Educators preparing to retire 05/18/2008
COBB COUNTY - Together, they've spent more than 5,000 years in public education: lecturing, grading homework, correcting essays, tying shoelaces, wiping runny noses. Now, it's time to hang it up.
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Georgia delegates rally for McCain 05/18/2008
COLUMBUS - Georgia Republicans united behind likely GOP presidential nominee John McCain and fired up their faithful members at the party's annual convention Saturday.
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Laura Armstrong: All can partake in tribute to Forces 05/18/2008
As I write, it's Armed Forces Day, a gorgeous Saturday in May. But remembrances and reunions aplenty herald the upcoming Memorial Day holiday.
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Laws expand charter school options 05/18/2008
Georgia passed its first law allowing charter schools more than a decade ago, touting the schools as an innovative technique that would revive the state's failing public education system.
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Shooter sentenced to 40 years in prison 05/17/2008
MARIETTA - By all accounts, Steven Merritt was a good young man with plenty of friends and an opportunity to further his future on the football field after graduating from Marietta High School in 2004.
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Democrats in the South make ‘noise’ 05/17/2008
The political fortunes of Democrats down South once were so bad that people openly joked even Jesus Christ would lose by a double-digit margin if he ran for office on the party's ticket.
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Jury fails to reach decision in 92-year-old’s slaying 05/17/2008
ATLANTA - A jury deliberated Friday without deciding the fate of an Atlanta police officer accused of helping cover up a botched drug raid in which a 92-year-old woman was killed in her home.
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Chambliss: Bush farm veto would hurt Sen. McCain 05/17/2008
COLUMBUS - U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss said he's warned President Bush that vetoing the farm bill could hurt presumptive GOP nominee John McCain in reliably Republican states this fall.
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Resignation spurs fast action 05/16/2008
MARIETTA - A special election to fill the school board seat of Dr. Teresa Plenge will have to be conducted on Sept. 16, Sharon Dunn, director of the Cobb Board of Elections, said Thursday. That's the same date voters will decide on a SPLOST III.
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Historic Board appoints members 05/16/2008
MARIETTA - The Marietta City Council, in a vote of no confidence Monday, dumped members of the Downtown Marietta Development Authority's Historic Board of Review.
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