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Helm ‘in the final stages of his battle with cancer’

April 17, 2012 Express Telegraph

Levon Helm, the legendary drummer for The Band, “is in the final stages of his battle with cancer,” his family said on Facebook.

Olens: ‘Encouraged’ following Supreme Court arguments

March 29, 2012 Express Telegraph

ATLANTA — After three days of oral arguments before the Supreme Court over whether the Patient Protection and Affordability Care Act — known as Obamacare by opponents — is constitutional, Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens

Ga. Senate passes measure to curb pill mills

March 28, 2012 Express Telegraph

ATLANTA — The Georgia Senate has approved a measure aimed at stemming the spread of pill mills in the Peach State. The Senate voted 49-3 in favor of House Bill 972. Under the measure, which

Feds: JetBlue pilot from Georgia charged

March 28, 2012 Express Telegraph

A JetBlue pilot from Georgia faces a federal charge of interference with a flight crew after telling his colleagues “things just don’t matter” and leaving the cockpit mid-flight. Clayton Frederick Osbon, 49, of Richmond Hill,

Court: Pre-trial motion in death penalty case premature

March 19, 2012 Express Telegraph

ATLANTA — The Georgia Supreme Court has upheld a Peach County court’s denial of a pre-trial motion filed by a woman facing the death penalty. The woman — Lillian Walker of Montezuma — argued she should

Court: Perdue should not have removed school board members

March 19, 2012 Express Telegraph

ATLANTA – Former Gov. Sonny Perdue did not have the authority to remove from office three members of the Warren County Board of Education, the Georgia Supreme Court ruled. The court unanimously reversed a Fulton County

Sportswriter Bisher dies

March 19, 2012 Express Telegraph

ATLANTA — Legendary sportswriter Furman Bisher, who covered the likes of Shoeless Joe Jackson and Ty Cobb, has died, ajc.com reported. He was 93. In September, Bisher was inducted into the Atlanta Press Club Hall

‘Black market tobacco sales create unfair competition’

March 16, 2012 Express Telegraph

ATLANTA – The Georgia House of Representatives last week passed a measure aimed at decreasing the sales of so-called “black market” cigarettes and cigars in Georgia. HB 1071, sponsored by state Rep. Penny Houston, R-Nashville,

Statement of Jennifer Little, co-counsel for Andrea Sneiderman

March 15, 2012 Express Telegraph

Statement of Jennifer Little, co-counsel for Andrea Sneiderman: ATLANTA, GA (March 15, 2012) – Andrea is grateful for and relieved by the jury’s guilty verdict and the sentence. Nothing can bring back her husband, but

Jury finds Neuman guilty

March 15, 2012 Express Telegraph

A DeKalb County jury has found Hemy Neuman guilty beyond a reasonable doubt but mentally ill in the 2010 shooting death of a man outside a Dunwoody day care, WSB-TV reported.