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Georgia Firefighters Now Safe, Gunman Killed by Police

K2 Radio News — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:37:27 +0000

Authorities in northwest Georgia say a barricaded man is holding five firefighters hostage.

Fugitive Calls For Roadside Help, Gets Busted

Associated Press — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:23:12 +0000

EVANSTON, Wyo. (AP) — A 59-year-old fugitive is back behind bars after he ran out of gas in Wyoming and called the local sheriff's office for roadside assistance.

The Wyoming Highway Patrol said Tuesday that Richard Vincent of Prineville, Ore

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Georgia's Shorter University Requires Staffers to Pledge They Aren't Gay

Shauna Wright — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:10:15 +0000

The 200 staffers at Shorter University, a Christian college in Rome, Georgia, are now required to sign a “Personal Lifestyle Statement” that, among other things, forces those employees to say they aren’t gay. Anyone refusing to sign the statement is subject to termination.

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Georgia Pardons Board Rejects Bid to Halt Execution of Troy Davis

Shauna Wright — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:54:36 +0000

On Wednesday, the Georgia State Board of Pardons rejected a last-minute appeal to halt the execution of Troy Davis, a death row inmate convicted of shooting and killing a police officer in a crime both he and many others say he did not commit.

Although defense attorneys argued that ballistic testing linking Davis to the shooting was flawed and said Davis would take a polygraph test, the board said it would not review its decision to allow the execution by lethal injection, scheduled for 7 p.m. Wednesday night, to go forward.

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