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State Briefs
Voters may get to
decide photo ID law
ATLANTA (AP) - The
Republican who sponsored
legislation requiring Georgia
voters to show photo IDs at
the polls has proposed a new
idea: Let the voters them
selves decide whether they
back that idea.
State Sen. Cecil Staton,
R-Macon, pre-filed a reso
lution Monday that would
ask Georgia voters if the
Georgia Constitution should
give lawmakers the power
to approve “procedures to
verify the identity of elec
tors.”
It’s the latest response to
repeated court rulings that
have struck down the law
as unconstitutional and an
undue burden on voters.
Echoing other GOP leaders,
Staton called the rulings
an attempt by the courts to
“thwart what the General
Assembly clearly wants to
accomplish.”
A majority of Georgia vot
ers would have to approve
the resolution before it
becomes a part of the state’s
constitution.
First, though, it requires
two-thirds of legislators in
both chambers to approve
the proposal to get on the
ballot. While earlier ver
sions of the photo ID law
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trolled Legislature during
the past two sessions, the
most recent vote won just
55 percent support in the
House.
Ex-officer pleads
guilty to bribery
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga.
(AP) - A former Gwinnett
County police officer has
been sentenced to five years
in prison after admitting he
took bribes in exchange for
tipping off massage parlors
that were under investiga
tion .
Christopher In, 45, was
also sentenced to 10 years
probation, District Attorney
Danny Porter said. In plead
ed guilty Tuesday to a single
count of bribery. The maxi
mum sentence would have
been 20 years.
In, who resigned from the
Gwinnett police vice unit in
September 2003, had been
suspected of accepting gifts
in exchange for tipping off
employees of massage par
lors to pending undercover
sting operations.
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In admitted tipping off
massage parlors to pending
raids about 10 times.
He also admitted giving
employees police radio fre
quencies.
The former officer said in
court that he received a set
of golf clubs and a gold chain
for tipping off the massage
parlors, but did not receive
money.
District Attorney Danny
Porter said.
In was working with his
girlfriend, Jane Yun Hi
McKnight, who did receive
money from the mas
sage parlors. Kwang Cha
Yi, the manager of a spa,
told authorities she paid
money to In’s girlfriend to
be warned about the stings,
according to police. Yi was
arrested for keeping a place
of prostitution and obstruct
ing a police officer, according
to arrest records.
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Obituaries
BARBARA JOAN MCGREW
CENTERVILLE - Barbara Joan McGrew, 69, passed
away Tuesday. A funeral mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m.
Saturday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Burial will fol
low in Parkway Memorial Gardens. McGrew was born in
Terre Haute, Ind. Her daughter and brother both preceded
her in death.
Survivors include her husband, three children, son-in-law,
a sister and sister-in-law, 10 grandchildren and six great
grandchildren.
4 in 10 U.S. children born
in 'OS were out of wedlock
ATLANTA (AP) - Out-of
wedlock births in the United
States have climbed to an
all-time high, accounting for
nearly four in 10 babies born
last year, government health
officials said Tuesday.
While out-of-wedlock
births have long been associ
ated with teen mothers, the
birth rate among girls ages
10 to 17 actually dropped
last year to the lowest level
on record. Instead, births
among unwed mothers rose
most dramatically among
women in their 20s.
Experts said the overall
rise reflects the burgeoning
number of people who are
putting off marriage or liv
ing together without getting
married. They said it also
reflects the fact that hav
ing a child out of wedlock
is more acceptable nowa
days and not necessarily the
source of shame it once was.
The increase in births to
unwed mothers was seen
in all racial groups, but
rose most sharply among
Hispanics. It was up among
all age groups except young
sters ages 10 to 17.
“A lot of people think of
teenagers and unmarried
mothers synonymously, but
they are not driving this,”
said Stephanie Ventura of the
National Center for Health
Statistics, a co-author of the
report. The government also
reported that the rate of
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births by Caesarean delivery
continued to climb in 2005 to
a record high, despite efforts
by public health authorities
to bring down the number.
Many experts believe a
large number of C-sections
are medically unnecessary
and done only for the conve
nience of the mother or her
doctor.
The government report
includes information from
99 percent of U.S. birth cer
tificates filed last year. The
information for 2005 is con
sidered preliminary, but offi
cials said it is not expected
to change much.
About 4.1 million babies
were born in the United
States last year, up slightly
from 2004. More than 1.5
million of those were to
unmarried women; that is
about 37 percent of the total.
In 2004, about 36 percent of
births were out of wedlock.
Out-of-wedlock births have
been rising since the late
19905. Several factors may
be contributing to the trend,
said Dr. Yolanda Wimberly, an
adolescent-medicine special
ist at Atlanta’s Morehouse
School of Medicine.
More women in their 30s
and 40s, hearing their bio
logical clock, are choosing to
give birth despite their sin
gle status. Younger women
are not as worried about
being unmarried, either, she
added.
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