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Teen Critical in Smyrna Hit-and-Run

Published July 17, 2010 at 5:28 a.m.

(WSB Radio) -- A teenage girl injured in a hit-and-run crash was still in critical condition late Saturday night ... Smyrna police said the suspect hit Alex Langford, 17, while she was out of the car. It happened while the suspect was trying to flee after crashing into the back of the vehicle Langford and her friends were in just after midnight Saturday on Cobb Pkwy. north of Cumberland Blvd ... "Apparently the vehicle had struck the victim's vehicle that was stopped in the roadway," Officer

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Records: Evans Sent 200+ Texts to Companion

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Published July 17, 2010 at 5:23 a.m.

(WSB Radio) -- Former University of Georgia athletics director Damon Evans exchanged about 250 text messages with the woman who was in the car with him when he was arrested, according to cell-phone records released by UGA Friday ... Those records show Evans and Courtney Fuhrmann, 28, sent four texts around 9 a.m. July 1st, the morning after they were arrested in Atlanta. Evans was charged with DUI. Furman was arrested for disorderly conduct ... Evans also called Fuhrmann on July 1st, about an

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Apple CEO On iPhone Issue: 'We Aren't Perfect'

Published July 17, 2010 at 5:08 a.m.

CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) A perfect iPhone? There's no app for that ... Apple Inc. will give free protective cases to buyers of its latest iPhone to prevent reception problems that occur when people cover a certain spot on the phone with a bare hand ... CEO Steve Jobs apologized Friday to people who are less than satisfied with the iPhone 4, even as he denied it has an antenna problem that needs fixing ... ``We're not perfect,'' Jobs said at a news conference. ``Phones aren't perfect.'' ... The

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BP, Scientists Try to Make Sense of Well Puzzle

Published July 17, 2010 at 4:51 a.m.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) Engineers kept vigil Saturday over the massive cap holding back oil from BP's busted Gulf well, their eyes glued to monitors in a faraway control room that displayed pressure readings, temperature gauges and underwater images ... Their round-the-clock work deciphering a puzzle of data from undersea robots and instruments at the wellhead is helping BP and the government determine whether the cap is holding tight as the end of a critical 48-hour testing window approaches. Signs so

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Cobb, Fulton Lead State in Early Voting Totals

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Published July 17, 2010 at 4:46 a.m.

ATLANTA (AP) Georgia voters cast more than 100,000 ballots before early voting ended Friday and while participation had been lower in some counties than two years ago, at least one had nearly tripled its early balloting by midweek ... Any voter can request a mail-in ballot or walk into a polling station starting 45 days before Election Day and cast a ballot. The state Legislature expanded the system two years ago so voters did not need a specific excuse for example, out-of-town travel or an

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Bear Gets Residents' Attention in Gainesville

Published July 17, 2010 at 4:41 a.m.

GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) A bear that's been seen roaming around Gainesville has made a couple more appearances ... Kevin Lowrey, a Department of Natural Resource wildlife biologist, said Friday that while he's trying to catch the bear, which began showing up around town on Thursday, he needs the right opportunity ... Lowrey thought he had an opportunity Friday morning when the bear stayed at one resident's bird feeder for an extended period. But when Lowrey arrived, the bear was moving again ...

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Judge Tosses Effort to Block Oxendine Probe

Published July 17, 2010 at 4:36 a.m.

ATLANTA (AP) A Fulton County judge tossed an attempt by two insurance companies that sought to block an ethics investigation into contributions to Republican gubernatorial hopeful John Oxendine ... Judge Kimberly Esmond Adams said in her ruling Friday that the commission has the power to ``find probable cause to initiate hearings and similarly to issue subpoenas in connection with its investigation of public violations.'' ... The two insurance companies are under investigation for funneling

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Federal Panel Upholds Wesley Snipes Sentence

Published July 17, 2010 at 4:28 a.m.

ATLANTA (AP) A federal appeals court Friday upheld the three-year prison sentence against film star Wesley Snipes, who was convicted two years ago of failing to file income tax returns for three years ... The opinion by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is the latest blow to the action movie icon, whose attorneys argued that the three-year sentence was ``unreasonable'' and that he should have been granted a hearing to decide whether his trial should have been held in New York instead of

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Barnes Backs Arizona-Style Immigration Law

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Published July 17, 2010 at 4:26 a.m.

ATLANTA (AP) Democratic gubernatorial front-runner Roy Barnes said Friday if elected he would sign immigration legislation similar to what Arizona passed ... Meanwhile, four Republicans running for the state's top job said they'd allow local communities to decide whether to permit Sunday alcohol sales ... With just five days remaining until Georgia's July 20 primary, 12 of the 14 candidates seeking the governor's mansion met in separate Democratic and Republican debates sponsored by WSB-TV on

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What Uga the Ga. Bulldog Gets Before He Flies

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Published July 17, 2010 at 4:23 a.m.

WASHINGTON (AP) Owners of bulldogs and pugs, beware: Short-snouted breeds accounted for roughly half the purebred dog deaths on airplanes in the past five years, government data released Friday shows. That comes as no surprise to the owner of the University of Georgia's famous mascot, Uga, who has a surgical procedure done on the dog to help him fly safely ... Overall, at least 122 dog deaths were reported since May 2005, when U.S. airlines were required to start disclosing them, the

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