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Forecast: Ga. Economy to boost jobs 1.8 percent, income 2.5 percent
ATLANTA -- Economic recovery is well entrenched in Georgia, but that doesn't mean it isn't being dragged down by external circumstances, according to Georgia State University's quarterly economic f...
May 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Hudgens: Prepare now for hurricane season
Atlanta – National Hurricane Preparedness Week is May 26 through June 1, and Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens wants to remind Georgians that they should check their insurance policies to be sur...
May 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Stocks edge higher as investors watch the Fed
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are opening slightly higher as investors watch for the latest moves from the Federal Reserve. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 39 points at 15,424 shortly after the o...
May 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Several dozen tea party activists and other concerned citizens, wave signs and small American flags as they march outside the main Internal Revenue Service office on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Phoenix. The rally was one of many around the country after IRS officials acknowledged that some conservative groups received inappropriate attention and questioning. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Official: Treasury played no role in IRS targeting
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department's No. 2 official told Congress on Wednesday that his agency played no role in the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups. Deputy Secr...
May 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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FBI: Man fatally shot in Boston bombing probe
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI says a man being questioned by authorities in the Boston bombing probe was fatally shot when he initiated a violent confrontation. The shooting incident early Wednesday t...
May 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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In this Saturday, May 11, 2013 photo, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, a close ally of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaks with journalists, during a press conference after registering his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election, at the election headquarters of the interior ministry, in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Iran's Ahmadinejad denounces election decision
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that a decision by election overseers to disqualify his top aide from next month's presidential race is an act of "oppressio...
May 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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A man carries a drawer and a bag filled with clothes from Rachel Hernandez' home as residents of the Heatherwood Addition, on the south side of SE 4 and Bryant in Moore, Okla., returned to their homes Tuesday, May 21, 2013, to salvage any items after Monday's destructive tornado. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Jim Beckel)
Okla. residents come home to pick up the pieces
MOORE, Okla. (AP) — With her son holding her elbow, Colleen Arvin walked up her driveway to what was left of her house for 40 years. It was the 83-year-old grandmother's first time back at her hom...
May 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Cancer Society hits 100 as US cancer rate falls
NEW YORK — The American Cancer Society - one of the nation's best known and influential health advocacy groups - is 100 years old this week. Back in 1913 when it was formed, cancer was a lesser th...
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Georgia studying Medicaid expansion options
by The Associated Press
May 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
ATLANTA — Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has said the state can't afford to expand its already-strained Medicaid program to include 650,000 more residents, but his administration is studying ways other s...
Oil below $96 before crude stocks report, Fed
by PAMELA SAMPSON, AP Business Writer
May 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
BANGKOK (AP) -- The price of oil fell Wednesday as investors waited for a report on U.S. crude stocks and the Federal Reserve's latest views on the U.S. economy. Benchmark crude for July delivery w...
Investors edgy ahead of Bernanke testimony
by PAN PYLAS, AP Business Writer
May 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
LONDON (AP) — Investors were edgy Wednesday ahead of the appearance of U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke before lawmakers in Congress. Following a run of upbeat U.S. economic news, largel...
Senate debating federal dollars for crop insurance
by MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press
May 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The farm bill the Senate is considering this week would cut some farm subsidies but also expand government-subsidized crop insurance, a safety net used by many farmers in case of...
Solar industry pushes for more use in Ga.
by RAY HENRY, Associated Press
May 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
ATLANTA — The solar industry in Georgia wants to force an electric monopoly to use more renewable energy. Southern Co. subsidiary Georgia Power is presenting its plans for meeting the state's ener...
Southern Baptists prepare to send help to Oklahoma
by The Associated Press
May 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
ALPHARETTA, GA. — Members of the Southern Baptist Convention's disaster relief organization are making plans at their suburban Atlanta offices to send help to the Oklahoma City area after Monday's ...
Indexes edge higher on Wall Street in early trading
by The Associated Press
May 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK (AP) — Stock indexes are edging higher in early trading on Wall Street as investors look ahead to the Federal Reserve's next moves. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 54 points at 15...
China's Xi will meet Obama earlier than expected
by CHRISTOPHER BODEEN, Associated Press
May 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
BEIJING (AP) -- China's new leader Xi Jinping will confer with President Barack Obama next month in California, months earlier than expected, as both sides seek to stem a drift in relations, troubl...
Birth control coverage up for federal appeal

This undated photo provided by Hobby Lobby Stores Inc., shows its co-founders David and Barbara Green who are asking a federal appeals court in Denver on Thursday, May 23, 2013, for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill. The Oklahoma City-based arts-and-crafts chain argues that businesses, and not just religious groups, should be allowed to seek exemptions from that part of the health law if it violates their religious beliefs. (AP Photo/Hobby Lobby)DENVER (AP) — In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is asking a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill.


Thu May 23 03:58:24 UTC 2013
Nixon library hosts 40th reunion for Vietnam POWs

FILE - This March 17, 1973 file photo shows released prisoner of war Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm being greeted by his family at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif., as he returns home from the Vietnam War. In the lead is Stirm's daughter Lori, 15; followed by son Robert, 14; daughter Cynthia, 11; wife Loretta and son Roger, 12. On Thursday, May 24, 2013, some 200 former POWs, almost all of them former pilots, will reunite for a three-day celebration at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Museum in Yorba LInda, Calif., that coincides with the 40th anniversary of a star-studded White House dinner hosted by President Nixon to honor their sacrifice. At the time, Nixon was embroiled in Watergate, but the former prisoners, now in their 60s and 70s, credit him with their freedom and have no qualms about expressing their loyalty for the 37th president. This photo won the Pulitzer Prize for News Photography in 1973. (AP Photo/Sal Veder, File)YORBA LINDA, Calif. (AP) — U.S. Navy Lt. Mike McGrath was just 27 years old, with a wife and two toddler sons in the U.S., when he was shot down and taken prisoner on his 179th bombing mission during the Vietnam War.


Thu May 23 03:54:12 UTC 2013
Bangladesh: Owners' many failings led to collapse

FILE - In this Sunday, May 12, 2013 file photo, Bangladeshi soldiers stand amid the rubble of the garment factory building that collapsed on April 24 as they continue search operation in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. A government investigation said poor quality construction materials and building code violations contributed to the collapse of building housing garment factories last month in Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Ismail Ferdous, File)DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — The defects and errors that led to the world's deadliest garment-industry accident extend from the swampy ground the doomed Rana Plaza was built on, to "extremely poor quality" construction materials, to the massive, vibrating equipment operating when the eight-story building collapsed, a committee appointed by Bangladesh's government concluded.


Thu May 23 03:54:02 UTC 2013