State attorney general says Georgia must hand over $18 million to local governments - Washington Examiner
ATLANTA — Georgia's top lawyer says the state must hand over $18 million in disputed sales tax revenue to local governments in the midst of a crippling state budget crunch. The opinion from Attorney General Thurbert Baker was obtained by The Associated Press. A spokesman for Gov. Sonny Perdue was
Georgia man convicted of killing girlfriend, 16, who ... - Savannah Morning News
AUSTELL, Ga. — A Douglasville man was convicted Wednesday of stabbing and beating his 16-year-old girlfriend to death after she confided she was pregnant and wanted to keep the baby. It took a Cobb County jury about five hours of deliberation to ...
Georgia Considers Banning Sex Offenders From Facebook ... - WSB-TV Atlanta
ATLANTA -- Georgia sex offenders could soon be removed from popular online social networking sites. State Rep. Rob Teilhet introducing a measure Tuesday that would allow the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to send sex offenders' information to ...
Georgia lawmaker proposes cutting 19 Superior Court ... - Chattanooga Times Free Press
Sen. Mitch Seabaugh, R-Sharpsburg, is proposing cutting 19 Superior Court judges — a move he said could save the state up to $14 million. Seabaugh says S.B. 485 would reduce the number of Superior Court judges from 205 to 186. There are 16 in ...
Georgia Tech's visit to Mercer rained out - Macon Telegraph
Georgia Tech's baseball game at Mercer ... The game has been rescheduled for March 23 at Mercer. It is Tech's second weather-related postponement of the season. The Yellow Jackets' game on March 2 against Western Carolina fell victim to rain and snow ...
Georgia House, Senate OK water conservation bills - MSN Money
ATLANTA (AP) - Identical water conservation bills cleared both chambers of the Georgia Legislature on Wednesday, an overture designed to help the state in negotiating a deal with Florida and Alabama over water rights. The bills provide incentives to encourage water conservation. Among the provisions
January unemployment rises to 11.4% in SW Georgia - WALB 10
ATLANTA – The Georgia Department of Labor (GDOL) reported today that the preliminary unadjusted unemployment rate in the Southwest Georgia area rose to 11.4 percent in January, up 1.1 percentage point from a revised 10.3 percent in December ...
Foreclosure rates up by smallest amount in 4 years - Associated Press
It was followed by Arizona, Florida, California and Michigan. Rounding out the top 10 were Utah, Idaho, Illinois, Georgia and Maryland. The metro area with the highest foreclosure rate in February was Las Vegas. Though one in every 90 homes there ...
Unemployment tops 20% in eight California counties - Los Angeles Times
For many California areas, unemployment rates moved persistently higher in January, indicating that the national economic recovery hasn't yet translated into jobs for the Golden State. New county-by-county figures released by the state Wednesday ...
Attorney: Pa. officers with Roethlisberger saw nothing ... - Baltimore Sun
PITTSBURGH - Two off-duty Pennsylvania law enforcement officers were with Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger at the Georgia nightclub where a woman accused him of sexual assault, and the two men didn't see anything inappropriate, an ...
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New death threats for Swedish cartoonist
 The Swedish cartoonist whose sketch of the Prophet Muhammad has angered Muslims says he's received more death threats since arrests were made this week over an alleged plot to kill him.
Mexico’s Slim tops the list of world’s richest
 For the third time in three years, the world has a new richest man.
Cuba’s free sex changes mark break from past
 A small but remarkable transformation is happening in Cuba, a nation known for the rugged revolution of Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and a band of ever-macho, bearded rebels, who long punished gays and transsexuals, but is now paying for sex changes.
Greece hit by strikes over austerity plan
 Protesters clash with police as more than 20,000 people march through central Athens during a nationwide general strike against the government's new austerity measures.
Quake claims Haiti’s best and brightest
 The Jan. 12 earthquake disproportionately killed young professionals, and compounding the loss is a quickening brain drain of people with the ability and means to leave a ravaged country.
Britain confronts debt of Greek proportions
The woes of Britain show that the troubles for Europe, and the West, extend far beyond the traditionally laggard countries of southern Europe.
Israeli TV ad spoofs Hamas killing
 An Israeli supermarket chain looks to cash in on the publicity over the assassination of a Hamas operative in Dubai with a series of new TV ads offering "killer prices."
Palestinians threaten to quit peace talks
The Palestinians threaten to pull out of U.S.-mediated peace talks with Israel before negotiations even start.
Report: Iran sentences professor to 6 years
An Iranian appeals court sentenced a university professor to six years in prison for suspected involvement in the country's postelection turmoil, local media reported Thursday.
U.K. millionaire to move to mud hut
An ex-con U.K. millionaire is selling his 16th-century farmhouse and businesses to start a children's charity in Uganda.
43 Somalis die in capital after 2 days of warfare
Heavy fighting between Somali insurgents and pro-government troops has killed at least 43 people over two days, as African Union peacekeepers used tanks to help the beleaguered government beat back an insurgent attack, officials said Thursday.
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