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A hazmat crew and police K-9s were called to U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter’s office in Savannah on Monday morning after staffers there reported receiving a suspicious letter. Nothing alarming was immediately found, officials said.
Savannah Fire & Emergency Services responded to the Republican congressman’s southside office shortly after 10 a.m. to conduct air quality tests.
Hazmat crews testing the air quality around the envelope — which reportedly had some type of powder on or in it — found conditions to be normal, said Mark Keller, Savannah Fire spokesman.

Chatham County Hospital Authority officials plan to meet this week with their counterparts from Novant Health to discuss lease changes needed to complete a strategic partnership agreement for Memorial University Medical Center.
“We’re there to protect this safety net,” said Don Waters, chairman of the authority board. “The mission — that’s the heart of it.”

Liz Murray is a Harvard graduate, a best-selling author, and the mother of two. She also is a leading voice for homeless youth.

MILWAUKEE — Donald Trump on Sunday called for John Kasich to drop out

CAIRO — Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham sought to reassure the Arab world Sunday over the prospect of Donald Trump becoming president, saying in Cairo that Congress would continue to play a primary role in foreign policy, “regardless of what Mr. Trump says or does.”

CHICAGO — Heart failure patients with clogged arteries have a better chance of surviving 10 years if they get bypass surgery plus medicine rather than just drugs alone, according to an international study.
Earlier results from the same research raised questions about the benefits of bypass versus medicine alone, but researchers say the long-term evidence clearly favors the surgery.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Edwin Shifrin’s family knew he successfully escaped from a Nazi prison camp during World War II, but it wasn’t until one of his children started digging into his wartime past that they learned the details of the clever escape.