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The Associated Press
Perdue also says the state's weeklong sales tax holiday in the fall would end. And Georgians will face a number of new fees, for things like court records, to help balance the state's books.
Facing 15 months of plummeting tax collections, Perdue on Thursday lowered the state's revenue estimate -- effectively giving state legislators $442 million less to spend for the fiscal year that begins July 1.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Kansas City's school superintendent said Thursday the plan to shutter nearly half the district's schools, while "painful," will move forward quickly so that all the closures will be complete by fall.
The school board narrowly approved the plan Wednesday night to close 29 of the district's 61 schools to try to stave off bankruptcy.
The closures have angered many parents, students and teachers, but administrators say they had no choice because without them, the district would have been in the red by 2011.
"It has been a difficult and painful and emotional process that affects our entire community," superintendent John Covington said at a news conference. "No one likes closing schools."
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SAVANNAH: Savannah is celebrating the resurrection of one of its famous squares, a site that helped spark the city's preservation movement after its demolition in the 1950s.
An outcry among citizens led to the creation of the Historic Savannah Foundation to prevent further loss of the city's important structures.
City officials planned a ribbon-cutting ceremony to reopen Ellis Square, after spending more than four years and nearly $32 million restoring it. The event, originally scheduled for Thursday, was postponed until Friday because of rain.
The parking deck was razed in 2005 and replaced with an underground garage. Work on the square began in February last year.
COLUMBUS: A Columbus man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after a jury convicted him of attacking police officers with a pipe bomb.
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