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  Coroner names 3 of 5 killed in Vegas chopper crash

  Posted on December 11, 2011 by B and O in Featured, US News

  HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Medical examiners in Las Vegas are confirming the names of three of the five people killed in a sightseeing helicopter crash near Lake Mead. Clark County Coroner Michael Murphy said Saturday that relatives must be notified before he can release the names of the final two victims, a couple from New [...]

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• NASA satellite breaks up, plunges back to Earth

  Posted on September 24, 2011 by B and O in US News

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – A six-tones NASA science satellite pierced the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean and fell back to Earth, the U.S. space agency said on Saturday, but it was not yet known where the remains landed. NASA said its decommissioned Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, which took an unpredictable course as it tumbled [...]

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• Atlanta to streamline permit process for residential, commercial construction

  Posted on September 24, 2011 by B and O in US News

  Atlanta leaders want to make it easier to navigate the city’s tangled construction permit process. The intended message: Atlanta is open for business. The response from businesspeople: It’s about time. For more than a decade, Atlanta residents and businesspeople have complained that the city’s process for inspecting construction projects and dishing out permits is an [...]

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• Gang members sentenced to life for Facebook-related shootings

  Posted on September 24, 2011 by B and O in US News

  Two Atlanta teens who had targeted rival female gang members but instead shot and killed two bystanders were convicted and sentenced to life plus 85 years in prison Friday, the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office announced. According to prosecutors, the September 2010 shootings started when the mother of one of the suspects alleged on Facebook [...]

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• Atlanta cop allegedly draws gun, mistakes car for police SUV

  Posted on September 24, 2011 by B and O in US News

  A Covington man says he was mistakenly stopped at gunpoint Friday by an Atlanta Police sergeant.   The policeman apparently mistook the sedan the man was driving for a police SUV parked nearby, Rashid McCall told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “I felt like I was being carjacked,” McCall said. “Thoughts of my children flashed in my [...]

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• Hair thieves strike again

  Posted on September 24, 2011 by B and O in US News

  The hair weave thieves struck again early Friday, this time stealing strands worth more than $100,000 from a Clayton County beauty stor The Beauty Master store, on Mt. Zion Road in Morrow, is the latest shop targeted by robbers, who break into the stores and grab dozens of packages of hair, worth an average of [...]

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