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Friday, April 26, 2013  Updated with video; A mentor program that's offered at Sherwood Acres Elementary school has parents singing it's praises.

Friday, April 05, 2013  Official: Obama's budget proposes cuts to Social Security in attempt to compromise with GOP

Tuesday, March 26, 2013  USDA Secretary Vilsack to announce expansion of program aimed at reducing rural poverty

Wednesday, March 20, 2013  Albany Technical College held their job interview workshop Wednesday. The workshop invited students from the business administrative technology and law enforcement technology programs to do mock interviews with local officials in the community.

Thursday, March 07, 2013  Financial aid experts will be available to help college-bound students and their families complete and submit the federal financial aid form at the College Goal Georgia event on March 16 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College.

Thursday, February 28, 2013  Updated with video; Mandatory spending cuts will hit many federal programs beginning Friday unless President Barack Obama and Congress avoid the so-called sequester.

Thursday, January 24, 2013  Fontana Unified School District police purchased 14 of the Colt LE6940 rifles last fall, and they were delivered the first week of December — a week before the Connecticut school shooting.

Tuesday, January 22, 2013  Obama and his aides approached the inaugural speech with a belief that the president had replenished his political strength with his re-election and with his end-of-year deal with Republicans that raised upper-income tax rates on some of the wealthiest Americans.

Wednesday, January 16, 2013  Updated with video; Congressman Sanford D. Bishop Jr. is endorsing a program that set up to give veterans and beginning farmers a shot at starting a business

Friday, January 11, 2013  Updated with video; In our Facebook story of the day you wanted to know if the anti-bullying programs are working in local school systems.

Thursday, January 10, 2013  Erskine Bowles, co-chairman of the U.S. deficit commission, calls failure to agree on a plan to reduce the national debt "the most disappointing thing in my life."

Friday, December 07, 2012  Albany Technical College’s Adult Education Program will hosts its 20th Annual Exceptional Adult Georgians in Literacy Education (E.A.G.L.E.) Awards program on Monday, December 10, 2012, from 9am to 1pm in the Kirkland Conference Center on campus.

Thursday, November 29, 2012  While no one in Georgia won the $550 million dollar jackpot, several players and students did win big from the gargantuan jackpot.

Wednesday, November 28, 2012  Senate Democrats divided over cuts to benefit programs, raising roadblock to any fiscal deal

Saturday, November 24, 2012  Updated with video; Phoebe Putney Memorial's Director of Surgical Oncology, Dr. Troy Kimsey will be heading to Atlanta Tuesday to meet with Cancer Care leaders from across the state.