Monitor Center opens in Newport News with 1200 artifacts
A 30 million USS Monitor Center wing of The Mariners' Museum opened on the 145th anniversary of the ironclad battle. Gov Kaine attended a ribbon cut, the center features an interactive exhibition, a 360 degree theater, and satellite linked displays highlighting the Monitor and Virginia battles.
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Judge calls grand jury actions in Katrina shootings a mess
In New Orleans, a judge criticized prosecutors for forcing three officers to testify before a grand jury that later indicted them in the September 4 2005 Danziger Bridge shootings. The ruling highlights controversy over secrecy and immunity amid murder and attempted murder charges against seven defendants.
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Baseball player dies from Bluffton crash aftermath
Zach Arend an 18 year old Bluffton University baseball player died after the bus crash that killed four teammates a week earlier and injured many others. He had been in critical condition since the overpass wreck in Atlanta. The disaster raised the death toll to seven and prompted funeral services in Ohio towns.
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Grady Memorial Hospital
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Bluffton University
James Grantley
Piedmont Hospital
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Simpson
Atlanta Medical Center
T-Mobile opens 750 job center in Augusta Georgia
T-Mobile announced a new customer service center in Augusta GA creating about 750 jobs. The 78,000 square foot campus on Wheeler Road will hire this spring and open in fall with payroll estimated at 14 to 18 million dollars. Gov. Perdue and officials touted the project.
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T-Mobile
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Peach State
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T-Mobile Wireless
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