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Yesterday at 7:55 PM  Someone threw a brick through the front door of K&S Foods on Newton Road. They stole cigarettes and fled the scene.

Yesterday at 10:30 AM  BP report blames itself, other companies' workers, series of failures for Gulf oil spill

Tuesday, September 07, 2010  Homeowners will be seeing an increase in their monthly trash pick-up. The Public Works Department is raising the household rate by $1.15.

Tuesday, September 07, 2010  An Albany business owner has been arrested for allegedly selling stolen CD’s and DVD’s over the internet. The Dougherty County Sheriff’s Office says 48-year-old James Vanzant was running a fencing operation out of the Exchange on Dawson Road.

Tuesday, September 07, 2010  Around 7:00am, a customer of the First State Bank of Albany stopped by to use the ATM and discovered that it was gone. Reportedly, a piece of heavy equipment was used to wrench the machine from the ground and haul it away.

Tuesday, September 07, 2010  A former JetBlue flight attendant accused of cursing out an airplane passenger and then sliding down an emergency exit chute is due in a New York City courtroom.

Monday, September 06, 2010  Keeping our homes cool in summer in Southwest Georgia can be a challenge and quite expensive.  We according to a study from the us Department Of Energy’s Berkley Laboratory we should all just lighten up when it comes to keeping our homes cool.  I explain in this week’s Go Green.

Saturday, September 04, 2010  Craigslist appears to have surrendered in a legal fight over erotic ads posted on its website, shutting down its adult services section Saturday and replacing it with a black bar that simply says "censored."

Friday, September 03, 2010  Campbell Soup adjusted profit up 6 pct in the slow soup season; outlook spooks investors

Friday, September 03, 2010  Private employers hired more workers over the past three month than first thought, lifting hopes for the weak economy. But the unemployment rate rose in August for the first time in four months.

Friday, September 03, 2010  Economists are bracing for a weak showing in the August employment report, which is scheduled to be released Friday with the private sector forecast to add a net total of only 41,000 jobs, the fewest since January.

Friday, September 03, 2010  BP says it has so far spent $8 billion responding to the disastrous oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico.

Thursday, September 02, 2010  UPDATED 4:05 p.m. CDT. The Coast Guard is backing off its earlier report that an oil sheen about a mile long was spreading following a platform explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.

Thursday, September 02, 2010  Albany State University kicked off its First and Second Year Lecture Series with a program by United Nations economist Mariangela Lancourt. She believes that educating the next generation about the global marketplace and urging them to get involved is essential to worldwide economic stability.

Thursday, September 02, 2010  3G Capital to acquire Burger King for $24 per share, or $3.26 billion