Ex-officer cleared of charges in fight
JEFFERSON - Stephen Taylor, who was fired from the Jefferson Police Department last September after he was involved in a bar fight, has been cleared of all criminal charges.
Tax bill clears Senate hurdle
WASHINGTON - Far-reaching legislation to avert a Jan. 1 income-tax increase for millions won overwhelming support in a Senate test vote Monday, backed by an uneasy and unusual alliance between the White House and lawmakers in both parties.
NFL notebook: Robinson feeling better, still not cleared to play
FLOWERY BRANCH - Falcons coach Mike Smith says while Dunta Robinson is "much better" after suffering a concussion, the cornerback still has not been cleared to play.
Bulldogs land Jones on 2nd try
Georgia missed out on Jarvis Jones in 2009 when he was one of the state's top recruits coming out of Carver High School in Columbus, but the Bulldogs will land the linebacker as a transfer, his high school coach said Tuesday evening.
3 firms fighting spill vow unity
NEW ORLEANS - On shore, BP, Halliburton and Transocean are engaging in a billion-dollar blame game over the blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. At sea, they're depending on each other to finally plug up the environmental disaster.
Voter verifying system cleared
ATLANTA - The U.S. Justice Department has given Georgia approval to again verify new voters' identity and citizenship, Secretary of State Brian Kemp said Monday.
Mogul arrested after bombings
LAGOS, Nigeria - Authorities arrested the chairman of a former military dictator's presidential campaign Monday in connection with a set of dual car bombings in Nigeria's capital that killed a dozen people, senior government officials said.
Heinze's header all the Argentines need
JOHANNESBURG - Argentina opened its World Cup campaign with a 1-0 win over Nigeria on Saturday, clinging nervously to an early goal from Gabriel Heinze after failing to convert a number of clear opportunities.
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Mammography gets a whole lot clearer
Granted, digital mammography has been around since 2001, but as with all technology, it continues to advance.
And that's why Jeff Brown, director of radiology and cardiology services at St. Mary's Hospital in Athens, is pleased with the latest upgrade in breast cancer detection technology at the hospital - a new Hologic Selenia digital mammography unit.
"It's made an enormous difference in the image quality," Brown said, adding St. Mary's has had digital mammography since 2005.
In layman's terms, that means the image has greater contrast, "so we're just able to see a lot better into the (breast) tissue," he said. "What we had before was great, but with this, even some of the radiologists and technicians have been amazed at the detail," he said.
Brown, who came to St. Mary's from Rome in May, said the Hologic Selenia comes by way of Hologic, a company he said is on the leading edge of technology, and credits the company for its work in breast cancer prevention as well. The FDA just last month gave the OK for Hologic's 3D digital mammography tomosynthesis system, which will provid
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