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Friday's Scores
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North Carolina Education Lottery results
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Here are the winning numbers selected Friday in the North Carolina Education Lottery:...
Ga. lottery numbers
ATLANTA (AP) -- Here are the winning numbers selected Friday in the Georgia state lotteries:...
Activist fights for right to counter recruit
WILKESBORO, N.C. (AP) -- Sally Ferrell bounded from the truck and grabbed a posterboard sign that read: "War is not the Answer."...
Budget cuts ripple through Ga. government
ATLANTA (AP) -- Hundreds of child welfare workers furloughed. State parks shuttered. Prisoners stacked three high in triple bunks. Teen pregnancy prevention dollars gone. Reservoir money drying up. Crime labs closing. State school funding dwindling....
Authorities learn methods of moonshine
TIGER, Ga. (AP) -- Making moonshine is a vanishing craft in the backwoods and mountain hollows of north Georgia, but it's a skill that hasn't completely dried up....
A look at US airlines' domestic capacity cuts
AirTran Airways: Plans for capacity to fall 7 percent to 8 percent between September and December....
As summer ends, flyers brace for airline changes
ATLANTA (AP) -- The grip U.S. airlines have on travelers' wallets is about to get tighter as carriers go ahead with plans to trim their domestic schedules due to the high cost of fuel....
Tennessee lottery numbers
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Here are the winning numbers selected Friday in the Tennessee state lottery:...
Friday drawing
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- These numbers were drawn Friday by the Virginia Lottery:...
Mega Millions winning numbers
ATLANTA (AP) -- Here are the winning numbers selected Friday in the Mega Millions lottery:...
Milledge, Zimmerman pace Nationals
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lastings Milledge and Ryan Zimmerman both drove in two runs and the Washington Nationals beat the Atlanta Braves 7-3 on Friday night for their fourth straight victory....
Nationals 7, Braves 3
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Sun-Dream, Box
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Whitmore, Jones lead Sun over Dream
ATLANTA (AP) -- Tamika Whitmore scored 27 points and Asjha Jones added 24 to lead the Connecticut Sun to a 98-72 victory over the Atlanta Dream on Friday night....
Large sinkhole opens up under Fay floodwaters
THOMASVILLE, Ga. (AP) -- A large sinkhole opened up in south Georgia beneath floodwaters dumped by Tropical Storm Fay, pulling in trees and endangering at least one home in what residents describe as similar to a giant toilet flushing....
Integrity Bank of Alpharetta, Ga., fails
NEW YORK (AP) -- Integrity Bank of Alpharetta, Ga., on Friday became the 10th U.S. bank to fail so far this year, done in by the very business it was built on - real estate lending....
Perdue suspends tax on free drug samples
ATLANTA (AP) -- Gov. Sonny Perdue has suspended collection of taxes on free samples of prescription drugs, saying it conflicts with the tax exemption on prescription sales....
Court differs intent from drug trafficking
ATLANTA (AP) -- A federal appeals court says drug possession with intent to distribute is not the same as drug trafficking when it comes to sentencing a person convicted of the crime....
Braves activate RHP Dessens
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Atlanta Braves added a veteran arm Friday, activating Elmer Dessens two days after agreeing to terms with the right-hander....
