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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Brittany Hudson was pregnant, addicted to painkillers and afraid of a Tennessee law that calls for the arrest of mothers of drug-dependent babies. She eventually gave birth without medical help, on the side of a road in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.

WASHINGTON (AP) — World leaders declared progress Friday in securing nuclear materials worldwide but warned of a persistent and harrowing threat: terrorists getting their hands on a nuclear bomb. "It would change our world," President Barack Obama said.

Company says it is still making a movie

It’s been about a month since officials in Chatham County and the city of Savannah jointly approved a new agreement for the operations of the Savannah-Chatham police department. Now the two governments are starting to put the document to use.
As required under the agreement, both bodies this week signed off on a contract with Ohio-based Berkshire Advisors for consulting services meant to determine the true costs of running the department for each entity moving forward.

Effingham County will receive a $100,000 grant for the new recreation complex.

RICHMOND, Va. — When Virginia State Trooper Chad P. Dermyer pulled a woman over last year on Interstate 64 for expired license plates, his gut told him something wasn't right.

A Jacksonville man who originally faced a 120-year prison sentence for firing two shots in the air that didn’t hit anyone walked out of the Duval County Courthouse a free man Friday morning.

From incident reports at the Effingham County Sheriff’s Office:March 10: Hay bales burned on Ardmore Oaky Road in the Springfield area. The owner suspects arson, by people in her deceased husband’s family, who live nearby and were mad that her cows got loose the night before.

The Chatham County Health Department has lifted the advisory for Polk Street Beach on Tybee Island.
The advisory was issued on March 30 after routine water quality tests showed a high level of enterococci bacteria which increase the risk of gastrointestinal illness in swimmers.
Subsequent samples on this northern most part of Tybee Island, at the mouth of the Savannah River from the end of the beach to the jetty, show that bacteria levels are now within acceptable limits.

Savannah-Chatham police department’s Central Precinct investigators