballard and his girlfriend, both 16, are dressed up in their best attire, ready for a night of dancing and fun.
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Mon Dec 28, 2009 2:46 PM EST
Ann Nixon Cooper was remembered Monday as a charismatic woman who, after toiling through the civil rights era, lived to see herself hailed in an election night speech by the nation's first black president.
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Tue Dec 22, 2009 1:53 PM EST
A multiethnic coalition of Georgia pastors and community leaders summoned the Biblical image of Joseph and Mary to urge minority residents Tuesday to participate in the 2010 Census or risk forfeiting federal aid to states based on population.
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Thu Dec 17, 2009 3:53 PM EST
Georgia must use $70 million in federal loans to sustain the state's dwindling unemployment insurance trust fund or it will be without money by next week to pay benefits to more than 260,000 unemployed state workers, state labor officials say.
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Tue Dec 15, 2009 5:20 PM EST
Economic forecasters on Tuesday predicted the good, the bad and the ugly: Georgia has weathered the worst of its job losses, but a worsening commercial real estate market will help keep the state's recovery lagging behind the nation's well into 2011.
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Mon Nov 9, 2009 11:02 AM EST
Comedian and rapper Katt Williams was released on bond Monday after police said they arrested the entertainer for breaking into a home and stealing thousands of dollars worth of jewelry and coins.
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Mon Nov 2, 2009 2:36 PM EST
Already a father of two in 2006, Martez Fitzpatrick figured supporting a third child wouldn't much strain his budget.
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Mon Oct 19, 2009 2:07 PM EDT
The Georgia Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday against the mistress of a millionaire, saying she is not entitled to receive $7,900 a month for the rest of her life as provided under amendments to his will.
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Mon Oct 12, 2009 4:07 AM EDT
Nearly two decades after he arrived in this country, Ugandan Derreck Kayongo is still bowled over by one subtle display of American wealth: the endless array of soaps available in stores.
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Sun Oct 4, 2009 12:00 AM EDT
Along the quiet banks of Lake Russell, where bees buzz and grass blows lazily in the wind, Elbert County's top development official envisioned a resort that would bring vacationers' dollars to the declining granite quarrying hub.
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Mon Sep 14, 2009 5:35 AM EDT
Recent student suicides have parents and advocates complaining that anti-bullying laws enacted in nearly every state are not being enforced and do not go far enough to identify and rid schools of chronic tormentors.
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Wed Jul 29, 2009 11:59 AM EDT
Ordained a United Methodist minister, the Rev. Chester Cook has now become a jack of all faiths.
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Mon Jul 27, 2009 4:14 PM EDT
The nation's bulldozer attack on crime and poverty will soon make Atlanta — home of the first public housing development — the first major city to eliminate all of its large housing projects.
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Thu Jul 23, 2009 2:33 PM EDT
A federal minimum wage increase that takes effect Friday could prolong the recession, some economists say, by forcing small businesses to lay off the same workers that the pay hike passed in better times was meant to help.
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Wed Apr 15, 2009 4:33 PM EDT
The hip-hop world is a less bling-bling place these days.
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Fri Apr 3, 2009 7:09 AM EDT
Twelve years heading the Salvation Army's downtown homeless shelter had done little to prepare Janeane Schmidt for the recent night when a soft-spoken biological male transitioning into a female walked in.
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Fri Mar 27, 2009 6:05 PM EDT
Six months after Atlanta business leaders set up parking meter-like machines to accept spare change donations and discourage panhandling, just $500 has been deposited — not much help for beggars who say they can sometimes raise $300 in a day on their own.
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Mon Mar 16, 2009 4:28 PM EDT
Life has taken Roger Gleen up and down the East Coast, and on this night the weary traveler settles into a chair in the corner of the world's busiest airport.
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Fri Mar 6, 2009 3:31 AM EST
For more than a decade, Angel Food Ministries seemed like a godsend for families who purchased its low-cost food boxes and the churches that shared millions in revenue for distributing the goods.
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