The new year has brought with it renewed pledges to make 2012 the year we finally take on the childhood obesity epidemic. (See an earlier post about the controversial new tactics officials in Georgia are trying out .) Max Greenberg has his own thoughts on this front. Greenberg works for the National Wildlife Federation and Outdoors Alliance for Kids . He’s an avid promoter of unstructured physical activity to combat the childhood obesity epidemic. (Nearly 20 percent of children and adolescents are obese at last count according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .) Read full article > >

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Advice from a former obese kid

ATLANTA — The Virginia football team was granted entry into the Georgia Dome on Saturday night in large part because it spent the fall listening to all the things it hadn’t accomplished in a long time and then accomplishing those very things. Next item up on the list: The Cavaliers had not concluded a season with a victory since 2005. Read full article > >

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Chick-fil-A Bowl: Virginia football falls to Auburn after injuries on defense, special teams miscues

As Patricia Cornwell’s “ Red Mist ” begins, medical examiner Kay Scarpetta prays that the “roaring and chugging and backfiring” cargo van she’s rented makes it through the Georgia Lowcountry, with its convoluted creeks, moss-webbed trees and kudzu-strangled underbrush. As she does, the reader also enters convoluted terrain — that of a thriller that’s diffuse and serpentine. Read full article > >

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Francis Kallon Jr., who will attend Georgia Tech, drew the attention of football recruiters before ever playing a game for his Atlanta area high school.

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Recruiters Pounce on British Transfer With No Football Experience

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain denies claims by a Georgia woman that she had a 13-year extramarital affair with him.

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Herman Cain denies affair claim

A vote on Sunday alcohol sales showed a sharp divide between rural communities and the rest of the state.

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Georgia, or Most of It, Ends Sunday Ban on Alcohol Sales

The full Intercounty Connector is scheduled to open Nov. 22, Maryland transportation officials said late Thursday. The 18.8-mile highway will open between Intersate 370 in Gaithersburg and Interstate 95 in Laurel by 6 a.m., weather permitting, said Cheryl Sparks, a spokeswoman for the Maryland Transportation Authority. The ICC’s first 7.2-mile segment opened between I-370 and Norbeck Road, just east of Georgia Avenue, in February. Read full article > >

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Full Intercounty Connector to open Nov. 22

A man was fatally shot late Saturday near the Howard University campus in Northwest Washington, police said. The man was found about 10:15 p.m. at Georgia Avenue and W Street NW. The site is near the Howard University Hospital, but it was not clear whether he was shot there. It was also unknown late Saturday whether the man had any connection with the university. Howard’s homecoming was being held this weekend. Read full article > >

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Fatal shooting near Howard U

Dominique Moxey promotes parties at some of Washington’s swankiest venues all year. But he looks forward to the latter part of October, when 100,000 revelers pack townhouses in Shaw, cram into Georgia Avenue eateries and attend $150 downtown parties. Howard University’s homecoming is both a brand and a business. Read full article > >

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Howard’s homecoming: A brand and a business

Paying $700 a month plus utilities for a three-way share in Mount Pleasant might seem too good to give up to the average District renter. Not Kevin Ogorzalek. Living in that apartment for the past five years was indeed a money saver for the 29-year-old Chicago native, but every dollar — $30,000 to be exact — was tucked away with the intention of one day buying a home. And Ogorzalek did just that last month, closing on a two-bedroom, two-bathroom condominium at 2910 Georgia Ave. NW in Pleasant Plains. Read full article > >

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A Georgia company is aiming to refine its technology so it can be used on an industrial scale at competitive prices.

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A Way to Make Motor Fuel Out of Wood? Add Water

NEW YORK — About 80 people have been arrested as demonstrators who were camped out near the New York Stock Exchange marched through lower Manhattan. The “Occupy Wall Street” protest is entering its second week. Demonstrators said Saturday that they are protesting bank bailouts, the mortgage crisis and Georgia’s execution of Troy Davis. Read full article > >

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80 arrested as ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protest of bank bailouts, mortgage crisis marches in NYC

The execution of Troy Davis in Georgia this week and the questions it raised among proponents as well as opponents of the death penalty are likely to have lasting repercussions in the nation’s debate over capital punishment. Davis, who was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday night, had become a cause celebre for critics who said the case exposed flaws in the justice system that could lead to the execution of an innocent person. Many of those critics, including Amnesty International and the NAACP, pledged Thursday to redouble their efforts to abolish the death penalty. Read full article > >

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Troy Davis execution likely to influence debate

ATLANTA — Georgia’s execution of Troy Davis for the murder of an off-duty police officer has done little to resolve the debate over his guilt that captured the attention of thousands worldwide, including a former president and the pope. Davis remained defiant even after he was strapped to a gurney Wednesday night in the state’s death chamber, declaring his innocence and urging the victim’s family to continue searching for the truth. Read full article > >

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Ga.’s execution of Troy Davis leaves debate over guilt unresolved; inmate maintained innocence

Troy Davis is executed in Georgia for the shooting of a policeman in 1989, in what supporters claim is a miscarriage of justice.

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Troy Davis is executed in Georgia