B.J. Williams![]() Recent Articles by B.J. WilliamsThe Newtown schools superintendent says preparations have been made for a "normal" day, yet it will likely be anything but that when classes resume for Sandy Hook Elementary School students for the first time since a gunman killed 20 of their classmates. Six people were killed in traffic crashes in Georgia over the 102-hour New Year's holiday travel period, including one person from north Georgia. An emergency deal reached after weeks of rancorous negotiations will keep the U.S. from driving off the so-called fiscal cliff, but higher taxes and continued political bickering in Washington threaten to shake the fragile U.S. economy well into 2013. The assistant director of security at the Augusta Youth Detention Campus, Melvin Womble, has been dismissed, the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice announced Tuesday. A pre-dawn fire on Lakeview Street north of Gainesville destroyed a house. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton developed a blood clot in her head but did not suffer a stroke or neurological damage, her doctors said Monday. They say they are confident that she will make a full recovery. The man accused of murder in the Friday shooting death of a Gainesville auto dealership employee will remain behind bars. The union for longshoremen along the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico has agreed to extend its contract for 30 days The two men who robbed the Sun Trust bank branch on Thompson Bridge road in Gainesville on Dec. 11 appear to be the same men who robbed a Tennessess bank the day after Christmas. Firefighters from both Dawson and Forsyth counties spent about three hours Thursday morning battling a fire at a tire shop on Highway 53 at Blue Ridge Overlook. An East Hall man will be arraigned on Jan. 8 on charges that he sexually assaulted four teenage girls at his home. City officials say it's not a done deal, but there is the possibility Walmart will build a new store on Highway 29/129 in Jefferson. The Afghan Interior Ministry said Tuesday a policewoman who killed an American contractor from Georgia in Kabul a day earlier was a native Iranian who came to Afghanistan and displayed "unstable behavior" but had no known links to militants. An enormous storm system that dumped snow and sleet on the nation's midsection and unleashed damaging tornadoes around the Deep South began punching its way toward the Northeast on Wednesday, slowing holiday travel. What a couple of mugs, sporting less-than-perfect physiques in the bargain. An Iranian semi-official news agency says there has been another cyberattack by the sophisticated computer worm Stuxnet, this time on the industries in the country's south. Powerful thunderstorms are possible over parts of Georgia late on Christmas Day into Wednesday, bringing the threat of some tornadoes, forecasters say. Pilgrims and locals celebrated Christmas Day on Tuesday in the ancient Bethlehem church built over the site where tradition holds Jesus was born, candles illuminating the sacred site and the joyous sound of prayer filling its overflowing halls. Previous |1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | 130 | 131 | Next |
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