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Ken Stanford

Contributing Editor
Ken  Stanford
Social Security benefits to go up by 1.7 percent
The government says millions of older Americans who rely on federal benefits will get a 1.7 percent increase in their monthly payments next year.
8:44AM ( 9 years ago )
Ben Bradlee dead at 93; guided Washington Post Watergate coverage
The raspy-voiced, hard-charging editor who invigorated The Washington Post who guided its Watergate coverage, Ben Bradlee, has died.
8:36AM ( 9 years ago )
Ebola airport checks expand; nurses get training
The federal government is closing a gap in Ebola screening at airports while states from New York to Texas to California work to get hospitals and nurses ready in case another patient turns up somewhere in the U.S. with the deadly disease.
8:33AM ( 9 years ago )
Prosecutors meet to discuss gun violence
A coalition of prosecutors from across the country gathered for the first time Tuesday in Atlanta to discuss ways to fight gun violence.
4:56PM ( 9 years ago )
BCSO awarded $20,000 traffic enforcement grant
The Barrow County Sheriff
4:51PM ( 9 years ago )
Stocks rally; S&P 500 has best day of 2014
The U.S. stock market marched higher Tuesday, giving the Standard & Poor's 500 index its best day of the year.
4:48PM ( 9 years ago )
NGTC celebrates GED graduates
4:45PM ( 9 years ago )
AP-GfK Poll: Most expect GOP victory in November
Two weeks before Election Day, most of the nation's likely voters now expect the Republican Party to take control of the U.S. Senate, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. And by a growing margin, they say that's the outcome they'd like to see.
4:41PM ( 9 years ago )
Hall-Dawson CASA gala set for Nov. 8
4:40PM ( 9 years ago )
One American released from North Korea, two remain
American detainee Jeffrey Fowle has been released from North Korea, nearly six months after he was taken into custody on charges of leaving a Bible in a nightclub, the State Department said Tuesday. Two other Americans who have been tried and convicted of crimes in North Korea are still being held.
4:39PM ( 9 years ago )