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Shopping Frenzy May Be Down This Year (13 WMAZ Macon)
The 2008 Christmas retail season is officially under way -- with a little less shopping frenzy than last year. Across the nation and Central Georgia, shoppers lined up before dawn for "Black Friday" deals.
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Donations sought for Shop with a Cop program in Hart and Franklin counties in Georgia (Anderson Independent-Mail)
At least eight lucky Georgia children will be shopping with a police officer in December.
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Shopping malls, hotels near mortgage default; more looming (The Columbus Dispatch)
WASHINGTON -- Black Friday's retail shoppers hunting for holiday bargains won't be enough to stave off what's likely to become the next economic crisis. Malls from Michigan to Georgia are entering foreclosure, commercial victims of the same events poisoning the housing market.
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Special events held at Middle Georgia shopping centers (Macon Telegraph)
Some Middle Georgia shopping centers are holding special events this weekend to help attract customers.
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Black Friday shopping underway across state (Georgia Public Broadcasting News)
Black Friday is underway in Georgia this morning, as retailers hope for a good start to the holiday shopping season, despite the sour economy. Early reports this morning indicate discount chain stores are seeing good traffic.
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General Growth Properties gets loan reprieve (Chicago Sun-Times)
WASHINGTON---- Troubled shopping mall owner General Growth Properties Inc. is getting a two-week extension on $900 million in debt that had been scheduled to come due last week as the Chicago-based company works to stave off bankruptcy and negotiate longer-term extensions with lenders.
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Lawmaker Suggests Merging Black, White Colleges (WSB-TV 2 Atlanta)
ATLANTA -- A state lawmaker told Georgia college leaders Monday they need to look at merging public historically black colleges with nearby white-majority schools to help meet budget cuts.
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Troubled Glendale mall owner gets extention on debt (Los Angeles Daily News)
Troubled shopping mall owner General Growth Properties Inc. is getting a two-week extension on $900 million in debt that had been scheduled to come due last week as the company works to stave off bankruptcy and negotiate longer-term extensions with lenders.
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New mortgage crisis looms (Lexington Herald-Leader)
WASHINGTON . The full scope of the housing meltdown isn't clear and already there are ominous signs of a new crisis, one that could turn out the lights on malls, hotels and storefronts nationwide. Even as the holiday shopping season begins in full swing, the same events poisoning the housing market are now at work on commercial properties, and the bad news is trickling in. Malls from ...
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Ludacris Disturbs The Peace At "Rally For Change" (SOHH.com)
Platinum-selling rapper Ludacris has decided to join forces and support Georgia's Democratic hopeful, Jim Martin, by attending the "Rally for Change" in his homestate today. [Visit SOHH.com for more information]
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