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Ecreia Laki Perez is being held on $6,000 bond in the Fulton County Jail after allegedly trying to bring a handgun and a stun gun that resembled a cell phone into the courthouse *** The maker of anti-wrinkle agent Botox has reached a $600 million settlement with federal prosecutors and agreed to plead guilty to illegal promotion of the product *** Hurricane Earl was barreling toward the Eastern Seaboard on Thursday with winds swirling at around 145 mph *** Two years after committing to fielding a football team and 97 years after the school's founding, Georgia State will play football tonight. The Panthers will play Shorter, the first date on its inaugural 11-game schedule that concludes with a Nov. 18 match-up against defending national champion Alabama *** U.S. prosecutors have charged the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, in the plot that killed seven CIA employees at an American base in Afghanistan last December *** Crews are expected to try to remove the blowout preventer on BP's ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday. Officials plan to detach the blowout preventer from the well and replace it with a new one, a procedure aimed at paving the way for a final fix *** View Albany Herald photos at www.albanyherald.com Click "Get Photos" to make your selections from the homepage
Two masked teens rob South Cleveland Avenue family
Last Updated: 11:08 AM 09/02/10 - Police advise keeping doors closed and locked and to ask about a person's identity before opening a door.
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GBI, Sheriff's Department round up HUD suspects
Last Updated: 1:12 PM 09/02/10 - Federal authorities say that 80 people across the state are believed to have bilked a federal agency out of $1.1 million. J.D. Sumner, government writer
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Company may give new option for cable
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Last Updated: 11:47 PM 09/01/10 - L2Networks currently provides telephone service for city and county government offices.
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Two left in bid for downtown manager
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Last Updated: 11:51 PM 09/01/10 - The identities of candidates for Albany’s downtown manager position could be revealed following background checks.
J.D. Sumner, government writer (Full Story)
Phoebe Sumter to open in early 2011
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Last Updated: 12:09 AM 09/02/10 - Ground was broken for the Phoebe Sumter medical complex late last year.
Jennifer Maddox Parks, staff writer (Full Story)
Field of Flags set to unfurl Sept. 4
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Last Updated: 11:58 PM 09/01/10 - A thousand American Flags will fly in a lot near the Albany Mall to honor those who served and are serving.
Terry Lewis, staff writer (Full Story)
Natural gas pipe cracked; neighborhood stays safe
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Last Updated: 11:51 PM 09/01/10 - A pipeline maintenance crew cracks a natural gas line, allowing gas to rush out into a Williamsburg Road neighborhood.
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Emergency responders taking classes on preparedness ahead of Atlantic Hurricanes
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Last Updated: 12:11 AM 09/02/10 - Officials have ordered the evacuation of parts of the North Carolina coastline ahead of Hurricane Earl. (Full Story)
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U.S. National News From The Associated Press
  • Oil sheen spreading from Gulf platform explosion
    By ALAN SAYRE 2010-09-02T18:12:53Z
    NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) -- A mile-long oil sheen spread Thursday from an offshore petroleum platform burning in the Gulf of Mexico off Lousiana, west of the site of BP's massive spill....
  • Earl threatens East Coast with weekend pounding
    By MIKE BAKER 2010-09-02T18:12:24Z
    BUXTON, N.C. (AP) -- Hurricane Earl packed winds near 125 mph as it blew toward North Carolina on Thursday, putting the Eastern Seaboard all the way to Canada on alert for a Labor Day weekend pounding by waves, gales and rain....
  • Feds sue Arizona sheriff in civil rights probe
    By JACQUES BILLEAUD 2010-09-02T17:08:27Z
    PHOENIX (AP) -- The U.S. Justice Department sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Thursday, saying the Arizona lawman refused for more than a year to turn over records in an investigation into allegations his department discriminates against Hispanics....
  • Gunman shot as Discovery hostages planned escape
    By DAVID DISHNEAU and SARAH BRUMFIELD 2010-09-02T16:21:09Z
    SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) -- As the three hostages at Discovery Channel's headquarters appeared ready to make a run for it, police said Thursday that a SWAT team officer quickly shot and killed the increasingly agitated gunman who had explosives strapped to himself, ending the four-hour standoff....
  • Risks remain with Gulf well cap coming off
    By HARRY R. WEBER 2010-09-02T13:57:10Z
    NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The cap that ended BP's three-month oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico was set to come off Thursday as a prelude to raising a massive, failed piece of equipment and preparing for a final seal on the broken seafloor well....
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