Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denies allegations that he smokes crack cocaine as he speaks to the media at Toronto City Hall on Friday, May 24, 2013. Close allies released a letter Friday urging the mayor to address a purported video that apparently shows him smoking crack cocaine. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Michelle Siu)
TORONTO (AP) — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denied that he smokes crack cocaine and said he is not an addict, breaking a week of silence over reports of a video purportedly showing him using the drug. Critics were not appeased, with one city councilor questioning whether the mayor told "the whole truth" and another calling on him to resign.
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When Thomas Osborne accepts his diploma and turns his tassel, becoming an alumnus of Pepperell High School on Saturday, it will be just another turning point in the long, harrowing road tha...
A Cedartown woman wanted on a probation violation is now facing additional drug charges after police found cocaine on her when she was arrested, according to Floyd County Jail reports.
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Those who died in service of their country will be remembered this Memorial Day at Memorial Circle in Shannon. People will gather at noon Monday at the Brighton Monument to honor fallen America...
East title series shifts to Indy, knotted at 1-1 MIAMI (AP) — Chris Bosh stood up in a relatively quiet Miami Heat locker room and offered a concise, blunt and accurate assessment of where things stand so far in the Eastern Conference finals.
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Fans of the Ridgeland Panthers football team got plenty to see during Thursday night's annual Black and Silver spring game at Bowers and Painter Field.
Calhoun senior Lacey Mullinax (seated, center) signs a cheerleading scholarship with Gardner-Webb (Boiling Springs, N.C.) on Monday. Mullinax will be a football, basketball and competition cheerleader
Spectators at the sixth annual Rome River Jam music festival at Ridge Ferry Park kept Rome police busy Saturday.
Reports from the Rome Police Department indicate that officers working detail at the...
The task of forming a list of possible projects to be funded by a 1-cent special purpose, local option sales tax begins this week. Members of the Rome-Floyd SPLOST Citizens Advisory Committee will ...
Jade Wells stood at the front of the lunch line Wednesday, serving food to students and alumni of the Floyd County Education Center at its farewell luncheon. Wells, 16, graduated last week from th...
Rome and Floyd County schools all recorded graduation rates for 2012 above the state average, and most saw an increase from 2011, according to figures provided Tuesday by the Georgia Department o...
ATLANTA — A majority of Georgians oppose allowing students who have concealed-weapons permits to carry guns on college campuses, according to a survey released Tuesday. The poll also shows half th...
ATLANTA (AP) — A national atheist group said Monday that it will donate its literature for use in cabins and lodges in Georgia's state parks after the governor's recent decision to allow Bibles the...
The task of narrowing down more than 40 project requests estimated at almost $180 million belongs now to the SPLOST Citizens Advisory Committee.
Meeting at the Emergency Operations Center, the 12-...