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Five people indicted in deadly New York City building explosion

Jeffney Peterman

Prosecutors have indicted five people in a deadly gas explosion that destroyed a row of buildings in New York’s East Village neighborhood last March, charging a landlord, her son and a pair of contractors with manslaughter, among other crimes.

Georgia prison population, costs on rise

Just to piggy back on recent topic. In Georgia, Lawmakers are researching how to save money in the justice system and how to cut prison population. Interesting to know that Georgia is the fifth largest state in having the top number of inmates.

As Georgia lawmakers desperately search for ways to slash spending, they are not debating an option taken by other states: cutting the prison population.