Savannah Morning News
- Boy, 7, drowns in Myrtle Beach hotel's 'lazy river'
Monday - 04/11/2016 - 11:31 AMMYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Authorities say a Georgia child has died after being pulled from a Myrtle Beach hotel's water attraction.Horry County Deputy Coroner Darris Fowler tells new outlets that 7-year-old London Adams, of Atlanta, died at a hospital after being found in a "lazy river" pool at the Sheraton Broadway Plantation Resort Villas on Saturday evening.Fowler says Adams's cause of death was drowning.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Want to graduate college debt free? Teach in a rural area
Sunday - 04/10/2016 - 08:04 PMCOLUMBIA, S.C. — The teacher shortage in poor, rural districts in South Carolina is so bad, the state is considering offering would-be instructors a way to graduate from college debt free.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- State, local officials add fixes to Savannah area roads
Sunday - 04/10/2016 - 09:57 PMState transportation officials are putting the final touches on the “Last Mile” of the Jimmy DeLoach Parkway and say they anticipate getting this stretch of road open to traffic by June.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- TRAFFIC ALERT: Ga. 204 exit of I-95 closed after accident
Sunday - 04/10/2016 - 05:53 PMPolice officials say that the Ga. 204 exit ramp of northbound I-95 is closed after a driver fled Richmond Hill police, clipped an 18-wheeler and rolled over.Georgia State Patrol is investigating the incident.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Prominent Atlanta man fatally shot in his front yard
Sunday - 04/10/2016 - 04:20 PMProminent Atlanta man shot, killed
ATLANTA — Police are searching for a suspect after a well-known community member was shot to death in his southwest Atlanta front yard.
Multiple news media reports that 70-year-old Barney Simms was found dead in his yard Saturday night with his front door unlocked and black Lexus missing.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How stealthy is Navy's new destroyer? It needs reflectors
Sunday - 04/10/2016 - 04:48 PMBATH, Maine — The future USS Zumwalt is so stealthy that it’ll go to sea with reflective material that can be hoisted to make it more visible to other ships.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- NASA's planet-hunting Kepler Spacecraft in emergency mode
Sunday - 04/10/2016 - 02:36 PMCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA is trying to resuscitate its planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft, in a state of emergency 75 million miles away.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 2 ousted executives defend work at Wounded Warrior Project
Sunday - 04/10/2016 - 01:00 PMJACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Two men ousted from top executive positions at Wounded Warrior Project say their leadership upheld the intent of donors who contributed millions to one of the nation's largest veteran support groups.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - SCMPD INVESTIGATES ARMED ROBBERIES
Sunday - 04/10/2016 - 07:52 AMSavannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department Robbery detectives are investigating two armed robberies that occurred overnight.The first armed robbery occurred at approximately 2 a.m., April 10, in the 500 block of East Bryan Street.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Belgians find elusive 'man in the hat'
Sunday - 04/10/2016 - 12:15 AMBRUSSELS — After nearly three weeks of frantic searching, Belgian authorities announced Saturday they had finally identified the elusive “man in the hat” spotted alongside the two suicide bombers who blew themselves up at Brussels Airport: It was Paris attacks suspect Mohamed Abrini.
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- OBITUARY LIST FOR MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2016
Monday - 04/11/2016 - 06:44 AMToday's obituaries in the Savannah Morning News.For these and past obits, click here.- Mr. Jason E. Adams, South Thompson Comm- Mr. Samuel Davis, Claxton, GA- Mrs. Lizzie H. Givens, Savannah, GA - Ms.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Flannery O'Connor's birth observed with parade of odd characters, street fair
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 1 year after Freddie Gray, police work to heal city's wounds
Sunday - 04/10/2016 - 05:40 PMBALTIMORE — A year after the death of Freddie Gray, a small part of his legacy can be seen at a southwest Baltimore recreation center, where the pounding of basketballs and squeak of sneakers echo off the walls as young black men in shorts and sweats face off.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Syrians struggle to find place to bury their kin in Lebanon
Sunday - 04/10/2016 - 07:02 PMBAR ELIAS, Lebanon — When Saada Khalaf, a Syrian refugee in Lebanon, lost her husband to a long illness earlier this year, she could not find a place to bury him in the eastern Lebanese town where the couple had lived since they fled the civil war back home.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Author Beverly Cleary turns 100 with wit, candor
Sunday - 04/10/2016 - 04:37 PMSAN FRANCISCO — As she turns 100, the feisty and witty author Beverly Cleary remembers the Oregon childhood that inspired the likes of characters Ramona and Beezus Quimby and Henry Huggins in the children’s books that sold millions and enthralled generations of youngsters.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Candidates - even Trump - shift to delegate hunt
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Atlanta Dogwood Festival enters final day at Piedmont Park
Sunday - 04/10/2016 - 12:31 PMATLANTA — Atlanta's longest-running festival is entering its final day at a popular midtown park.Thousands are expected to attend the 80th annual Atlanta Dogwood Festival at Piedmont Park on Sunday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Georgia schools could see dramatic changes in next 2 years
Sunday - 04/10/2016 - 11:21 AMATLANTA — Georgia's education system could see some dramatic changes in the next two years, as Gov. Nathan Deal shifts his first-term focus on prisons and courts to education.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Small town turns on Hastert as details of allegations emerge
Sunday - 04/10/2016 - 12:14 AMYORKVILLE, Ill. — The small town that boasted of the role it played in Dennis Hastert’s ascent from high school wrestling coach to speaker of the U.S. House spoke bitterly of him on Saturday, a day after prosecutors detailed allegations that Hastert sexually abused several members of the team.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In latest claim, N. Korea says it tests new rocket engine
Sunday - 04/10/2016 - 12:15 AMSEOUL, South Korea — North Korea’s latest belligerent declaration — that it successfully tested a new long-range rocket engine that could allow nuclear strikes on the U.S. mainland — leaves outsiders in a familiar predicament.
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- Georgia Wal-Mart worker shot to death pursuing suspected shoplifter
Monday - 04/11/2016 - 10:02 AMLILBURN — Authorities say a Wal-Mart worker was shot and killed by a suspected shoplifter at a store northeast of Atlanta.CBS 46 reports that the loss prevention officer was gunned down shortly after 9 p.m.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Savannahnow.com to get new look, feel
Sunday - 04/10/2016 - 09:56 PMLater today, the Savannah Morning News will unveil its latest digital effort by releasing a brand new savannahnow.com.
Our team has been working for months to improve the user experience on savannahnow.com and we are pleased that we can finally make the site public.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - State Supreme Court to hear suit between Chatham County, Clerk of Superior Court
Sunday - 04/10/2016 - 09:57 PMThe Supreme Court of Georgia is set to hear arguments this week in a civil case between the Clerk of Superior Court in Chatham County and the board that issues his paychecks.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Reports: Panama firm usurped name of Red Cross to hide money
Sunday - 04/10/2016 - 07:23 PMPARIS — The law firm at the center of the Panama offshore accounts scandal routinely usurped the name of the Red Cross and other charities to help obscure the origin of millions of dollars in questionable funds, two newspapers involved in the investigation reported Sunday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Fireworks accident at temple in India kills more than 100
Sunday - 04/10/2016 - 04:26 PMTHIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India — The Hindu temple in southern India was packed with thousands for a religious festival early Sunday when the fireworks began — an unauthorized pyrotechnic display that went horribly wrong.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Voters stand by Trump as champion of political incorrectness
Sunday - 04/10/2016 - 05:15 PMDonald Trump’s inflammatory statements about Mexican immigrants, Muslim refugees and women who get abortions may eventually be his campaign’s undoing, some analysts say.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Georgia schools could see dramatic changes in next 2 years
Sunday - 04/10/2016 - 03:12 PMATLANTA — Georgia’s education system could see some dramatic changes in the next two years, as Gov. Nathan Deal shifts his first-term focus on prisons and courts to education.
Voters will decide in November whether to approve Deal’s proposed constitutional amendment to allow the state to take over chronically failing schools.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - SR 204/Abercorn Street Resurfacing Project Starts Sunday
Sunday - 04/10/2016 - 07:44 AMContractors for Georgia DOT will be installing lane closures to resurface S.R. 204/Abercorn Street between King George Boulevard and Gateway Boulevard in Chatham County.These closures are scheduled nightly from 7 p.m.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- OBITUARY LIST FOR SUNDAY, APRIL 10, 2016
Sunday - 04/10/2016 - 06:49 AMToday's obituaries in the Savannah Morning News.For these and past obits, click here.- Mr. Richard Lee Barger, Wilmington Isl., GA- Mr. B.L. Bennett, Nunez, GA- Eva Gloria Scott Berry, Savannah, GA- Ms.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Water with unsafe lead amounts found in hundreds of schools
Sunday - 04/10/2016 - 12:15 AMTOLEDO, Ohio — Responding to the crisis in Flint, Michigan, school officials across the country are testing classroom sinks and cafeteria faucets for lead, trying to uncover any concealed problems and to reassure anxious parents.
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