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A semi truck sits on Interstate 16 at the scene of a multi-vehicle pile up on the Interstate, near Jeffersonville, Ga., Wednesday Feb. 6, 2013. More than two dozen vehicles collided in a fiery pileup on the foggy Georgia interstate on Wednesday morning, killing at least three people and leaving several others hurt, officials said. A total of 27 vehicles were involved in four separate accidents around 8:10 a.m., the Georgia State Patrol said in a news release. (AP Photo/The Courier Herald, Malisa Sanders)

Fog causes fiery Interstate pileup, 3 dead

Last updated Wednesday, February 6, 2013 - 2:49pm

MONTROSE, Ga. -- More than two dozen cars, pickup trucks and tractor-trailers collided Wednesday morning in a fiery pileup on a foggy Georgia interstate, killing at least three people and sending nine others to a hospital, officials said.

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U.S. companies are expected to create more than 115,000 truck driver jobs per year through 2016.

Utah-based trucking company can't find enough drivers

Russ Bynum The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - 2:37pm

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Tribe Transportation is a growing company that just added 10 new trucks to its tractor-trailer fleet. The problem has been hiring people to drive them.

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FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2011 file photo, U.S. Army Sgt. Anthony Peden, 25, left, and Pvt. Isaac Aguigui, 19, are led away in handcuffs after appearing before a magistrate judge at the Long County Sheriffs Office in Ludowici, Ga. Prosecutors say a murder case against the four soldiers in Georgia has revealed they formed an anarchist militia within the U.S. military with plans to overthrow the federal government, The Associated Press reports Monday, Aug. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Lewis Levine, File)

Murder investigation uncovers terrorist plot

Russ Bynum The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, August 27, 2012 - 2:33pm

LUDOWICI, Ga. — Four Army soldiers based in southeast Georgia killed a former comrade and his girlfriend to protect an anarchist militia group they formed that stockpiled assault weapons and plotted a range of anti-government attacks, prosecutors told a judge Monday.

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Soldier found guilty of murder in Iraq shootings

Russ Bynum The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, June 12, 2012 - 3:06pm

FORT STEWART, Ga. -- A Georgia soldier was found guilty Tuesday of killing his two Army roommates in 2010 at a U.S. base camp in Iraq, where prosecutors said he opened fire hours after complaining that the victims had let their room get too messy.

A court-martial found Spc. Neftaly Platero guilty of two counts of premeditated murder and one count of attempted premeditated murder after a weeklong trial. The verdict was reached by a five-member jury of Army officers and noncommissioned officers after 90 minutes of deliberations Tuesday.

The case moved directly to the sentencing phase. Platero faces life in prison with or without the possibility of parole. Fort Stewart commanders earlier decided not to pursue it as a death penalty case.

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Emergency workers tend to a JetBlue captain that had a "medical situation" during a Las Vegas-bound flight from JFK International airport, Tuesday, March 27, 2012, in Amarillo, Texas. Passengers said the pilot screamed that Iraq or Afghanistan had planted a bomb on the flight, was locked out of the cockpit, and then tackled and restrained by passengers. The pilot who subsequently took command of the aircraft elected to land in Amarillo at about 10 a.m., JetBlue Airways said in a statement. (AP Photo/Steve Douglas)

Friends baffled by JetBlue pilot's unraveling

Paul J. Weber, Russ Bynum The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 11:00am

RICHMOND HILL, Ga. -- No one recalls JetBlue Airways captain Clayton Osbon coming unhinged before. Not the airline that let him fly for 12 years, the neighbors in his secluded waterfront community or the friends he tried selling weight-loss shakes to on the side.

Now federal prosecutors have charged Osbon following his bizarre unraveling aboard Flight 191 to Las Vegas, describing in court records a midair breakdown they say began with cockpit ramblings about religion and ended with passengers wrestling him to the cabin floor.

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(STEPHEN MORTON/The Associated Press) Friends and supporters chant in the street and block traffic outside Jonesville Baptist Church following the funeral of Troy Davis in Savannah, Ga., Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011. Davis died by injection for the 1989 slaying of off-duty Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail.

Troy Davis mourned as a martyr by 1,000 in Ga.

Russ Bynum The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, October 1, 2011 - 4:33pm

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Sent to death row 20 years ago as a convicted cop killer, Troy Davis was celebrated as “martyr and foot soldier” Saturday by more than 1,000 people who packed the pews at his funeral and pledged to keep fighting the death penalty.

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