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Housing recovery boosts Home Depot 1Q results
Home Depot Inc.'s first-quarter net income rose 18 percent, thanks to the ongoing housing recovery, despite a chilly and wet spring. Its quarterly results topped Wall Street expectations, and the world's biggest home improvement chain boosted its full-year earnings and revenue forecasts Tuesday. The company's shares rose to a 52-week ...
The 50th Super Bowl goes to San Francisco Bay Area
The NFL will celebrate its 50th Super Bowl in northern California, where its newest, most high-tech venue is being built. That makes South Florida, in the midst of a spat over expensive stadium renovations, a loser for the 2016 game. And Miami took a double defeat when Houston was awarded ...
Ga. infant pinned against wall by minivan, killed
Sheriff's officials in northwest Georgia say a 2-month-old baby has died after her mother accidentally pinned her to a wall. Whitfield County sheriff's Capt. Rick Swiney tells the Dalton Daily Citizen (http://bit.ly/ZbBG0M ) the baby's father was carrying her in a car seat Sunday. Officials say the woman was moving ...
Solar industry pushes for more use in Ga.
The solar industry in Georgia is pushing a power monopoly to expand its use of solar energy as it plans to meet the state's electricity needs over the next two decades. State utility regulators heard testimony Tuesday on the energy plans from Southern Co. subsidiary Georgia Power, which must submit ...
1 killed, 1 hospitalized in Monroe County crash
Monroe County sheriff's officials say a man has died after being partially ejected from a truck when it overturned. Sheriff's spokeswoman Allison Selman-Willis says 56-year-old Michael Wayne Lindler was nearly thrown from the passenger side window of a truck being driven by 46-year-old Jonathan Elijah Watson early Tuesday morning. Authorities ...
Bank worker accused of theft, fiscal exploitation
A personal banker is accused of stealing about $10,600 from an elderly customer's account, Atlanta police said Tuesday. While working as a Wells Fargo personal banker, Daniel Araujo befriended a 90-year-old bank customer and asked her to sign what she thought was a transfer slip from her checking to her ...
Tea party groups protest IRS at Atlanta rally
Georgia tea party activists protested the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service with a rally Tuesday on the steps of the Capitol, calling for an investigation and tax reform to limit the scope of the federal agency. The event was one of several around the country. IRS ...
ACC looks to end 5-decade CWS title drought
This might be the Atlantic Coast Conference's best chance to finally end its long title drought at the College World Series. The league hasn't produced a national champion since Wake Forest in 1955. This season four ACC teams came to Durham for the league tournament that begins Wednesday with legitimate ...
Deal weighs in on atheist materials being donated
Gov. Nathan Deal says he believes in the right of atheist groups to donate literature for use in cabins and lodges in Georgia's state parks just as Bibles are allowed. Deal said Tuesday "if somebody doesn't want to read the Gideon Bibles, they don't have to take it out of ...
Third suspect arrested in Atlanta carjacking
Authorities say the third suspect in a carjacking from three weeks ago has been arrested in southwest Atlanta. U.S. Marshals spokesman Gavin Duffy says Darius Demond McKenzie is accused in the May 1 carjacking and was arrested Tuesday morning. Authorities have said the suspects would bump a car from behind, ...
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