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Prosecutions target illegal gun possession and drug crimes. Six people have been indicted in the Southern District of Georgia on felony charges including illegal firearms possession and drug distribution, while additional defendants have been sentenced to federal prison or await further proceedings after pleading guilty to federal gun charges.

Anniston’s West 15th Street business district, likened to a “city within a city,” will be getting a facelift thanks to a $640,000 state grant.

Ben Judge on America’s use of military force.

It is rightly said that you never get a second chance to make a first impression. From the inception of the Civil War Round Table of Gettysburg in 1957 to

Granddaughter Laci Riley, 15, one of 68 young’uns proudly bearing Enterprise High School’s Big Blue Band flags now, was surprised to learn the 1963-64 EHS band had 65 of us

Legendary frontiersman Davy Crockett was not a native of North Carolina; indeed, he was “born on a mountaintop in Tennessee.” Be that as it may, Crockett’s grandfather once lived in

Some South Richmond streets were named for naval heroes who earned honor and infamy.

No small target at six-foot-two, young Sam Houston wasn’t thinking about getting hit. He was thinking about getting even. Running through a hail of musket balls, spears, and arrows, he

Politician from the Prairie: Harlan Bushfield of South Dakota By Ray Hill Harlan John Bushfield served only a single term in the United States Senate, but he made quite an impression on his home state of South Dakota in a relatively short period of time.  Bushfield rose from a printer’s devil to serve as his […]

Some residents continue a push for a new name for Stonewall Jackson Middle School in east Orlando. An advisory panel recommended this fall that it be called simply Jackson Middle. But some residents are pushing for the Orange County School Board to adopt