Sen. Renee Unterman (R- Buford) has been appointed by Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle to serve on the High School Athletics Overview Committee.

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Commissioner Ron Jackson informed the state board that oversees the Technical College System of Georgia that he selected Dr. D. Glen Cannon, the president of Chattahoochee Valley Technical College in Phenix City, Alabama, to become the next president of Gwinnett Technical College.

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The Governor’s Office of Consumer Protection, along with Attorneys General from 41 other states, have reached a $35 million settlement with Pfizer Inc., who as parent of Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Inc.               agrees to be bound by the judgment, to resolve allegations that Wyeth unlawfully promoted Rapamune, an immunosuppressive drug currently approved by the FDA as prophylactic for organ rejection after kidney transplant surgery.

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George Washington and a submarine – who would have guessed there was a relationship!?  Yes, the first wartime submarine, or “1-man underwater machine” called the Turtle was invented during the Revolutionary War. 

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