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Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
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WLBB (1330 AM, "Newstalk 1330/ FM 106.3") is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format.Licensed to Carrollton, Georgia, United States, it serves the Carrollton area.
On August 21, 1995, Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529, an Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia flying from Atlanta to Gulfport, crashed in the community of Burwell between the cities Bowdon, Georgia and Carrollton, Georgia. 9 of the 29 passengers and crew on board were killed as a result of the accident.
The boundaries of Carroll County were created by the Georgia General Assembly on June 9, 1826, but the county was not named until December 14, 1826. It was named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton, at that time the last surviving signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, as was Carrollton, the county seat. [4]
June 24, 1978 56 Heart attack [149] Bakersfield, California: U.S. Bill Thomas: January 3, 1973 September 2, 1921 Los Angeles, California: 95th (1977–1979) Ralph Metcalfe Democratic Illinois (1st district) October 10, 1978 68 Heart attack [150] Chicago, Illinois: U.S. Bennett M. Stewart: January 3, 1971 May 29, 1910 Atlanta, Georgia: 95th ...
Amy's Law is a Georgia state law passed in response to outrage generated when a twelve-year-old boy convicted of murdering Amy Yates was sentenced to two years in juvenile prison, the maximum penalty allowed for minors in Georgia at the time.
On October 16, 2023, Leonard Cure, a 53-year-old black American man, was fatally shot during a physical struggle by Sheriff's Deputy Buck Aldridge in Camden County, Georgia, after being pulled over for speeding. Cure had been exonerated in 2020 after being wrongfully convicted of armed robbery in Florida in 2003.