| May 5, 2009 | - Jeff Kepner, a 57-year-old Georgian man who lost both his hands to a bacterial infection ten years ago, received the nation's first double hand transplant.
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 7, 2008 | -
Democrats added to their majorities in both houses of Congress, while Senate races in Minnesota, Georgia, and Alaska remained undecided.
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 24, 2007 | - The state of Georgia had less than 80 days of stored water left. Governor Sonny Perdue banned the washing of state vehicles, ordered inmates to take no more than one shower a day, and insisted that state departments use paper plates at least once a week.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| August 29, 2007 | -
Atlanta's city council debated whether or not to outlaw baggy pants.
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Atlanta Journal Constitution
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| April 4, 2007 | - At the CNN Center in Atlanta, a woman died after being shot in the face by her estranged boyfriend.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| January 23, 2007 | -
Republican legislators in Georgia introduced a bill to allow a white suburb of Atlanta to secede from the city.
| Source:
AP via Yahoo
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| January 5, 2007 | - A man shot a thousand-pound wild hog in suburban Atlanta.
| Source:
AP via Yahoo! News
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| December 7, 2006 | -
Democrats in Congress announced that beginning in January members of the House would work five days a week. “Keeping us up here eats away at families,” said Rep. Jack Kingston (R., Georgia), who spends more than half his week at home. “Marriages suffer. The Democrats could care less about families--that's what this says.” The Democrats were also trying to stop smoking on the Hill, and attempting to block a $3,300 congressional raise.
| Source 1:
Washington Post
Source 2:
Washington Post
Source 3:
Washington Post
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| November 21, 2006 | - A ninety-two-year-old woman was killed in a shootout with Atlanta police.
| Source:
AP via Breitbart
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| October 8, 2006 | - A ministry in Atlanta, Georgia, was sending camouflaged
devotionals to U.S. soldiers serving overseas.
| Source:
WTVM.com
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| July 19, 2006 | - U.S. Representative Phil Gingrey of Georgia claimed that God supported a Constitutional amendment banning same-sex
marriages. “I think,” he said, “God has spoken very clearly on this issue.” “It's part of God's plan,” said Texas
Congressman John Carter, “for the future of mankind.” “We best not,” said Colorado Representative Bob Beauprez, “be messing with His plan.”
| Source:
Washington Post
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| July 7, 2006 | - The high courts of Georgia and New York both upheld bans on gay
marriage.
| Source:
Forbes
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| June 3, 2006 | - Former Army First Lieutenant William Calley was said to wander at night through Benning, Georgia, haunted by his memories of the My Lai massacre.
| Source:
The Kansas City Star
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| April 12, 2006 | - In Athens, Georgia, several agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms briefly detained a University of Georgia student who was dressed as a ninja. “Seeing someone with something across the face,” said a special agent, “from a federal standpoint—that's not right.” The student said he was leaving a pirate vs. ninja event.
| Source:
RedAndBlack.com
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| January 25, 2006 | - The FBI was spying on vegans in Georgia.
| Source:
11Alive.com
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| December 9, 2005 | - The office of the Governor of Georgia issued a press release to announce the lighting of a holiday tree; a half-hour later the office announced that the tree was “in fact a Christmas tree.”
| Source:
The New York Times
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| December 1, 2005 | - A Jasper County, Georgia, eighth-grader was dismissed from school after he took down a video camera installed in the school's boys' bathroom; it turned out that the camera had been placed there by the school principal so that he could observe the boys.
| Source:
WMAZ.com
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| November 14, 2005 | - In Georgia a 37-year-old woman married a 15-year-old boy.
| Source:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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| September 5, 2005 | - In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina the United States declared disasters in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Taken together, the 90,000-square-mile disaster area would be the twelfth largest state. Emergencies were declared in Colorado, Georgia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia.
| Source:
U.S. Department of Defense
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| August 16, 2005 | - A seventy-eight-year-old Georgia woman, angry that her eighty-five-year-old ex-boyfriend was cheating on her, shot and killed him with an antique handgun. "I'd do it again," she said.
| Source:
MSNBC
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| August 12, 2005 | - A man in Columbus, Georgia, was in trouble for smearing feces on his body and walking through a mall.
| Source:
Ledger-Enquirer.com
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| July 2, 2005 | - The state of Georgia
legalized fishing with only your hands.
| Source:
The Telegraph
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| May 24, 2005 | - A judge ruled that stickers that encourage students to question the theory of evolution, placed on science textbooks in Cobb County, Georgia, violated the principle of the separation of church and state. Thirty-four thousand, four hundred fifty-two stickers must be scraped off in order to comply with the ruling.
| Source:
MSNBC
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| May 17, 2005 | - In Georgia a businessman named Hubert Johnson agreed to take down a large stuffed monkey that was hanging from a crane outside his drilling business. “The message to the workers is, 'Don't monkey around with safety',” said Johnson, even though the monkey had its hands and face painted black and was draped in a Confederate flag.
| Source:
AJC.com
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| April 13, 2005 | - In the United States, Eric Rudolph, a Christian
terrorist, pleaded guilty to several bombings, including those at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, an abortion-clinic bombing in 1998, and an attack on a gay nightclub in 1997.
| Source:
BBC News
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| April 8, 2005 | - A Georgia man died after police shot him with nonlethal beanbags.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| April 6, 2005 | - A social-studies teacher in Georgia was in trouble for putting on blackface.
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WSBTV.com
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| March 11, 2005 | - In Atlanta, a defendant on trial for rape grabbed a deputy's gun and went on a shooting spree, wounding the deputy and killing the judge presiding over his case, a court reporter, and a different deputy. He stole several vehicles and took a woman hostage. The woman won his trust, made him pancakes, and turned him in.
| Source 1:
New York Times
Source 2:
CNN
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| March 11, 2005 | - A Georgia man was arrested for setting up a methamphetamine lab in a Kmart bathroom.
| Source:
News4Jax.com
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| March 10, 2005 | -
Panda
breeding season began. In Atlanta, zookeepers were watching Lun Lun the panda for signs of ovulation; when she is ready to mate they will reintroduce her to Yang Yang.
| Source:
AP
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| January 13, 2005 | - A federal judge ordered Cobb County, Georgia, schools to remove from biology textbooks all stickers that question the theory of evolution.
| Source:
The Guardian
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| October 2, 2004 | - Eight students in Georgia were poisoned by a cookie.
| Source:
New York Times
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| May 25, 2004 | - The governor of Georgia declared a state of emergency in six counties because of the "potential danger" posed by demonstrators at the Group of 8 meeting.
| Source:
New York Times
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| May 19, 2004 | - Workers found a rocket launcher near a train station in Atlanta, Georgia.
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 9, 2004 | - A Georgia woman was arrested for trying to pass a fake $1 million bill at a Wal-Mart.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| January 31, 2004 | - The International Poultry Exposition was held in Atlanta; among the items on display were automated slaughterers, pluckers, and skinners; an antibiotic delivery device that injects 3,500 chicks per hour with pressurized air; metal detectors that cull bits of metal and bone from meat; and a hands-free neck-breaking machine.
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 31, 2004 | - Former president Jimmy Carter denounced the proposed Georgia state science curriculum, which omits basic information about the theory of natural selection.
| Source:
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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| January 1, 2004 | - Six men were indicted for burning a cross in the yard of a Georgia woman who was dating a biracial man.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 25, 2003 | - Frat boys at the University of Georgia killed and ate a rabid raccoon.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| May 15, 2001 | - A 15-year-old boy in Savannah, Georgia, pled guilty to charges of conspiracy, bomb possession, and making terroristic threats.
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