Ga. barrier a site of previous wrecks
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Catherine Hartman is familiar with the concrete barrier where a bus carrying a baseball team from a small Ohio college crashed last week. Five years ago, she and her husband were in an accident at the same spot after she mistook the exit ramp for a commuter lane.
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By BRANDON LARRABEE  ATLANTA - Some construction alongside the state's coastal marshes would be pushed back 50 feet from the fragile ecosystems under rules approved by the Board of Natural Resources.
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Painful recollections of a bygone eraÂs racism have emerged with the excavation of an old Mississippi mill townÂs pool.
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By Sharif Durhams, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jun. 16--A Charlotte crew is helping in a search to recover the body of a man thought to have drowned after a boat collision this morning in Montgomery County.
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By Travis Fain, The Macon Telegraph, Ga.  Sep. 10--JEFFERSONVILLE -- Twiggs County is about to be open for business in a big way.   A new water tower is up near the intersection of Ga. 96 and Interstate 16. Stacks of big black pipes sit ready for installation.
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By Howard W. French  Where as many 10,000 fishing boats once docked, today only a few bob in a long, serpentine harbor here still flecked with wrecks. All along the shoreline, families that only recently made a rich living from the sea stare glumly at reminders of their loss.
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By Savannah Morning News, Ga.  Jun. 8--HAMPTON ISLAND -- Hampton Island preserve, a vacation community  located off the coast of Georgia, has given a 1977 La France fire truck to the  town of Riceboro.
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An effort to buy floating barriers to protect the nation's fleet from attacks several years ago led to millions of dollars in waste and may have involved criminal fraud by a government employee and contractor, officials of the Navy and the U.S. General Services Administration told a House...
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla. - It took years for many insurance claims to be paid following Hurricane Andrew in 1992...
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By Zane Wilson, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Feb. 8--The state Heritage Trust Advisory Board will discuss compensation for the proposed Interstate 73 crossing of Little Pee Dee River Heritage Preserve when it meets today near Georgetown.
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In Atlanta, there has been a concerted effort to refresh the cityÂs memory of a deadly race riot that was forgotten almost as soon as it ended.
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By Chuck Thompson, The Macon Telegraph, Ga.  Sep.
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By Linda B. Blackford  LEXINGTON, Ky. - Kentucky got very, very lucky last month: Two train wrecks in two days spewed hazardous materials into the air and water, causing evacuations but few injuries.
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By Eric Hanson, Houston Chronicle  Dec. 8--State and federal money will finance the construction of a stone barrier to help block further erosion in the Village of Surfside where the surf has eaten away the sand and put dozens of beach homes in the water.
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A layer of quartz grains found in an east Georgia kaolin mine have been traced to the impact of a giant asteroid that crashed near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay 35 million years ago.    The 54-mile-wide crater left by the meteor, the sixth-largest in the world, has previously been identified as the source of a rare mineral called Georgiaite...
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By Michael A. Bell, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun. 27--BILOXI --  A wreck that left a Mercedes heavily damaged on westbound Interstate 10 has traffic slowed to a crawl near mile marker 43.
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A team of scientists working in Georgia unearths the remains of four primitive human ancestors dating to 1.8 million years ago.