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PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea's highest court sentenced an American tourist to 15 years in prison with hard labor for subversion on Wednesday, weeks after authorities presented him to media and he tearfully confessed that he had tried to steal a propaganda banner.

Health inspection scores for Savannah-Chatham County schools have been updated.View a sideshow here to see the latest scores and grades of Chatham County's public schools. Information provided by the Chatham County Environmental Health Department.

Former Chatham Area Transit Authority executive director Chadwick Reese on Wednesday admitted he participated with a fellow CAT official in a scheme to receive kick-back payments from a service provider who benefited from a rigged CAT contract to clean buses.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Believe everything you hear about St. Patrick's Day in Savannah and you might think hotel rooms are sold out as 1 million people cram Georgia's oldest city to see the Savannah River dyed green.

Good news then bad news then good news coming from the Effingham County animal shelter today.
The good news: Hero, a neutered bulldog-pointer mix that was featured in today’s edition of Effingham Now as being available for adoption from the shelter found a home in the Guyton area.

In an effort to cushion full-time residents from increasing costs, Tybee Island officials on Wednesday signed off on rebates to weekly garbage pickup services for those who currently receive homestead or senior exemptions on their property taxes.
The decision comes just two weeks before a contract with a new solid waste collection provider, Pooler-based Atlantic Waste, takes effect.

Police say a man was shot Wednesday afternoon on Savannah’s east side.
Shortly after 1 p.m., Savannah-Chatham police were at Waters Avenue and Culver Street. There, a man had been shot and taken to a hospital with injuries not believed to be life threatening.
The investigation was in its early stages and no further information was immediately available.

Health inspection scores for food establishments in Chatham County have been updated.Search our database here by name, city, grade or date of inspection for the latest grades and scores. Health inspection scores provided by the Chatham County Health Department. For questions about the scores, contact the department at (912) 356-2160. Scores will be updated monthly.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Prized for its ability to make things super-slick, it was used for decades in the manufacture of Teflon pans, Gore-Tex jackets, ski wax, carpets and the linings of pizza boxes and microwave popcorn bags.
Now, with the suspected cancer-causing chemical PFOA being phased out in the U.S., it is still very much around, turning up in the water in factory towns across the country — most recently in upstate New York and Vermont — where it is blamed by residents for cancers and other maladies.

Police kill 1 in raid linked to Paris attacks
BRUSSELS — Belgian and French police investigating a suspected link with the November attacks in Paris stormed a Brussels house on Tuesday after being fired upon, and killed a suspect armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle, authorities said.
Three Belgian and one French police officer were slightly wounded in the operation.
“We had a lot of luck,” Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said. “It could have been a drama.”