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WEEK 9 Sunday, Nov. 7 Arizona at Miami, 1:00 p.m. Dallas at Cincinnati, 1:00 p.m. Kansas City at Tampa Bay, 1:00 p.m. N.Y. Jets at Buffalo, 1:00 p.m. Oakland at Carolina, 1:00 p.m. Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 1:00 p.m. Washington at Detroit, 1:00 p.m. Chicago at N.Y. Giants, 4:05 p.m. New Orleans at San Diego, 4:05 p.m. Seattle at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m. Houston at Denver, 4:15 p.m. New England at St. Louis, 4:15 p.m. Cleveland at Baltimore, 8:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 8 Minnesota at Indianapolis, 9:00 p.m. Open date: Atlanta, Green Bay, Jacksonville, Tennessee AFC East Team W L...

WEEK 8 Sunday, Oct. 31 Arizona at Buffalo, 1:00 pm Baltimore at Philadelphia, 1:00 pm Cincinnati at Tennessee, 1:00 pm Detroit at Dallas, 1:00 pm Green Bay at Washington, 1:00 pm Indianapolis at Kansas City, 1:00 pm Jacksonville at Houston, 1:00 pm N.Y. Giants at Minnesota, 1:00 pm Atlanta at Denver, 4:05 pm Carolina at Seattle, 4:05 pm New England at Pittsburgh, 4:15 pm Oakland at San Diego, 4:15 pm San Francisco at Chicago, 8:30 pm Monday, Nov. 1 Miami at N.Y. Jets, 9:00 pm Open date: Cleveland, New Orleans, St. Louis, Tampa Bay Week 8  games between division...

Isam Rashied memorized the Quran at age 13. Illnesses aside, Isam has has prayed at a mosque every Friday since he was a toddler. But the 15-year-old says he has hit a spiritual wall at Duluth High School. The Gwinnett County school hasn't been willing to excuse Isam and his 17-year-old brother, Imaad, from their last class period on Fridays for the weekly juma'a prayer required of Muslims. "It's like stopping others from practicing their religion," said Isam, a freshman who until this year attended private Islamic schools that had the prayer.

Last year, I enjoyed the weekly NFL threads, and I thought it'd be a good idea to try again. If the thread get's a decent response. I'll continue posting them. NFL Week 7... WEEK 7 Sunday, Oct. 24 Atlanta at Kansas City, 1:00 pm Buffalo at Baltimore, 1:00 pm Chicago at Tampa Bay, 1:00 pm Detroit at N.Y. Giants, 1:00 pm Jacksonville at Indianapolis, 1:00 pm Philadelphia at Cleveland, 1:00 pm San Diego at Carolina, 1:00 pm St. Louis at Miami, 1:00 pm Tennessee at Minnesota, 1:00 pm N.Y. Jets at New England, 4:05 pm Dallas at Green Bay, 4:15...

A group of prominent Muslim community leaders in metro Atlanta voiced concerns Friday over U.S.-led raids on several mosques in Iraq. They said the raids violated the sanctity of the religious sites. "There was no concern given to places of worship," said Amjad Taufique, a board member of Masjid Al-Hedaya in Marietta. "It's hurtful. . . . It's causing a lot of friction in the Muslim community." Snip... Imam Plemon El-Amin of the Atlanta Masjid of Al-Islam compared the outrage many Muslims feel about the raids to what African-Americans felt after the 1963 Birmingham church bombing that killed four young...

Ex-City Aide Gets Prison Time Officials Probing Threatening Letter Sent to TeenPOSTED: 2:36 pm EDT October 11, 2004 UPDATED: 5:04 pm EDT October 11, 2004ATLANTA -- The former high-ranking Atlanta city official convicted two weeks ago of offering to pay a teen for sexual favors was ordered Monday to serve two years in prison and complete probation. Gary Cox, who had served as the Mayor Shirley Franklin's deputy chief operating officer before the accusations were made, showed little emotion as Fulton Superior Court Judge John Goger handed down the sentence. In addition to serving two years, Cox must serve five...

<p>ATLANTA (AP) -- An attempt to govern protests at the Masters golf tournament last year violated First Amendment rights to free speech, a federal court in Atlanta ruled Thursday.</p> <p>The U.S. Court of Appeals decided the city of Augusta illegally tried to hamper a protest planned by the National Council of Womens' Organizations, led by Martha Burk.</p>

It's difficult not to feel spiritual on Easter weekend, but I'm feeling especially spiritual at present. Admittedly, I've been rather critical of the entertainment value, or lack thereof, during this season's Nextel Cup Series competition. Can't help it. By my skewed standards, it's been dreadfully boring. Parade laps at 200 mph. Matter of fact, I was defending that very stance with several hundred disgruntled Texans via email Tuesday evening when an electronic reality check backhanded me across the jaw. It cut me deep, a point of view direct from a world unfathomable to most of us. Iraq. By nature, judging...

Environmentalist Mike Moody wants to contribute to Georgia's wildlife protection fund, but he's not sure he wants to do it by buying and displaying a license plate adorned with a bald eagle and an American flag.    / (ENLARGE)   Moody has nothing against eagles, yet he dislikes what he sees as a red-white-and-blue symbol of political views he doesn't share.   The 55-year-old outdoorsman runs a canoe and kayaking operation east of Athens on the Broad River and belongs to the river's watershed association. The state's eagle-and-flag wildlife license plate in December replaced a tag that for seven...

The federal appeals court in Atlanta has found that a South Georgia deputy made an illegal search when he uncovered 10,000 pills of Ecstasy after a traffic stop. In a ruling issued Friday, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said there was no lawful basis for the deputy to detain Jody James Boyce long enough to have a drug-sniffing dog brought to the scene. For this reason, the search that found the Ecstasy and two large containers of marijuana was illegal, the court said. "While we recognize that drug trafficking is a serious problem in this country and we...

Another FReeper asked me to post this, which he found on Audi world forum, with permission of the author, who is an independent contractor working in Iraq. It's a nice Thanksgiving story and tells the true story about the job our armed forces and those who lead them have done in Iraq. -------------------------------------------------------- "Thoughts on being here after 2 months (a brief)" So here I am on my final 2 weeks before I leave for America. There was much to learn as well as much to digest here in the dynamic culture that seperates the Iraqi's from the rest of...

It should have been one of the best days of Coranne Megan Nelson's short life. She and her closest friends were celebrating her 14th birthday Saturday evening at the Nelson home in Wray, a small community in South Georgia's Coffee County. Instead, Coranne and four other children died in a bizarre crash when the off-road vehicle they were riding was hit by a car. A sixth child is clinging to life in a Savannah hospital. And a young woman's life has been changed forever. Coranne had taken the other five children riding on a four-wheeler on a rural two-lane road...

Attorney General John Ashcroft told a College Park audience Friday that the controversial Patriot Act is an essential tool in the war against terror. "While our job is not yet finished, we have used the tools provided in the Patriot Act to fulfill our first responsibility -- the responsibility to protect the lives and liberties of the American people," Ashcroft told a private gathering of law enforcement officials. The act, Ashcroft added, provides the tools necessary "to prevent terrorists from unleashing more death and destruction on our soil." Ashcroft's visit to the Atlanta area was one of a number of...

The acquittal of a former Morehouse College student on hate crime charges sets the stage for the next test of Georgia's controversial law targeting such violence. The case, expected to come later this summer in Fulton County Superior Court, involves an alleged racial attack at Little Five Points in Atlanta. A Fulton jury earlier this week found Aaron Price, an expelled Morehouse junior, guilty of aggravated assault and aggravated battery in the Nov. 3 beating of fellow student Gregory Love in a dorm shower. Price received 10 years on each count, to be served concurrently. Price was acquitted of a...

At least 15 witnesses have told investigators that a 911 caller who warned of an impending bombing at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Games sounded like Eric Robert Rudolph, and experts say his handwriting is similar to four letters taking credit for other Atlanta bombings, according to court documents unsealed Friday. The documents -- unsealed by a federal judge in Atlanta -- contain much more evidence linking Rudolph to three bombings in Atlanta than had been reported before. At the request of The Associated Press, the court released an October 1998 affidavit written by federal authorities seeking an arrest...

When the telecommunications executives at the SuperComm show talk among themselves about the future, they rarely discuss a hot new chip or super-fast data connection. Instead the buzz boils down to this: When will things turn around? No one is talking about a return to the boom days for the technology business. High tech's fall has been even steeper than that of the economy. The SuperComm floor offers those who know the most and care the most about high tech's future -- experts in technology and its marketing. In a viewpoint equally fueled by hope and facts, many see early...

Two glasses of merlot put a Cherokee County woman in the middle of a dispute over how to accurately measure whether females are legally intoxicated. The jury in Lisa Bufton's drunken driving case acquitted her last month after her attorney argued the breath analysis instrument used by Georgia law enforcement personnel gives falsely high readings when used on women. The Cherokee County jurors said the Intoxilyzer 5000 should be "further evaluated for gender bias." Bufton's lawyer, Atlanta attorney Billy Spruell, said the Intoxilyzer 5000 is calibrated to men's physiology and the way men's bodies metabolize alcohol. Women metabolize alcohol in...

A Lithia Springs aviator was one of two soldiers captured when their helicopter went down in Iraq. Military officials said the helicopter flown by Ronald D. Young Jr., 26, and David S. Williams, 30, of Orlando, both Army chief warrant officers, did not return from its mission Sunday. Young's mother said Monday night from her home in Douglas County that she had a feeling something had happened to her son. "I've never had such an awful feeling in my life," Kaye Young said. She was supposed to go to lunch Monday with her daughters, but she didn't. "I couldn't. I...

Political correctness is a ruse and a guise to make the world seem perfect. The world isn't perfect. It will never be perfect. People will always have different opinions and there will always be discrimination. Anyone who thinks differently is living in a fantasy world. You can candy up what you say a million different ways. When you decide to look out the window, and see what's going on outside, in the real world, you realize that things are no different if you say something in a moronic way. Being politically correct, to a point, is an admission that you...

Note: Although there is a link to Georgia Outdoor News above, this article was not online and is excerpted from the paper edition. The first of two "Hunters for the Hungry" collection weekends took place November 9-10. Hunters could donate a field dressed deer at one of eight donation sites across the state. The weekend tally totaled 396 deer. A year ago, hunters set a donation record when 418 deer were collected during the first weekend. Hunters last year donated a total of 818 deer during the two collection weekends, a record during the nine year program which has donated...