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Ga. city council votes to require gun ownership

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 2nd

By KATE BRUMBACKAssociated Press NELSON, Ga. (AP) - Backers of a newly adopted ordinance requiring gun ownership in a small north Georgia town acknowledge they were largely seeking to make a point about gun rights. The ordinance in the city of Nelson - population 1,300 - was approved Monday night

Ga. city council votes to require gun ownership

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 2nd

Severe storms, large hail pummel parts of South

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 19th

By HOLBROOK MOHRAssociated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Severe thunderstorms Monday raked across a wide area of the South, packing strong winds, rain and some baseball-size hail. In Mississippi, authorities reported two people were hit on the head by large hail as the enormous storm front crossed

Wildfire burns outside Great Smoky Mountains

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 18th

PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (AP) - A wildfire burning in a resort area outside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in eastern Tennessee has destroyed more than 30 large rental cabins. The 145-acre fire was first reported around 5 p.m. EDT Sunday in Sevier County, said Ben Bryson, a fire resources

Report makes chilling forecast on Northwest quake

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 15th

By LAUREN GAMBINOAssociated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) - More than 10,000 people could die when - not if - a monster earthquake and tsunami occur just off the Pacific Northwest coast, researchers told Oregon legislators Thursday. Coastal towns would be inundated. Schools, buildings and bridges would

Report makes chilling forecast on Northwest quake

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 15th

Power failure blamed in New Orleans water issues

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 3rd

By JANET McCONNAUGHEYAssociated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Taps in New Orleans briefly went dry Sunday after a boiler's heating flame went out of control in the immense steam generator that powers pumps for the city's water treatment plant. Marcia St. Martin, executive director of the city

2nd blizzard in less than week slams Plains region

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on February 25th

DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) - A major winter storm brought blizzard conditions to parts of the central Plains Monday, forcing the closure of highways in the Oklahoma Panhandle and sending public works crews scrambling for salt and sand anew just days after record amounts of snow blanketed the region.

2nd blizzard bearing down on Plains region

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on February 25th

DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) - A second major winter storm was bearing down on the central Plains Sunday, forcing cancellations and sending public works crews scrambling for salt and sand supplies less than a week after another system dumped more than a foot of snow on parts of the region. National

INAUGURATION WATCH: Of music and second-term plans

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on January 21st

By The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - AP journalists are fanning out across the capital to cover Inauguration Day as part of a running feed of content and analysis. Here are their reports, which will be updated through the day. ___ MANY PATHS TO HAPPINESS Sally Buzbee, AP's Washington