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Georgia land conservation to get $5.5 million

AP News 5 days ago

Federal funding bill contains $5.5 million for Georgia land conservation Georgia land conservation projects will receive $5.5 million from a massive federal funding bill. The Department of Interior Appropriations bill also provides $200,000 to Morehouse College to preserve the papers of Martin ...

"The Twilight Saga: New Moon" Mall Tour - Atlanta

Getty Images 8 days ago

ATLANTA - NOVEMBER 12: Edi Gathegi and Jamie Campbell Bower promotes "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" at the Mall of Georgia on November 12, 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images) Copyright 2009 Getty Images

TVA bills to decrease in December

AP News 8 days ago

TVA bills to decrease $3 to $6 monthly in December under fuel cost adjustment Tennessee Valley Authority bills will decrease $3 to $6 monthly beginning Dec. 1 under the utility's wholesale fuel cost adjustment. TVA said in a news release Thursday the ...

Salmonella victims upset no prosecutions yet

AP News 15 days ago

Salmonella outbreak victims upset by lack of prosecution in what lawyers call cut-and-dry case At the height of the nationwide salmonella outbreak nearly a year ago, FBI agents raided two peanut plants and carried away boxes of evidence. FDA inspectors found roaches, ...

MR. CLEANUP

BusinessWeek 16 days ago

MR. CLEANUP Georgia's financial crisis is making accidental heroes out of people like Jim Edwards. The 44-year-old Edwards is CEO of United Bank, a small, family-controlled outfit based in Griffin, about an hour's drive south of Atlanta. Late last year he began ...

Children direct certified for school lunches

AP News 19 days ago

Children direct certified for school lunches The following is the percent of school-aged children from households receiving food stamps who were directly certified for free or reduced priced lunches by schools in 2008-2009. Percentages above 100 percent are possible because some school ...

Georgia's child custody employment program expands

AP News 19 days ago

Georgia officials expand child custody leniency program as more parents lose jobs Already a father of two in 2006, Martez Fitzpatrick figured supporting a third child wouldn't much strain his budget. Then the little girl's mother, a woman with whom he had ...

Stimulus saved, created 16,000 Ga. education jobs

AP News 19 days ago

Report: Georgia saved, created 16,000 education jobs thanks to federal stimulus funding A new federal report shows that more than 16,000 Georgia education jobs were saved or created through stimulus funding. According to a report released Monday by the U.S. Department of ...

Green groups appeal Ga. nuclear plant expansion

AP News 22 days ago

Environmental groups ask federal courts to block Georgia nuclear plant expansion Environmental groups are asking the federal courts to block to plans to build two nuclear reactors at an east Georgia power plant. The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy said Thursday it ...

US Gross Domestic Product Increases 3.5 Percent In Third Quarter

Getty Images 23 days ago

SAVANNAH, GEORGIA - OCTOBER 29: Shipping containers are stacked high at the Georgia Ports Authority Garden City Terminal October 29, 2009 in Savannah, Georgia. The U.S. economy grew 3.5 percent in the third quarter of 2009, the fastest pace in two years. ...

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