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A total of 228 seniors received their high school diploma Saturday during Spalding High School’s graduation ceremony at Memorial Stadium.
Amid sunny skies, the commencement exercise kicked off wit...
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Griffin High School’s class of 2013 includes 217 bears.
Griffin-Spalding County School Superintendent Dr. Curtis Jones told the graduates, “For four years, you’ve been a Bear; when you leave, you’...
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With 19 graduates, or maybe more depending on test scores, Griffin-Spalding County School Superintendent Curtis Jones said, “This was the best year at A.Z. Kelsey Academy.”
Jones thanked the stude...
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Griffin High's John Pope in action during a game May 14 at The Bear's Den against Eagle's Landing. Pope is one of 25 local athletes who have signed to play at the next level since last June 3. (John Sullivan/Daily News)
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It is with great pleasure this annual column is penned. It highlights those who have signed during the past school year to continue their athletic careers at the next level.
Every year the numbers...
Spalding High senior keeper Peter Strnad (1) watches a shot sail harmlessly wide of the net during a quarterfinal-round match in the Class AAAA state playoffs May 11 at Memorial Stadium against Alexander. Strnad was named Region 4-AAAA Defensive Player of the Year this past week. (John Sullivan/Daily News)
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Spalding High and Griffin High were well represented on the All-Region 4-AAAA soccer teams released last week.
Named to the Girls First Team All-Region squad were senior midfielder Kristen Argila,...
The Griffin Christian Lady Crusaders volleyball team was the 2012 GISA Class AA state runners-up, finishing 28-3 overall. (File photo courtesy of Hope Hammond)
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The 2012-13 local high school sports season was one of tremendous achievement for many of the teams. It was also a season of firsts for Griffin and Spalding high schools as both schools resided in ...
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(Reuters) - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called sexual assault a "scourge" on Saturday as he addressed graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where a sergeant stands accused of videotaping female cadets in the showers. "Sexual harassment and sexual assault in the military are a profound betrayal - a profound betrayal - of sacred oaths and sacred trusts," Hagel said. "This scourge must be stamped out." His comments came a day after President Barack Obama delivered a similar message to graduates at the U.S. ...
Sat May 25 14:45:49 UTC 2013
By Jim Forsyth SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Two women were killed on Saturday as drenching rains in San Antonio triggered floodwaters so strong they swept cars and a city bus off the street and forced the rescue of some 130 people, officials said. The flooding, which followed torrential rains that brought flash-flood warnings across South Texas, inundated a number of major thoroughfares in San Antonio and collapsed the roof of an apartment complex. ...
Sat May 25 21:24:20 UTC 2013
By Tim Bross ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - Two freight trains collided at a rail intersection in rural Missouri on Saturday, triggering the collapse of a highway overpass when at least a dozen rail cars derailed and struck a support pillar, authorities said. None of the seven people hurt in the fiery crash - two train workers and five occupants of two cars on the overpass - suffered life-threatening injuries, Scott County Sheriff Rick Walter said in a statement. ...
Sat May 25 23:45:14 UTC 2013
From William Ray Fullmer: "My nephew, Sgt. Derek Tillman Roberts, spilled his blood on the sands of Iraq to extend the right to live free to the people of the Middle East. On June 14, 2007, Derek was killed by a roadside bomb in Kirkuk, placed by those too cowardly to face him on the [...]
Fri May 24 14:55:25 UTC 2013
Storm chasers from an outfit called Fast Unit 70 uploaded raw footage of the first 10 minutes of the Moore, Okla., tornado that gives viewers a harrowing sense of what the EF5 twister looked like. Watch that footage here. As cars and trucks zoom past, Chance Coldiron and Justin Cox's camera focuses on the dark [...]
Fri May 24 13:30:06 UTC 2013
The DIY 3-D gun may not be quite ready for prime time. According to Techworld, the police commissioner in Australia’s New South Wales, Andrew Scipione, has issued a warning after his officers tested one of the firearms—dubbed the "Liberator"—and experienced a “catastrophic misfire” (no one was seriously injured). According to the website, the NSW police [...]
Fri May 24 11:48:51 UTC 2013
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