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State Briefs
Police arrest man
In kidnapping case
ALPHARETTA (AP)
- Police have arrested a
man in the kidnapping of a
woman earlier this week.
Joseph Almond was taken
into custody Thursday night
while being treated at North
Fulton Regional Hospital.
Police said they were noti
fied after a hospital staff
member recognized Almond
from news reports. Almond
was taken into custody with
out incident, police said.
Almond is suspected of
kidnapping a woman at gun
point from an office building
parking lot Tuesday. Police
chased the vehicle with the
suspect and the woman in it
until the suspect jumped out
and escaped into the woods.
Thursday’s arrest came
less than an hour after
authorities searched
Almond’s apartment in
Sandy Springs. There, detec
tives found enough evidence
to charge Almond in the kid
napping.
Almond has also been
charged with armed robbery,
aggravated assault, using a
firearm during the commis
sion of a felony, fleeing and
attempting to elude, posses
sion of cocaine and posses
sion of marijuana.
Other charges may be
pending in other jurisdic
tions, police said.
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Houston Daily Journal Will Be Closed Monday
September 4. We Will Re-open On Tuesday
September sth @ 8:00 Am.
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Hispanics set to
surpass blacks
ATLANTA (AP)
Hispanics will outpace blacks
as the most powerful minor
ity consumers in the country
next year, according to a new
study from the University of
Georgia.
Still, the vast majority of
states will continue to see
blacks as their strongest
minority market because the
nation’s Hispanic population
is concentrated in a hand
ful of areas, study author
Jeffrey Humphreys said.
Hispanics are expected to
have buying power of $863.1
billion, compared to black
buying power of $847 bil
lion in 2007. Hispanics _ the
nation’s largest and fastest
growing ethnic minority
will comprise about 8.5 per
cent of the nation’s total
consumer market next year.
“Hispanic buying power
is a good leading indica
tor of political power,” said
Humphreys, director of the
Selig Center for Economic
Growth at the university.
“Now that Hispanics have
the strongest buying power,
that suggests Hispanic
political clout will be on the
upswing as well.”
The annual study by
the school’s Terry College
of Business and the Selig
Center bases buying power
on a person’s disposable
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clouds. Highs in the
low 90s and lows in
the upper 60s.
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Lawyers want
dentist trial moved
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga.
(AP) - Lawyers for a dentist
accused of killing his wife
in their Gwinnett County
home in December 2004
have asked that his trial be
moved out of the suburban
Atlanta county.
Jury selection is to begin
next Thursday in the case
of Barton Corbin, who also
is accused of the 1990 kill
ing of his college girlfriend,
Dorothy “Dolly” Hearn, in
Augusta.
That case was reopened
after Jennifer Corbin’s
death.
Both deaths initially were
believed to be suicides.
Corbin’s attorneys, Bruce
Harvey and David Wolfe,
maintain that Corbin is
innocent in both cases.
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Bush focuses Ga. trip on
Burns, war on terrorism
By BEN EVANS
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Two
former Republican congress
men have the best shots of
ousting U.S. representatives
from Georgia this fall, but
when President Bush vis
its the state next week he’ll
be stumping for only one of
them.
Max Burns could get a
six-figure boost in fundrais
ing when Bush visits the
Savannah area on his behalf
Thursday in the most pop
ulous part of Democratic
Rep. John Barrow’s eastern
Georgia district. Burns is
trying to win back his old
seat, two years after Barrow
narrowly upset him.
While the president also is
planning a speech in Atlanta
the same day, it appears that
Mac Collins - the state’s
other former GOP repre
sentative seeking a return
to Congress - will have to
watch from the sidelines.
Bush has no plans next
week for a stop in Macon
or elsewhere in the cen
tral Georgia district that
Collins is trying to win
from Democratic Rep. Jim
Marshall. And it’s not that
Collins couldn’t use Bush’s
help. The campaigns’ most
recent finance reports, filed
in July, show Marshall had
$1.2 million in the bank ver
sus less than SBOO,OOO for
Collins.
National Republicans have
pegged Burns’ and Collins’
challenges as potential
bright spots in an election
year that looks increasingly
gloomy for the party.
Although plenty of time
remains for another visit
by Bush to the Peach State
before the Nov. 7 elections,
Georgia political observ
ers say the White House’s
schedule could signal that
national Republicans now
view Burns’ race against
Barrow as their best shot in
the state.
“One can certainly sus
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2006 ♦
pect that there are con
clusions being made that
the Marshall-Collins race
is the much tougher race
for the Republicans,” said
Mike Digby, political sci
ence professor at Georgia
College & State University
in Milledgeville, which is in
Barrow’s district but within
miles of Marshall’s district.
“There may be thoughts
that they don’t want to
waste the president’s time
and prestige in a race where
the chance of success is not
high,” Digby said, referring
to Collins’ bid to unseat
Marshall.
A Collins campaign spokes
man and national party
officials cautioned against
reading too much into the
president’s schedule.
“I can tell you that the
Republican leadership from
one side to the other is excit
ed about both of these races.
We believe they’re both excel
lent pickup opportunities,”
said Ed Patru, spokesman
for the National Republican
Congressional Committee.
Collins spokesman Bill
Hagan said the president
has a standing invitation
to visit on Collins’ behalf,
and added that he wouldn’t
be surprised to see another
Bush trip to Georgia as the
election draws closer. Several
national Republican lead
ers already have visited the
district recently, including
Energy Secretary Samuel
Bodman and House Speaker
Dennis Hastert of Illinois.
Vice President Dick Cheney
campaigned there for Collins
last year.
“This is one of those parts
of the country where it’s a
good thing to have the pres
ident come down,” Hagan
said. “He’s welcome any day
of the week.”
While Bush may not stump
in the district that Collins is
trying to win, that doesn’t
necessarily mean Collins
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