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Judge brings a lot of heart to bench
Cobb County State Court Chief Judge M. Russell Carlisle Jr. has reason to believe his job places an unusual amount of strain on his heart.As he told the story during a recent conversation in his chambers, he had a heart attack last October while attending a judges' conference at Jekyll Island. The pain was so intense he thought he was going to die.Last Ford Taurus rolls off Atlanta assembly line
HAPEVILLE, Ga. AP - For the Ford plant workers, Friday's cold, rainy weather was appropriate.With little fanfare, the last Taurus sedan rolled off the assembly line as the 59-year-old plant closed and 1,950 employees lost their jobs.The Atlanta Assembly Plant had been producing cars since Harry S Truman was president and before televisions became commonplace and the birth of Rock n' Roll.Paul Newman: A man and actor who never went out of style
The passing of Paul Newman last week, from lung cancer at age 83, is, in a way, the passing of a generation. The Stewarts and Astaires and Hepburns Katharine of Hollywood's Golden Age are gone.So, too, are most of the Pecks and Hestons and Hepburns Audrey who followed.And now Newman, who started out a scoundrel, a rogue and a heartbreaker in the 1950s and ended up a scoundrel and a rogue and a heartbreaker in the 2000s.End-of-month hunger hurts students on food stamps
It's the beginning of a new month, and that's a good thing in America's schools, because life seems to get worse there as a month goes by. Students get in more trouble toward the end of the month than at the beginning. New research suggests that's especially true for students from families on food stamps, perhaps because life at home gets more stressful as benefits run out.Yellowstone Club's money woes traced to 2005 loan
BILLINGS, Mont. AP - The financial unraveling of the ultra-exclusive Yellowstone Club traces back more than three years, to a $375 million loan secured under club founder Tim Blixseth.On the same day the millionaires-only club obtained that loan through Credit Suisse, it transferred at least $271 million to a Blixseth-owned corporate entity, BGI.House panel approves new restrictions for sex offenders
A legislative committee gave initial approval Wednesday to a restoration of provisions to state law that restrict where convicted sex offenders can live and work.However, two lawyers warned the committee that the bill, if it becomes law, would likely be overturned as unconstitutional by a federal judge.The House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee voted 9-4 to approve House Bill 908, sending the legislation to the full House.Chevron fined $9.5 billion in Ecuador environmental contamination case
An Ecuadorean judge ruled Monday in an epic environmental case that Chevron Corp. was responsible for oil drilling contamination in a wide swath of Ecuador's northern jungle and ordered the oil giant to pay $9.5 billion in damages and cleanup costs.The amount - $8.6 billion plus a legally mandated 10 percent reparations fee - was far below the $27.Salacious details launch Brinkley divorce trial
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. AP - A $300,000 payoff to a teenage mistress. Thousands of dollars worth of online porn. Extramarital trysts in the office and his supermodel wife's Hamptons homes.Sensational testimony about Christie Brinkley's estranged husband opened their divorce trial Wednesday, giving the public a salacious peek into the former Sports Illustrated swimsuit model's fourth marriage.Trending Stories
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