Don’t make me turn this plane around: 100 kids kicked off flight
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A group of about 100 high school students traveling from New York to Atlanta were thrown off an AirTran flight, along with their chaperones, after the pilot and crew lost patience with some kids who wouldn’t sit down and put away their cellphones.
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Students hold Georgia school’s 1st racially integrated prom
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Almost half a century after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed racial discrimination in schools and other public places, black and white students in Georgia’s rural Wilcox County danced together for the first time at prom over the weekend.
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Gunman dead after holding four firefighters hostage in suburban Atlanta
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A gunman who was holding four firefighters hostage outside of Atlanta was killed during a tactical operation, police said Wednesday.
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Georgia town passes law requiring citizens to own guns and ammo
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A Georgia town has passed a law requiring its citizens to own a gun and ammunition — a measure one councilman says is similar to putting a security sign in your front yard to deter criminals.
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Young muggers shot baby in head while in stroller, mom says
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SWAT teams went door-to-door in a small coastal Georgia city Friday looking for suspects after a baby was killed and his mom shot a day earlier.
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$1 million! Three friends honor long-time pact to split lottery winnings
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All for one, and $1 million for all.
Three long-time chums who made a pact to split the pot if one of them ever won the lottery got their payday last week, Georgia Lottery officials announced on Thursday.
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Boys, 9 and 10, show mom how to perform CPR and help save infant
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A Georgia mother says her infant son is alive today because of two neighborhood boys, ages 9 and 10, who showed her how to perform CPR when the 12-week-baby suddenly stopped breathing.
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Soldier disguised as Power Ranger surprises sons
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Sgt. Daryl Chandler disguised himself as a super hero to surprise his young sons when came home to Georgia from Afghanistan for his first, two-week break in nine months. WXIA’s Jon Shirek reports.
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A 14-year-old was shot and a teacher was injured Thursday afternoon at a middle school in Atlanta on Thursday afternoon, officials said.
Live video from NBC station WXIA-TV showed police, emergency vehicles and an ambulance around Price Middle School, which is south of downtown Atlanta.
This is a breaking news story. Please check back to NBCNews.com for more details.
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Phillip Sailors, 69, a veteran accused of shooting and killing Rodrigo Abad Diaz, 22, in Georgia after he pulled into his driveway was set to have a bond hearing on February 7 but was released on $10,000 bond today, according to his lawyer Mike Puglise.
Young man shot and killed when he pulls into driveway of wrong address
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Rodrigo Diaz, 22, was driving around with his girlfriend and two friends when he pulled into a driveway, thinking they had arrived at another friend’s house, his brother says. But instead he pulled into the driveway of Phillip Sailors, 69, who thought his home was being robbed, his lawyer says.
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Besse Cooper died peacefully at the Park Place nursing home in Monroe, Georgia, according to her son Sidney Cooper. “She got up this morning, had a big old breakfast and got her hair fixed,” the 77-year-old Cooper said. “It’s just like she got up planning to do it.”
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Army Sergeant First Class Scott Faile surprised his wife Tammy and two of their kids this past weekend at the South Carolina-Georgia college football game by walking out on the field for an emotional reunion that’s become a viral sensation online.
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Police moved into a downtown Atlanta park and arrested around 50 Occupy Wall Street protesters who had been encamped there for about two weeks early Wednesday, while across the country in Oakland, Calif., officers in riot gear stood watch after clashes there with demonstrators overnight.
Numerous camps that have sprung up around the country as protesters rally against what they see as corporate greed and a wide range of other economic issues. The protests have attracted a wide range of people, including college students looking for work and the homeless.
Read more about the spreading Occupy Wall Street protests here.
Natalie got an earful (of whoopee cushion) today.
Jony Ive redesigns the NBC News logo.
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