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High Winds, Rain Hit South, Killing at Least 7

JACKSON, Ga. -- Fast-moving spring storms packing high winds, hail and lightning blew through the South, uprooting trees, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands and killing at least seven people. The storms were part of a system that cut a wide swath from the Mississippi River across the Southeast to Georgia and the...

'Cabbagegate': Man Fined $5K for Home Garden

(Sept. 15) -- His neighbors call it "Cabbagegate." And it cost Steve Miller a lot of green. The Clarkston, Ga., man was fined $5,200 for growing too many vegetables in his backyard. Miller had been growing legumes for 15 years, selling them at local farmers markets and giving them away to friends, before he was cited by...