The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved spending $1.8 billion for four new warships from shipbuilders in Wisconsin and Alabama.

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By Ben Evans AP Writer Washington — Sixty years ago, the late Atlanta Mayor William Hartsfield resisted helping to pay for Lake Lanier, a new federal reservoir being built north of town. Atlanta had plenty of water, he wrote Congress. ...

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Dolan Media Newswires New Orleans — Work is wrapping up on a full-scale restoration of one of the South’s oldest known bridges that had been abandoned for years. The 1882 Black Warrior Bridge in Northport, northwest of Tuscaloosa, sat in ...

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Curt Woodward AP Writer Olympia, WA — Here’s one creative way that state lawmakers helped balance Washington’s troubled budget: They assumed public employees will stay on the job longer — and die sooner than expected once they finally retire. That ...

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Ben Evans and Greg Bluestein AP Writers Atlanta — Georgia faces the dire prospect of losing metropolitan Atlanta’s main water source if political leaders can’t broker a solution with Alabama and Florida over rights to a major reservoir within three ...

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Jay Reeves AP Writer Oxford, AL — Bucket loaders and bulldozers are tearing apart a hill that researchers call the foundation of an ancient Native American site to provide fill dirt for a Sam’s Club store, a move that appalls ...

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Phillip Rawls AP Writer Montgomery, AL — Ready or not, states are getting a tenfold boost in federal money to weatherize drafty homes, an increase so huge it has raised fears of waste and fraud and set off a scramble ...

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