Taxpayers Funded $13 M in NCR Grants

ATLANTA (AP) - State documents show that Georgia lured the world's leading provider of ATMs to move its headquarters from Ohio with $13 million in grants funded by taxpayers. The cost of Georgia's grants to NCR Corp. is outlined in documents obtained by The Associated Press through an open records request. The grants are part of an incentive package of about $100 million to NCR. Most of the incentives come in the form of tax credits and breaks. The state is funneling the money through development authorities in Fayette and Gwinnett counties. The grants come as the state is slashing its budget to meet a shortfall. NCR announced last week it's moving its headquarters to Duluth, Ga. from Dayton, Ohio.

(Associated Press)

Voting rights groups pursue legal challenge

A new ruling by the U.S. Supreme court has emboldened Georgia voting rights groups. The high court overruled a federal appeals court that ordered Ohio's top elections official to do more to help counties verify voter eligibility. The Georgia groups will ask a three-judge panel tomorrow to prevent state officials from matching new voting applications with driver's license and Social Security data. They say the checks amount to a "systematic purging" of rolls just weeks before the Nov. 4 election.

(Associated Press)

Georgia authorities to exhume 'cold-case' remains

Authorities are planning to exhume an unidentified body in Walker County, Georgia, this week to determine if it matches the DNA of a 19-year-old Ohio coll(ege student missing for nearly 55 years.

The Georgia sheriff's department reopened the case in January in hopes that new technology could solve the mystery of the remains found in the woods in 1953 and later buried in the city of LaFayette's cemetery. The remains turned up about a month after the disappearance of Ronald Tammen, a student at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, last seen in his dorm room.

The exhumation will be done Friday. Authorities from Georgia and Ohio are expected to attend.

The DNA extracted from the remains will be compared to Tammens' siblings.

(The Associated Press)

Bus crash victims' families to sue

The families of 16 college baseball players killed or injured in a Georgia bus crash may sue the state. Today they filed necessary claims required under Georgia law before filing a suit against the state. 13 players from Bluffton University in Ohio were hurt March 2nd when their bus plunged off an overpass on Interstate 85 in Atlanta. 3 other players died. The state has a maximum liability of $3 million for the crash.