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City graduation rate climbs 6 points
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The Carrollton City Schools system is ranked 13th out of Georgia’s 180 school districts in graduation rates, according to data released by the Georgia Department of Education on Tuesday. Carrollton High reached a graduation rate of 88 percent in 2012, with 274 out of 310 students graduating who started high school in fall 2008. That percentage — which places the system in the top 7 percent of Georgia districts — is 6 points higher than 2011’s rate. Superintendent Dr. Kent Edwards called the...
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Local relief efforts under way for tornado victims
by Winston Jones/Times-Georgian
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Local businesses and residents are organizing relief efforts to assist the victims of the Monday afternoon tornado which hit Moore, Okla., leaving at least 24 people dead, including seven children ...
Crossing the Tracks
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Temple High School Principal Karen Suddeth speaks Tuesday to approximately 160 Temple Middle School eighth-graders who will make the transition to Temple High School. Suddeth spoke to the students ...

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    Demo Agan returns as quarterback for the Holy Ground Baptist Academy football team as one of three seniors on the Stallions’ roster. Holy Ground wrapped up spring practice this past week, which marked the first time it had its new middle school program join in on the two-week workouts. (Cliff Williams/Times-Georgian)
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    Quality over quantity at HG
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    There’s been a quality-over-quantity component to the spring for Jamie Perry as he enters his third season leading the Holy Ground Baptist Academy football program. The Stallion coach was encouraged by the effort and productivity he got from his guys during the two-week practice session, he just wishes he had more of them on hand during this busy time of year. “We’re excited. Everything is going well. With what we’ve had here, spring practice is like usual. You’ve got kids leaving early and...
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    Mt. Zion’s T.K. Tuggle, center, enjoys the waning moments of the Red-White Game from the sidelines, which wrapped up the Eagles’ spring practice on May 10 at Mt. Zion Stadium. Tuggle will rarely see the sidelines this fall, as he will be counted on to do a little bit of everything for second-year MZ coach Keith Holloway, playing tailback offensively and safety on the defensive side of the ball. (Cliff Williams/Times-Georgian)
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    Mt. Zion’s Toting Tuggle
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    In just his first year playing varsity football last fall, T.K. Tuggle burst on the scene to make an immediate impact in helping guide the Mt. Zion High School football team to its first winning season since 1996. And upon returning for his senior season, the Eagle play-maker aims to take it one step further and get MZ into the Class A state playoffs, which would end a playoff drought that dates back to the 2005 campaign. Tuggle led the Eagles’ rushing attack with 823 yards and six touchdow...
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    Temple’s Devin Lord will assume the starting quarterback role this season after last year’s starter, Elijah McFarland, moved. This will mark the second season the Tigers have turned to a sophomore signal-caller. Lord saw time last year at wide receiver and on special teams, giving him some varsity experience entering this season. (Cliff Williams/Times-Georgian)
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    Sophomore signal-caller takes reins in Temple
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    For the second year in a row, Seth Rogers is turning his offense over to a sophomore quarterback — this time in the form of Devin Lord. Last season the Temple High School football team turned to then-sophomore Elijah McFarland, thinking it would have a three-year starter under center. A new family opportunity changed those plans and moved the signal-caller to Alabama during spring practice. The situation is not ideal, but the seventh-year coach has faith in another young arm. “We lost our ...
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    Danielle Stephan holds boyfriend Thomas Layton as they pause between salvaging through the remains of a family member's home one day after a tornado devastated the town Moore, OklahomaBy Ian Simpson and Alice Mannette MOORE, Oklahoma (Reuters) - Rescue workers with sniffer dogs and searchlights picked through the wreckage of a massive tornado to ensure no survivors remained buried in the rubble of primary schools, houses and buildings in an Oklahoma City suburb. The massive tornado on Monday afternoon flattened entire blocks of the town, killed at least 24 people and injured about 240 in Moore, Oklahoma. ...


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    FBI Agent Kills Man After Questioning Him About the Boston Marathon BombingMIAMI (Reuters) - An FBI agent shot and killed a Florida man with suspected links to the Boston Marathon bombings early on Wednesday, NBC News reported. NBC said the suspect was being questioned and was originally cooperative, but was fatally shot after attacking the agent. The Orlando Sentinel said a friend had identified the dead man as 27-year-old Ibragim Todashev of Orlando. The newspaper quoted the friend, Khusn Taramiv, as saying Todashev was being investigated as part of the Boston bombings and knew bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev because both were mixed martial-arts fighters. ...


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    U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner pauses as he announces that he will resign from the United States House of Representatives during a news conference in Brooklyn, New YorkBy Edith Honan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two years after resigning from Congress in a lewd photo scandal, former U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner announced in a video message early on Wednesday he is running for New York City mayor. "I made some big mistakes and I know I let a lot of people down, but I also learned some tough lessons," Weiner said in the video. "I'm running because I've been fighting for the middle class and those struggling to make it my entire life. ...


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    Old Time County Fair and Farm Days
    Big meets small when Seth Thomas Mullins, 5, of Madison, Ga., makes way for Levi Huckeba who drives by on his grandfather’s John Deere tractor Saturday at the Old Time County Fair and Farm Days at the Little Tallapoosa Park. West Georgia Two Cylinder Club and the county parks department sponsored the fair, whcih continues today. (Ricky Stilley/Times-Georgian)
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