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In a 6-2 vote Monday night, the Bibb County school board reached a settlement with Sharon Patterson that will end her decade-long tenure as superintendent of schools.
WARNER ROBINS — City Council set in motion a plan that seeks to lift a land restriction on what can be built at Jimmy Perkins Memorial Field in a special meeting that at times became tense.
For awhile, the University Center was a woodshed, and USC Upstate was taking Mercer there. The first 10 minutes may have been Mercer’s ugliest of the season, and the opening 15 minutes were almost as bad, with the Bears trailing by 19 points and the Spartans treating the baskets as their own.
Plans for a mixed-use development as part of the College Hill Corridor moved another step Monday toward reality. The Macon-Bibb County Planning & Zoning Commission approved a conditional-use permit for 1602 Montpelier Ave./1400 Coleman Ave. to allow the development of loft apartments and retail space.
STRANGE TRIBE: A slain rich woman, a dead parrot, truth serum and a fingerprint. Half a century later, one of Macon's most curious criminal episodes remains a quirky mystery.
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ATLANTA — Bills meant to reduce paper use in state government and to expand a state Web site already loaded with information about government spending and employee salaries will be a priority for top Senate leaders, they announced Monday.
The 2009 Georgia General Assembly session ended with a deafening thud as far as two threatened museums were concerned. The Georgia Music Hall of Fame and the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame were counting on a locally sponsored measure to devote an extra penny from the hotel-motel to help the museums make ends meet. It didn’t happen. Our local delegation couldn’t get itself together enough to get the job done.
Mother Nature's wrath has forced the U.S. House to scrap its work week.
A new indictment has boosted criminal insider trading charges against one of America's richest men in what New York authorities have described as history's largest hedge fund insider trading case.
Relatives in eastern Cuba claim to have held a 125th birthday party for a woman named Juana Bautista de la Candelaria Rodriguez, but it is not clear if she is really that old.
A smelly problem is piling at trails around Jackson where people go hiking and cross-country skiing with their dogs. How big is this problem? Bridger-Teton National Forest officials say they recently counted 173 piles of dog waste around just one trailhead.
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An ambitious young New Yorker, disillusioned with romance, takes a whirlwind trip to Rome where she defiantly plucks magic coins from a fountain of love, inexplicably igniting the passion of those who threw them in: a sausage magnate, a street magician ...
Rated: PG-13 for some suggestive content