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ATLANTA, GA - MAY 21: Ramiro Pena #14 of the Atlanta Braves tags out Trevor Plouffe #24 of the Minnesota Twins in the eighth inning at Turner Field on May 21, 2013 in Atlanta, Georgia.

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  • 'Dear Mom, Love Cher': Singer fulfills mother's dream

    Holt is one of those fabulous women people should know about. Besides having given the world Cher, she's realizing a lifelong dream at 86.Holt is the subject of "Dear Mom, Love Cher," a documentary on Lifetime airing Monday night at 10.Poised to release her   Read more »

  • Reese Witherspoon on 'GMA' says she learned 'many lessons' from arrest

    repeatedly apologized for her behavior during the April 19 traffic stop. A police report states that Witherspoon asked a Georgia state trooper, "Do you know my name?" and added, "You're about to find out who I am."In her first sit-down interview about the   Read more »

  • Billy Currington charged with threatening elderly man

    singer Billy Currington has been indicted in Georgia on charges that he threatened bodily harm to a man older than 65.A Chatham County grand jury indicted Currington on Wednesday on charges of making terroristic threats and abuse of an elderly person. The   Read more »

  • DA: Trio ran handguns from Georgia to Long Island

    York State law enforcement agents "come from out-of-state" via something authorities refer to as "The Iron Pipeline" -- that is, I-95, the road traffickers most-often use to move illegal guns from Florida, Georgia, Virginia , North and South Carolina .   Read more »

  • Georgia man holds four firefighters hostage

    in northeast Georgia say a gunman has barricaded himself in a home and is holding four firefighters hostage.Gwinnett County Police Cpl. Edwin Ritter says five firefighters on Wednesday responded to a medical call in Suwanee. They were taken hostage by a suspect   Read more »

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Lycoperdon echinatum, commonly known as the spiny puffball or the spring puffball, is a type of puffball mushroom in the genus Lycoperdon. The saprobic species has been found in Africa, Europe, Central America and North America, where it grows on soil in deciduous woods, glades, and pastures. Molecular analysis indicates that Lycoperdon echinatum is closely related to the puffball genus Handkea. Initially white in color, the puffballs turn a dark brown as they mature, at the same time changing from nearly round to somewhat flattened. The fruit bodies are edible when young, when the interior is white and firm and before it has turned into a powdery brown mass of spores. Young specimens of L. echinatum resemble another edible spiny puffball, Lycoperdon pulcherrimum, but this latter species does not turn brown as it ages. Laboratory tests have shown that extracts of the fruit bodies can inhibit the growth of several bacteria that are pathogenic to humans. (more...)

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