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Police in Butts County are preparing to put up the signs outside registered sex offenders’ homes for a second year, warning kids heading out to trick or treat to stay away from their homes.

It was just seconds before the outcome would have been much worse.

Big tech companies including Microsoft, IBM and Intel are avidly pursuing quantum computing, a new and somewhat bewildering technology for vastly sped-up information processing.

A sharecropper’s son, the late Elijah Cummings rose to become a civil rights champion, committee chairman and a leader of an impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.

Feeling unseasonably cold but comfortably crisp across the Valley for Thursday morning, but mornings don’t look nearly as nippy over the coming days.

The truck’s driver — a 25-year-old man from Northern Ireland — has been arrested on suspicion of murder. He has not been charged and his name has not been released.

The family plans to sue the funeral home, hoping to prevent another family from having to go through the same experience.

Police say as officers were helping the victim with his car, “a physical altercation ensued” during which the man assaulted one officer.

Hazardous materials were used to make and sell apricots seeds, which the two allegedly promoted as “the answer to cancer,” according to authorities.

Columbus Fire Department on the scene of house fire.