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6-time All-Star McCann set to come off DL Monday
Atlanta's six-time All-Star catcher Brian McCann will come off the disabled list on Monday when the Braves open a series in Cincinnati. McCann had surgery to repair a torn labrum in his right shoulder last October. Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said after Sunday's 9-4 win over the Mets that McCann ...
Player safety at center of "Heads Up Football"
When Atlanta Falcons President Rich McKay spoke Saturday to dozens of youth football officials about better protecting players, it wasn't just the health of the players at stake. The well-being of football might be on the line. As information has surfaced about long-term dangers of head injuries, particularly when an ...
Manda meat products returning to store shelves
Manda Fine Meats' deli and specialty meat products are returning to store shelves this weekend. The Baton Rouge meat packing company said in a news release that it expects distribution to be near normal within a few weeks, The Advocate (http://bit.ly/18CaCXs) reported. Manda recalled nearly 490,000 pounds of products made ...
Georgia bat population under threat
Some evenings, Frank Bibin takes a chair, sets it under the pecan trees that grow outside his home and makes himself comfortable. In one hand he holds a flashlight; the other grasps a device no larger than a cell phone. He waits. When shadowy figures begin darting among the leaves ...
Atlanta funeral scheduled for Kris Kross rapper
Funeral services are planned next week in Atlanta for former Kris Kross rapper Chris Kelly, who was found dead in his home from a possible drug overdose. Murray Brothers Funeral Home in Atlanta confirmed Saturday that it will hold a public viewing for Kelly throughout the afternoon and evening Wednesday. ...
Pacers finish off Hawks, win Game 6 81-73
The Indiana Pacers packed for an extended trip. Good call. George Hill and David West each scored 21 points and the Pacers withstood a furious Atlanta comeback in the fourth quarter, beating the Hawks 81-73 on Friday night to close out the opening-round playoff series four games to two. After ...
Witherspoon pleads no contest, fined after arrest
Reese Witherspoon pleaded no contest to a disorderly conduct charge and paid a $100 fine after berating a state trooper in Atlanta while her husband was given a sobriety test, an embarrassing exchange caught on a dashboard camera after the usually squeaky-clean Hollywood star had what she called "one too ...
Brunswick port handles its 1st Toyota auto exports
Georgia's seaport in coastal Brunswick has moved its first shipment of American-made Toyota vehicles being exported overseas. The Georgia Ports Authority says a cargo ship loaded with Toyota Venzas set sail Thursday from Brunswick for markets in Russia and the Ukraine. That adds Toyota to 20 other automakers using the ...
Video shows Witherspoon getting irate amid arrest
The website TMZ has posted videos from a police dashboard camera of actress Reese Witherspoon's arrest in Atlanta on a disorderly conduct charge on the night of April 19. Her husband, Hollywood agent Jim Toth, was being given a field sobriety test following a traffic stop. Here's a transcript of ...
Students re-enact 1963 march against segregation
Fifty years ago, Birmingham leaders used fire hoses, police dogs and jailings to stop waves of students who marched out of a church and on to downtown streets seeking equal rights for blacks. Thursday, more than 1,000 students recreated that landmark demonstration, bringing tears to the eyes of 65-year-old Ronald ...
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