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WASHINGTON — Still reeling from attacks in Brussels and Paris, world leaders are wrestling this week with the chilling prospect of the Islamic State group or other extremists unleashing a nuclear attack on a major Western city.

The Chatham County Commission on Friday will consider putting into practice some of the changes they approved when they adopted a new police merger agreement with the city of Savannah in February.
Among the provisions in the contract is a return of oversight of the animal control department to Chatham County. The document calls for the county to take up operations of animal control at the start of its next fiscal year on July 1.

Port Wentworth council members and city officials spent most of Monday trying to balance city wants and needs at the first of several budget workshops.

The family of an 86-year-old Savannah woman who was a Holocaust survivor has sued Azalealand Nursing Home Inc. for not providing proper care for her emotional issues during her several-week-long stay there.
Ruth Vagi was admitted to the nursing home from Memorial University Medical Center on Feb. 13, 2014, the suit alleged. She died on March 7, 2014, of unrelated causes during transport to another nursing home facility, according to attorney Brian Krapf, who filed the suit in Chatham County State Court.

Panel holds clemency hearing for Georgia death row inmate
ATLANTA — A Georgia death row inmate scheduled to die this week has grown into a quiet man who has a positive effect on others and bears little resemblance to the teenager who helped beat a man to death two decades ago, his lawyers argue.

U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson said Wednesday that Georgia’s governor “did the right thing” by vetoing a proposed religious-exemptions law opposed by major corporations, though he said conservatives angered by the decision have every right to voice their outrage.
Isakson, a Republican seeking re-election this year, spoke to reporters at the Savannah headquarters of business jet manufacturer Gulfstream. The two-term senator is trying to help the company win a big contract to replace the Air Force’s aging radar surveillance planes.

The project took about 11 years, but the city of Savannah finally has begun

Savannah Fire Capt. Steve Floyd says he’s always loved being a firefighter. That’s why he joined the profession more than 30 years ago when he was just 19.

“I do not want to be this guy that just sold a bunch of cars.”

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Three first-graders in Alaska's largest city plotted to kill a fellow student with silica gel packets that the girls believed was poison and have been disciplined but not charged with any crime, authorities said Wednesday.