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House to unveil Tom Murphy portrait
Tom Murphy by placing his portrait in the state Capitol.Murphy, a Democrat, was the longest-serving state House speaker in the nation when voters in his west

'PostSecret' exhibit comes to Kennesaw State U
Frank Warren has received more than 350,000 postcards since then.He has produced at least five books full of the messages and regularly updates PostSecret.com with new postcards and e-mails.The exhibi...

Ga. woman sentenced in FEMA fraud case
Hurricane Katrina .Markisha Burks of McDonough was sentenced Tuesday on charges of making a false statement to a governmental agency, mail fraud and wire fraud. She also must pay more than $11,000 in ...

Archery Equipment Company Partners with Atlanta SEO Company
The partnership between the two firms allows Stick'em Archery to further its search engine optimization potential, thus allowing Cardinal Web Solutions to expand its services to larger clients.

Premier Atlanta Home Remodeling Firm Selects Preferred Interior Design Studio
Kevin Buckley Builders, an Atlanta home remodeling and building firm, announces the selection of Ryan Morgan, co-owner of Maison Design Studio, as their preferred designer.

Archery Equipment Company Partners with Atlanta SEO Company
The partnership between the two firms allows Stick'em Archery to further its search engine optimization potential, thus allowing Cardinal Web Solutions to expand its services to larger clients.LILBURN...

Firefighters Hot About Plans To Cut Pensions
ATLANTA -- Atlanta firefighters are fired up about what they say are plans to cut their pension. Dozens of firefighters protested outside a luncheon held by the Fulton County Taxpayers Foundation on ...

Respect Roethlisberger accuser's privacy
Milledgeville , Ga. Roethlisberger has not been charged."Their daughter has done the right thing and reported this matter to the police," reads the statement released by the attorneys' Atlanta law fir...

Murdered Hiker's Family Challenges Hustler's Request
ATLANTA -- One day after the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced it would not release grisly crime scene photos of murdered Georgia hiker Meredith Emerson, her family is taking action. An attor...

Wilson, Ellis lead Predators past Thrashers
Chris Thorburn , whose apparent tying goal was disallowed after officials ruled he interfered with Ellis in the crease. "But these last three games ..."Nashville snapped a two-game losing streak and s...

7-year-old Girl Attacked By Dogs Tuesday
DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. -- Police said a 7-year-old girl was attacked by two dogs in Lithonia late Tuesday afternoon. She is at the hospital in extremely critical condition. DeKalb Police responded to the...

Jurrjens cleared for Spring Training takeoff
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- When Jair Jurrjens learned that he was dealing with inflammation around his right shoulder, the Braves reacted by saying they fully expected that he would be ready by the sta...

Ga. Tech's Radakovich withholding review on Hewitt
(AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)FILE - In this Saturday, Jan. 9, 2010 file photo, Georgia Tech head coach Paul Hewitt yells to his players during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game agains...

Greece Added to U.S. Visa Waiver Program
announced Tuesday. Greece joins 35 other nations that are part of the U.S. Visa Waiver Program. In order to qualify, nations must meet strict security standards such as sharing information and data wi...

Ga. Soldiers Come Home to Hugs and Tears
CANTON, Ga-- Hundreds of Georgia soldiers are making the transition from harm's way, to arm's way as hugs awaited their return from Afghanistan. In Canton, 12-year-old Douglas Satterfield waited in f...

Census Awareness Letters Arrive at Households Nationwide
ATLANTA -- There's no doubt you've heard those Census forms will be coming in the mail very soon. In fact, you probably got a letter telling you just that. Everybody is getting a letters in the mai...

Public Defender Act 'Flawed'
ATLANTA (AP) -- A top Georgia prosecutor suggested that the Georgia Supreme Court strike down the law that created the statewide public defender system because it was "fatally flawed." Gwinnett Count...

KBR wins $94M Piedmont Healthcare deal
’s building group $94 million for preconstruction and construction services for a replacement facility for Piedmont Newnan Hospital. Houston-based KBR (NYSE: KBR) said the new $162 million hosp...

February storms cost $30M
said severe storms in February led to the cancellation of 7,000 flights, or about 3.2 percent of its system capacity. The dropped flights pushed down revenue by $65 million and cut costs by $35 milli...

Charges sink TRX to $44M loss for 2009
into the red in 2009. The Atlanta-based provider of data processing and services to the travel industry (NASDAQ: TRXI) had a net loss of $44 million and a loss per share of $2.39, compared with net i...

Delta talking to other carriers about alliances
Delta Air Lines Inc., still smarting from its failed bid to lure Japan Airlines into a partnership, is talking to other carriers about expanding its global alliances, a senior executive said Tuesday w...

At airports, keep taking those shoes off _ for now
You'll still have to take off your shoes when you go through airport security.Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Tuesday that technology currently available doesn't allow screeners to a...

Complainant winds up jailed by city police
CORDELE — Filing a report with city police about a relative’s failure to return a car she had loaned him led to the arrest of the complainant instead Monday morning.

Metro Atlanta woman gets prison for Katrina fraud
McDonough, Ga., resident Markisha Burks was sentenced Tuesday to one year in federal prison for posing as a victim of Hurricane Katrina in order to defraud the federal government. She was charged wit...