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The tornado that tore through an Oklahoma City suburb destroyed or damaged as many as 13,000 homes and may have caused $2 billion in overall damage, officials said Wednesday.
State authorities meanwhile said two infants were among the 24 people who perished in the twister.
» Full coverage: Oklahoma tornado disaster
» INTERACTIVE: The affected areas
Gov. Nathan Deal has for months argued that the state can’t afford to expand its already-strained Medicaid program to include at least 650,000 more Georgians. His administration, though, is quietly studying ways other states are expanding in case an alternative emerges.
»VIEWS: Georgians on Medicaid expansion
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Throughout the state, Georgians are celebrating high school graduates.
But figures released Tuesday by the state Department of Education show that, when it comes to graduating from high school in four years, the news isn’t all party-worthy.
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NFL owners voted Tuesday to provide the Atlanta Falcons with $200 million in league funding for their planned stadium, and after expressing his appreciation Falcons owner Arthur Blank said he’ll ask his fellow owners for something else, too: a Super Bowl.
Blank, in an exclusive interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution at the NFL owners’ spring meeting, said he expects Atlanta to bid for the 2019 Super Bowl.
Fayette county must end its 191-year-old, at large voting system in favor of district voting to give black residents a better chance of being elected to office, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
U.S. District Judge Timothy Batten ordered Fayette to submit a plan to fix its racially-discriminatory voting structure by June 25. That plan must include the creation of a majority-black district, giving the county a realistic chance of electing its first county-level black official.
Far-reaching legislation that grants a chance at citizenship to millions of immigrants living illegally in the United States cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a solid bipartisan vote Tuesday night after supporters somberly sidestepped a controversy over the rights of gay spouses.
A Chechen immigrant was shot to death by authorities while being questioned in the Boston Marathon bombing investigation early Wednesday after he lunged at an FBI agent with a knife, officials said.
Ibragim Todashev, a 27-year-old mixed martial arts fighter, was gunned down at his Orlando home during a meeting with the agent and two Massachusetts state troopers, authorities said.
Pope Francis' fascination with the devil took on remarkable new twists Tuesday, with a well-known exorcist insisting Francis helped "liberate" a Mexican man possessed by four different demons despite the Vatican's insistence that no such papal exorcism took place.
The case concerns a 43-year-old husband and father who traveled to Rome from Mexico to attend Francis' Mass on Sunday in St.
Filmmaker Jonathan Gruber admits he didn’t know much about the Jewish presence in the Civil War until he was tapped to make a documentary.
Thousands of Jewish soldiers fought alongside their divided Northern and Southern brothers.
Then there was the controversial and influential Judah P. Benjamin, a Louisiana legislator who rose through the ranks of the Confederacy and was later blamed for the loss at the Battle of Roanoke Island.
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