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ATLANTA — The mayor of Atlanta is joining other city and state officials in banning taxpayer-funded travel to North Carolina over its new law preventing specific anti-discrimination rules for gay and transgender people for public accommodations and restroom use.

Dennis King yesterday withdrew his candidacy for Chatham County Probate Court judge in the face of a challenge to his qualifications by his opponent, attorney Tom Bordeaux Jr.
Both men had qualified to run for the bench to be vacated by veteran Probate Harris Lewis’ decision not to seek re-election.
King’s action means that Bordeaux, 62-year-old former Savannah alderman, will run unopposed in the May 24 nonpartisan general election.

MILWAUKEE — Republican Ted Cruz and Democrat Bernie Sanders are angling for victorie

The city of Savannah may use its condemnation powers to acquire property alo

They couldn’t say where and they couldn’t say when, but U.S. Postal Service officials hosting a public meeting in Pooler on Monday said one thing is for certain — they will be relocating the city’s post office to a larger space.

Historic Savannah Foundation, the city’s nonprofit historic preservation organization, has partnered with a historic preservation class from Savannah Technical College in a last minute effort to document an endangered structure at 1811 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

WASHINGTON (AP) — For months Donald Trump has dominated the political scene like no other. But listen to endangered Senate Republicans as they campaign for re-election and you might not even know he exists.

SLINGER, Wis. — It’s Friday night at the Nite Owls Tavern. There’s basketball on the TVs, beer and brandy Old Fashioneds in the glasses, fried fish on the plates — and good-natured conversation that largely eschews the presidential election that seems so far from this cozy, small-town watering hole.
But conflicting opinions are clear when the question is posed: Which of the candidates would be the best drinking companion?

FRANKFURT, Germany — A leak of 11.5 million documents from a Panama-based law firm offers a glimpse into the shadowy world where the rich and powerful hide their money, raising sharp questions about the use of shell companies that obscure the identities of their true owners.