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Aviation Museum: Boondoggle, Inspiration or Both?

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Published Aug. 29, 2010 at 2:43 a.m.

ATLANTA (AP) Fulton County Commissioners are spending $5 million to build an aviation museum that will double as a community center and, critics say, a boondoggle ... The commission voted 5-2 last week to build the museum, financed by federal stimulus bond money, at Fulton County Airport-Charlie Brown Field. The project, which will have an estimated annual operational cost of $300,000, drew quick criticism upon approval ... ``What we approved (last) Wednesday is a concept and nothing more ... we

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One Person Killed in Gwinnett Shooting

Published July 18, 2010 at 7:48 a.m.

(WSB Radio) -- One person was killed during an overnight shooting in Gwinnett County ... Police said the victim was shot in the head around 12:30 a.m. Sunday at the Falls Apartments off Satellite Blvd. in Duluth ... "Witness said the victim was shot by what appeared to be two dark-skinned, possibly African-American males," Gwinnett Police Cpl. Brian Kelly told WSB Radio. "One individual was shooting, while another was accompanying this person. There may be more." ... Authorities spent all night

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AJC Poll: Handel Surges Into the GOP Lead

Published July 18, 2010 at 5:19 a.m.

(Courtesy AJC) -- Bolstered by an endorsement from conservative superstar Sarah Palin, former Secretary of State Karen Handel appears to have surged into the lead of the Republican race for governor, according to a new statewide poll conducted for the Georgia Newspaper Partnership ... The poll of 400 likely Republican primary voters taken Thursday and Friday put Handel in first place with 29 percent of Georgians polled saying she would get their vote. That's up 6 percentage points from an

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Scientists Get Another Day to Study Gulf Spill Cap

Published July 18, 2010 at 4:18 a.m.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) Scientists got an extra day to evaluate whether the giant cork bottling BP's busted well in the Gulf of Mexico will hold, while officials overseeing the disaster pondered their next step ... After days of watching, engineers still saw no signs of any leak in the well cap that has shut in the crude for three days. The oil giant and the government were becoming increasingly confident in the temporary stopgap ... ``Everybody has been so worried about it blowing,'' said Willianet

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Poll: Voters Support Immigration Crackdown

Published July 18, 2010 at 4:16 a.m.

ATLANTA (AP) A majority of Georgia voters would support giving police the power to arrest suspected illegal immigrants who cannot prove they are in the country legally, according to poll results released Saturday ... The survey shows 68 percent of voters would support enacting a law meant to crack down on illegal immigrants similar to one recently adopted in Arizona. That law requires police, while enforcing other laws, to question a person's immigration status if officers have a reasonable

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Jefferson House Fire kills 2, Injures 3

Published July 18, 2010 at 3:56 a.m.

JEFFERSON, Ga. (AP) A woman and her 9-year-old niece died and three other family members suffered smoke inhalation in an early morning house fire Saturday in Jackson County ... The bodies of 33-year-old Mary Nicole Cassell and 9-year-old Winter Wright were found in the remains of the two-story house in Jefferson, said Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John Oxendine. Wright's mother and two other children were treated for smoke inhalation ... Cassell awoke hungry around 2:30 a.m. and roused

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Paraplegic Man Dies in Accident in Atlanta

Published July 18, 2010 at 3:53 a.m.

ATLANTA (AP) Police say a paraplegic man in his 50s died after he lost control of his specially adapted minivan and ran off an interstate ... Police say the 2005 Toyota Sienna LE, which was adapted for use by a handicapped driver, ran off an Interstate 75 ramp around 4 a.m. Saturday when the driver lost control ... The driver, who's name wasn't immediately released pending notification of his family, died at the scene. Police say a female caretaker in the passenger seat was injured and was taken

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Man Wanted in DeKalb Killing Arrested in Calif.

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Published July 18, 2010 at 3:51 a.m.

DECATUR, Ga. (AP) Authorities say a man wanted for a killing in DeKalb County is in jail in California ... The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that 42-year-old Mark Rudolph Reed is being held without bond in Los Angeles and is scheduled to be extradited to DeKalb County ... DeKalb police Officer Jason Gagnon says Reed is wanted on a murder warrant in the 2007 death of Marlon Greene ... The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says Reed was arrested July 10 ... A DeKalb police report

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Suwanee Man Shot By Undercover N.J. Officer

Published July 18, 2010 at 3:48 a.m.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) Essex County authorities say a Georgia man was shot and killed by an undercover sheriff's detective in Newark's Branch Brook Park ... But it's not clear what led to the incident in which 48-year-old Defarra Ivan Gaymon of Suwanee was shot once in the chest ... County Prosecutor Robert Laurino said Saturday that the detective was investigating complaints of sexual activity occurring in public when he encountered Gaymon around 6 p.m. Friday ... Laurino said it's not known why

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South Ga. Man Shoots Wife, Kids in Murder-Suicide

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Published July 18, 2010 at 3:38 a.m.

BLAKELY, Ga. (AP) Authorities say an Early County man shot his wife and two children before turning the gun on himself ... Mark Pro with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation says 37-year-old Matthew Lowell Justice shot his wife, 36-year-old Amy Lynn Justice, and their two children late Friday night ... Matthew Justice was pronounced dead at the scene and his wife was pronounced dead at the hospital ... Their 14-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter, whose names weren't released, were taken to

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