Police vet more than 1,000 tips in girl's death
ORANGE PARK, Fla. - Investigators had more than a thousand tips but are still trying to figure out what happened when 7-year-old Somer Thompson disappeared on her walk home from a north Florida school last week.
Nations:U.S. Source:(AP)
2009-10-25
Largest US sting on drug cartel arrests 300-plus
OKLAHOMA CITY - In the largest single strike at Mexican drug operations in the U.S., authorities arrested more than 300 people in a sting that demonstrates an upstart cartel's vast reach north of the border.
Nations:Mexico U.S. Source:(AP)
2009-10-22
Cops searching for missing Fla. girl find a body
ORANGE PARK, Fla. - Authorities say they have not identified a child's body they found Wednesday in a landfill while searching for a missing 7-year-old girl. Family members were hopeful the girl is still alive, though neighbors in the girl's community feared the worst.
Nations:U.S. Source:(AP)
2009-10-21
Southeast floods block highways; toll rises to 8
AUSTELL, Ga. - Washed-out roads and flooded interstate highways around Atlanta added to the misery Tuesday after days of torrential rain in the Southeast that claimed at least eight lives, including a 15-year-old boy whose body was found in the Chattooga River.
Nations:U.S. Source:(AP)
2009-09-22
Teen says brother innocent in Ga. mobile home case
TOWNSEND, Ga. - The brother of a Georgia man charged with slaying his father and seven others in a mobile home insisted Saturday that the suspect would never harm his family, and he also speculated that a dispute over drugs could have prompted the killings.
Nations:U.S. Source:(AP)
2009-09-05
Delta Air Lines to slash flight capacity
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Delta Air Lines said Thursday it would slash flight capacity by 10 percent in 2009 and review staff needs in the face of the global recession and rising fuel prices.
Activities:2008 Airlines Downturn Source:(AFP)
2009-06-11
Americans struggle through a day in the recession
It's a rainy spring morning and Tamara Ogier plants herself at a table in a Spartan room in the Atlanta federal courthouse, computer and tape recorder at hand, ready to hear another day's stories of financial ruin.
Nations:U.S. Afghanistan Activities:2008 U.S. Recession
2009-05-03
Swine flu cases pass 100 in US, vaccine pursued
WASHINGTON - U.S. authorities are pledging to eventually produce enough swine flu vaccine for everyone but the shots couldn't begin until fall at the earliest.
Nations:Mexico U.S. People:Joseph Biden Barack Obama Steven Chu Activities:2009 Swine Flu Source:(AP)
2009-05-01
Police: Wanted Ga. professor's vehicle found
ATHENS, Ga. - Police said Friday they've found a vehicle that belongs to a former University of Georgia professor suspected of killing his wife and two other people outside a community theater last week.
Nations:U.S. Netherlands Source:(AP)
2009-05-01
World gov'ts race to contain swine flu outbreak
WASHINGTON - The world's governments raced to avoid both a pandemic and global hysteria Sunday as more possible swine flu cases surfaced from Canada to New Zealand and the United States declared a public health emergency. "It's not a time to panic," the White House said.
Nations:Canada New Zealand U.S. Mexico Bolivia U.K. People:Barack Obama Activities:2009 Swine Flu
2009-04-27
Ga. prof suspected in shootings leaves no trail
ATHENS, Ga. - A college professor suspected in the shooting deaths of his wife and two men outside a community theater hasn't used his cell phone or credit card, leaving few traces as authorities searched for him Sunday.
Nations:U.S. Italy Source:(AP)
2009-04-27
Workers feel the brunt of health insurance woes
WASHINGTON - American workers -- whose taxes pay for massive government health programs -- are getting squeezed like no other group by private health insurance premiums that are rising much faster than their wages.
Nations:U.S. People:Barack Obama Source:(AP)
2009-03-23
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