There are few things as quintessentially Deep South as a Georgia peach, whose image appears on state license plates, “Welcome to Georgia” billboards, and road signs. There’s just one problem: Blueberries are Georgia’s most lucrative fruit crop, by far. In a little-noticed development, the value of blueberry production in Georgia… …read more
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Former Associated Press foreign correspondent George McArthur, who reported all over the world and spent years in Saigon covering the Vietnam war, has died. He was 88.
His wife, Eva Kim McArthur said he died Friday night in a hospice in Fairfax County, Va., of complications from a stroke.
Born in the Deep South, McArthur was one of several youthful AP staffers first dispatched to Seoul after communist North Korea‘s invasion of South Korea in 1950. He later reported from Paris, Cairo and Manila, serving as AP bureau chief at the latter two posts.
He later reported on the Vietnam War for the AP as a reporter and as Saigon bureau chief, and for the Los Angeles Times from 1969 until Saigon fell to invading North Vietnamese troops in 1975.
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By Kevin Spak The severe storm system sweeping through the Deep South has now killed at least three people and left tens of thousands without power as it makes its way toward the Carolinas and the East Coast, the AP reports. After wreaking havoc in Missouri and Arkansas on Wednesday, the storm swept…
From: http://www.newser.com/story/166122/3-dead-as-storm-sweeps-south.html
A powerful spring storm that brought tornadoes, hail and high winds to the Deep South after socking the Midwest is making its way toward the Carolinas early Friday, with three deaths blamed on the rough weather and thousands of people without power.
The storm marched from Louisiana to Georgia on Thursday, causing major damage to parts of Mississippi, where a twister was spotted and one person was killed. Tennessee authorities late Thursday declared a state of emergency after a tornado was reported in Monroe County, in the southeastern part of that state.
While tornado watches for the Atlanta area had been lifted by early Friday, they remained in effect in for parts of the Carolinas.
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