Carrollton, Ga: A blood drive is being held at University of West Georgia for a student fighting a flesh-eating bacteria that threatens her life. Aimee Copeland's left leg has been amputated, and her parents say she will likely lose her fingers as well after the infection spread rapidly through her body. The 24-year-old graduate student has been in critical condition at an Augusta hospital after the bacteria took hold in...
07:40 PM, May 15, 2012
Valdosta, USA: Indian golfer Rahil Gangjee exited early from the South Georgia Classic at the Kinderlou Forest Golf Club as he carded a five-over 77 in the second round here. Gangjee ended with a disappointing 11-over total for two days which sent him back early from the tournament. Gangjee had just one birdie, four bogeys and a double in the Nationwide Tour event. Luke List shot a four-under 68 to...
02:30 PM, Apr 28, 2012
Milledgeville: Police in Georgia handcuffed a kindergartner after the girl threw a tantrum, and the police chief is making no apologies. WMAZ-TV reported that the 6-year-old was accused of tearing items off the walls and throwing furniture at school in the central Georgia city of Milledgeville. The police report said the girl knocked over a shelf that injured the principal. The elementary school called police after the Friday tantrum. The...
11:53 PM, Apr 17, 2012
Kentucky: Rescue teams and residents combed through storm-wracked towns to assess damage on Saturday from a chain of tornadoes that cut a 1,000-mile swath of destruction from the Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico, as the death toll crept up to at least 39 people. The fast-moving twisters spawned by massive thunderstorms splintered blocks of homes, damaged schools and a prison, and tossed around vehicles like toys, killing 20 people...
08:39 AM, Mar 04, 2012
I don't think Iran or Hezbollah is behind the series of attacks that have targeted Israeli citizens and establishments in the last one week. I ...
04:53 PM, Feb 17, 2012
New Delhi: Sources close to the government said on Friday that the Israeli ambassador did not raise the Iran issue at all during his meeting with External Affairs Minister SM Krishna. "Iran was not raised by the Israel ambassador when he met the external affairs minister, nor was it discussed during the meeting. The report is totally baselsess," they said referring to reports that the ambassador had raised up the...
08:31 AM, Feb 17, 2012
New Delhi: Investigations seem to suggest that the nature of explosives used in attacks in Thailand and India, where an Israeli diplomat's wife was targeted, are different. According to Home Ministry sources, while C4, which is a military explosive, was used in Thailand, nitrate and potassium based bomb was used in Delhi. While there is no headway in the investigations in Georgia, there are few clues in India and Thailand....
05:52 PM, Feb 16, 2012
Tel Aviv: The terror attack in India, a botched attempt in Georgia and three blasts in Thailand have prompted Israeli diplomats across the world to be extra vigilant, and a former security official advised them to "sleep with a gun" under their pillow. Being alert is the first order of business, said former Shin Bet official Nimrod Firstenberg. Shin Bet is Israel's internal security agency. Firstenberg, who has been on...
12:08 PM, Feb 15, 2012
Jerusalem: Police heightened their state of alert throughout Israel on Tuesday following bomb attacks on diplomats in India and Georgia. Officials were also trying to determine whether Israelis were the intended target of an Iranian man carrying explosives who blew his own legs off in Bangkok. Authorities in Thailand said the Iranian was responsible for the three explosions in Bangkok, which wounded four people, including the alleged attacker. Israel Foreign...
06:10 PM, Feb 14, 2012
Jerusalem: Israel's prime minister has accused Iran of being behind a pair of car bombings against Israeli diplomatic targets in India and Georgia. Benjamin Netanyahu told a meeting of lawmakers from his Likud Party on Monday that he believed the Iranians were responsible for the attacks in New Delhi and Tbilisi. Two people were wounded in India and the bomb in Georgia was discovered before it went off. Netanyahu said...
07:01 PM, Feb 13, 2012
New Delhi: 'Gargasa' fame Komal Kumar, who made his debut with 'Chamkaayisi Chindivudaayisi' with Nidhi Subbaiah is all set to appear on the silver screen not with one heroine but four in 'Govindaaya Namaha'. The actresses are Parul, Madhulika, Anna Georgia and Rekha. The music for 'Govindaaya Namaha' " aimed at tickling funny bones of cinegoers " has been composed by Gurukiran. All the songs, especially 'Pyar Ki Agbittaithe', have...
08:02 PM, Jan 17, 2012
Washington: Do you know what separates you from a chimpanzee? A tiny bit of 'junk DNA', scientists say. It's known that chimpanzees share 99 per cent of the same genes with humans despite their huge differences in appearance and ability. Now, researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology in the US have found that although the sequence of genes in both humans chimpanzees is nearly identical, the animals have certain gaps...
01:07 PM, Oct 31, 2011
Jackson: Georgia inmate Troy Davis maintained his innocence until the very end, saying he did not kill an off-duty officer in 1989. Davis made his final statement as he was strapped to a gurney. He was executed at 11:08 pm (local time) on Wednesday. Davis told the family of officer Mark MacPhail that he did not kill their son, father and brother. He said the incident that happened that night...
09:26 AM, Sep 22, 2011
Washington: The US Supreme Court has rejected an eleventh-hour appeal from Troy Davis to prevent Georgia authorities from executing him for the murder of an off-duty police officer. The court did not comment on its order on late Wednesday, four hours after receiving the last-ditch request. The filing by Davis' lawyers came after state officials refused to grant Davis a reprieve in the face of calls for clemency from former...
08:04 AM, Sep 22, 2011
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