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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Georgia

Georgia stories: 267 news summaries

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Georgia Man Faces Death Despite Collapsed Case

Since 1996, feds rarely step in on capital cases

Jul 16, 07 5:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Georgia man is scheduled to be executed tomorrow even though the case against him has largely collapsed. Witnesses have recanted their statements and one confessed to lying in the trial of Troy Davis, convicted of murdering an off-duty cop in 1989. Prosecutors say the recanted testimony is not significant... More »

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death penalty • lethal injection • Georgia • troy davis • death sentence

10 Best Retirement Bargains

U.S. News susses out the 10 spots that offer the most to retirees on a limited budget

Jul 2, 07 12:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Cost of living isn't the only important factor when deciding on a place to retire. Weather, proximity to cities, airports, entertainment and hospitals are also play a part. U.S. News considered all the angles and came out with these top picks:
  1. Boone, North Carolina
  2. Dahlonega, Georgia
  3. Fredericksburg, Texas
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Florida • Texas • Georgia • North Carolina • list • retirement • homes • Maine

Toothpaste Scare Widens—Again

Tainted tubes from China turn up
in Georgia prisons, hospitals

Jun 28, 07 7:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Chinese toothpaste scare is far from over and is more than just a scare. Tainted tubes have turned up, as expected, in discount stores—but officials have also found them in institutions such as prisons and hospitals, the Times reports. Nearly 1 million tubes containing varying amounts of a... More »

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China • food • Florida • toothpaste • Georgia • chemicals • food safety • tainted toothpaste • safety • contamination

AG Defends 10-Year Sentence for Teenage Sex

Argues judge can't throw out sentence just because it's now a misdemeanor

Jun 24, 07 6:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - In Thurbert Baker's own words: "As attorney general, it is my responsibility to follow the laws of Georgia as they are written, not how some may wish they were written." Baker was defending, in an opinion piece in the Altanta Journal-Constitution, his prosecution of a Georgia teenager who... More »

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crime • Georgia • oral sex • Genarlow Wilson • Thurbert Baker • misdemeanor • teenager

Teen Sex Case Takes a Turn

Judge throws out
'cruel and unusual' 10-year sentence;
AG plans to appeal

Jun 11, 07 6:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - A judge ordered a 21-year-old Georgia man freed from prison today, ruling that his 10-year sentence for aggravated child molestation—receiving consensual oral sex from a 15-year-old when he was 17—was "cruel and unusual" and that keeping him incarcerated would be a "miscarriage of justice." The... More »

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prison • Jimmy Carter • Georgia • oral sex • Genarlow Wilson • courts • child molestation

Alaska and Georgia Move Up Primaries

15 states now voting
on Feb. 5; 5 more expected to switch

May 30, 07 8:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Georgia and Alaska have moved their presidential primaries up to February 5, making a total of 15 states that will vote that day. Five more states are also close to making a switch. "We're going to be on Feb. 5, along with what appears to be over half the... More »

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Alaska • primary • Georgia • presidential primaries • nomination • Election 2008

Texans Acquire Schaub for
Draft Picks

$48 million deal for Matt Schaub as starter

Mar 25, 07 5:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Former second-string Atlanta Falcons QB Matt Schaub will earn up to $48 million as starting quarterback for the Houston Texans the next six seasons. The Texans, meanwhile, are looking to shop David Carr, who had been the team's starter. In five years, Carr's QB rating was 75.5, and he... More »

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sports • NFL • Atlanta Falcons • Matt Schaub • Houston Texans • Texas • Atlanta • Georgia • football • Houston

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