AP - Days away from critical decisions on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, Republicans assailed Democratic plans to push the massive legislation through the House without a direct vote.
AP - Thai protesters seeking a change of government turned to shock tactics Tuesday, pouring gallons of their own blood into a glistening puddle at the gate of the prime minister's office.
AP - Hundreds of Palestinians in east Jerusalem set tires and garbage bins ablaze on Tuesday and hurled rocks at Israeli riot police, who responded with rubber bullets and tear gas. The heaviest clashes in months broke out as an American envoy abruptly canceled a visit, deepening a U.S.-Israeli diplomatic feud.
AP - An earthquake east of downtown Los Angeles rippled across Southern California before dawn Tuesday, jolting millions of people awake and putting first-responders on alert.
AP - Tiger Woods said Tuesday he will return to golf next month at the Masters, ending a four-month hiatus brought on by a sex scandal that shattered his image as the gold standard in sports.
AP - Housing construction fell in February as winter blizzards held down activity in the Northeast and South. The decline highlighted the challenges facing builders as they struggle to emerge from the worst housing slump in decades.
by Terrence Dixon,
Some might ask "where is Troy University?, or which campus do you attend?" These are frequent questions asked of a typical Troy University student. Troy is located in Alabama, 30 miles south of Montgomery off of highway 231. Its erractic climate makes the city of Troy so unique. Today it is 68 degrees with clear skies, but just a week ago we had 6 inches of snow. Crazy? Tell me about it!
From a college being founded in 1887...
pictured( Willie Anderson,Dorethia Livsey,Tom Livsey,Dr. McClure,Karen Anderson,Chad Livsey,Jim Steele)
Anderson Livsey Elementary School Opens Its Doors For The First Time Only To The Namesake Families
Here is a story of the merging of the finest Georgia public educational system with a loyalty of a Historic local community, along with a compromise.
Gwinnett County School System is the largest and most successful educating system in the state of Georgia. With over 123 public schools in its domain. Gwinnett County Board of Education reconsidered its gigantic size , when it came to recognizing the county's minority families in 2010.
by Tom Livsey,Not to often does one feel a breeze in a closed house. Not to often do I experience happenings that I have not lived through before, as a former seasoned investment banker and crafty media journalist.
Well this weekend, I experienced a breeze and experienced a happening from a young man that got my undivided attention. His words overwhelmed me ! He reminded me of my youth.
I have seen everything and witness even more. Until I had spoken to a young educated college man named Terrence Dixon. He is finishing his last year at Troy University. His major is in Communication. I know this should be enough for most young black men to achieve, right?
Well after talking to Terrence, he had me in a trance. He talked with vigor and his word rang with strength.
All of his accolades and awards that he has received in his life are too numerous to
In good times and bad, D & K Suit City is where the communities of metro Atlanta turn to for exceptional fashions. For decades D & K has been a fixture in Atlanta, Georgia.
With five locations, they have always embraced and clothed their neighbors, no matter the occasion. Mr. Jonathan Karam manages his family clothing empire. He is the son of Elie and Karen Karam. He's twin brother is named Justin, and he has a younger brother, named Joseph...
Why on earth would a man or woman release sex from their daily lives? The answer is bordom in the bedroom
SEX is only the most intimate pleasure that one can physically give each other free of charge and no interest on the purchase , in these days of economic doom.
Its hard to believe that you can have better sex than when you were twenty. However after that age most people lives become full of stress and other components of life. Sex, simply gets weeded out and continues to become out of reach for married couples from then on, until now.
Before Christmas 2009, I researched numerous computer services worldwide who were poised to help everyone from computer crashes to computer viruses, I initially reported Supportrix, as a final source of all your computer services, worldwide. Apparently, I was wrong.
Supportrix fuc**d me too!
Its been a difficult winter and a bad economy. Its really little to look forward to until the first day of Spring.
Well here is some OurTown breaking news to cheer you up for a while Snellville Folk. Go break your piggy bank and join me March 13,2010 at the Georgia Mountain Fairground in Hiawassee,Georgia...Sara Evans will be in concert. Jimmy Wayne will be also performing his latest hits. Tell your friends and your family, whatever you do , don't miss this show!
Southern states are in danger of losing critical, hard-earned gains in early childhood education the Souths most effective innovation in public education if state legislatures in the region enact substantial cuts to pre-kindergarten programs (Pre-K), according to a report released March 2 by the Southern Education Foundation (SEF) in Atlanta.
March 15 -- Dean Baker, co-director of the Washington-based Center for Economic and Policy Research, talks with Bloomberg's Carol Massar about Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd's plan to overhaul financial rules and the role of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York president.
Phillips-Van Heusen Corp. agreed to buy clothing maker Tommy Hilfiger BV from private-equity firm Apax Partners LP for 2.2 billion euros , adding the brand to its Calvin Klein and Izod lines.
As groups of doctors rushed by, he handed out business cards and chatted with visitors about how the technology developed by his Miami company could help Haiti's amputees.
March 12 -- James Shugg, a senior economist at Westpac Banking Corp., talks about the possible nomination of Janet Yellen as Federal Reserve vice chairman.
Gwinnett County sheriff's deputies didn't have to go far to make two arrests on Saturday. The suspects, arrested in separate incidents, were taken into custody at the jail while visiting other inmates.
Gwinnett County Schools officials on Monday asked more than 300 Lilburn Middle students to be screened for tuberculosis after two sixth graders tested positive for the disease.
State Environmental Protection Division representatives have moved off the site of an underground methane explosion which occurred March 7 on Lawrenceville Highway near Mountain Industrial Boulevard.
The Gwinnett school board will take a detailed look at finances during its Thursday work session as part of its annual oversight of district operations.
A home intruder shot and killed a Gwinnett County man early Saturday morning, police said. Shortly before 2 a.m., a man entered the front door of a split-level home in the 600 block of Adams Landing Court in unincorporated Lawrenceville, and went to a lower bedroom, police said.
BUFORD, Ga. - Yvette Bruno recalls her uncle, Ira Braitsch, as an avid sportsman whose love of the outdoors kept him on the trail of fish or wild game at least four times a week.
More than 100 Berkeley Lake residents packed a town hall meeting Saturday morning for an update on the city's deteriorating dam and the ongoing feud with FEMA over a city-estimated $4 million repair bill.
A woman heading to her stepfather's house was "beyond lost" when she and her 8-year-old son took one wrong turn after another through the backroads of Thurston County and onto a private Puget Sound beach, authorities said Monday.
A 38-year-old father of two was jogging and listening to his iPod when he was hit from behind and killed by a small plane making an emergency landing on the beach, officials said Tuesday.
A lengthy pursuit ended Tuesday morning in the Tolleson area west of Phoenix as a pickup truck driver carrying a load of human cargo tried to evade police.
An earthquake east of downtown Los Angeles rippled across Southern California before dawn Tuesday, jolting millions of people awake and putting first-responders on alert but causing no damage, injuries or power outages.
Police escorted convoys of flatbed trucks carrying piles of sandbags into neighborhoods Monday as the cities of Fargo in eastern North Dakota and neighboring Moorhead, Minn., went into flood-fighting mode.
The national Alliance Defense Fund says a town code that bars religious assemblies in private homes in the Arizona community of Gilbert is unconstitutional.
On-board surveillance video shows a school bus driver was sleep-deprived and didn't stop before turning into a suburban Philadelphia middle school, causing an accident that killed the passenger of an oncoming car, authorities said Monday.
An apparent U.S. missile attack destroyed a suspected militant compound in a tribal region of northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least nine people, intelligence officials said.
