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Body of missing girl found in trash bin

Last updated Monday, December 5, 2011 - 2:13pm

CANTON, Ga. -- A body found in a trash container is believed to be that of a 7-year-old girl who went missing last week from an apartment complex playground north of Atlanta, authorities said Monday.

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Lee's remnants cause twisters, flooding in South

Dorie Turner, Holbrook Mohr The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, September 6, 2011 - 7:29am

ATLANTA — The destructive remnants of Tropical Storm Lee rolled north Tuesday after spawning tornadoes, sweeping several people away, flooding roads and knocking out power to thousands across the South. More rain was expected in parts of Tennessee, where records have already been broken.

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School voucher bills flood GOP-led statehouses

Dorie Turner The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, August 2, 2011 - 9:08am

More states than ever before have considered school vouchers this year, driven by resurgent Republicans who see the lagging economy as an opportunity for a fresh push on one of their most contentious education policies.

As of mid-July, at least 30 states had introduced bills that would use taxpayer dollars to send children to private schools, most limited to poor or special needs children, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. That's compared with nine voucher bills in 2010, just one of which passed -- a special needs voucher program in Oklahoma.

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23 percent can't pass military exam

Christine Amario, Dorie Turner, The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 2:43pm

MIAMI -- Nearly one-fourth of the students who try to join the military fail its entrance exam, painting a grim picture of an education system that produces graduates who can't answer basic math, science and reading questions.

The report by The Education Trust found that 23 percent of recent high school graduates don't get the minimum score needed on the enlistment test to join any branch of the military. The study, released exclusively to The Associated Press on Tuesday, comes on top of Pentagon data that shows 75 percent of those aged 17 to 24 don't qualify for the military because they are physically unfit, have a criminal record or didn't graduate high school.

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Several states stay off charter-school bandwagon

Dorie Turner, Jessie L. Bonner The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, May 11, 2010 - 8:51pm

BOISE, Idaho -- In her small timber town in west Idaho, Christina Williams enrolled her son in the closest public school because she had few other choices near her home.

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(The Associated Press) A store employee straightens out the remaining boxes of Eggo frozen waffles on the shelf.

Leggo my Eggo! Kellogg fights waffle shortage

Dorie Turner The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - 6:50pm

ATLANTA -- Dear Kellogg: Leggo my Eggo!

Kellogg Co. says there will be a nationwide shortage of its popular Eggo frozen waffles until next summer because of interruptions in production at two of the four plants that make them.

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