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APD OFFICER MEMORIAL--June 13, 2013 Atlanta: Daughter of fallen Atlanta police officer Gail Denise Thomas, Jasmine Sherman (left) smiles as Thomas' supervisor, Lt. Jeff Cantin (center) applauds along with Chief George Turner (right) after the interchange sign was unveiled Thursday, June 13, 2013. The Atlanta Police Department unveiled a memorial sign at its headquarters Thursday dedicated to an officer killed in the line of duty last January. Senior Police Officer Gail Thomas, a 15-year veteran, died when a drunk driver slammed into her while she was helping another officer with a car wreck on the Brookwood Interchange ramp. She had just gotten out of her patrol car when she was hit, according to reports. "We hope that this will bring us some additional closure," said Lieutenant Jeff Cantin, Thomas's supervisor. "Between this and the conviction earlier of the person who took her from us, we're happy."Chasity Jones, 22, of Stone Mountain, was convicted on charges of vehicular homicide and failure to obey the directions of an officer and will serve a 16-year jail sentence. The sign will be placed below the Exit 251 sign on I-75 that stands about 40 feet south of where Thomas was killed. Thomas' daughter, Jasmine Sherman, attended the ceremony. She has just graduated from college and said she's thankful for everybody who has been so supportive of her since her mother's death. "I thank God everyday for everybody I have; the mother I had," she said. "I thank God every day for it." JOHN SPINK/JSPINK@AJC.COM

AJC Photos of the Week, June 8-14, 2013

  • 12:11 a.m. Friday, June 14, 2013
HONORING COMRADES IN ARMS--Mickey Lopez, a retired firefighter from Chicago, salutes during a memorial service honoring four Houston firefighters at Reliant Stadium, Wednesday, June 5, 2013 in Houston. Dozens of fire trucks and emergency services vehicles from New Orleans, Dallas and elsewhere formed a long procession on flag-lined streets leading to the stadium. Killed in the fire when the motel structure collapsed were Capt. Matthew Renaud, 35, engineer operator Robert Bebee, 41, firefighter Robert Garner, 29, and Anne Sullivan, 24, a probationary firefighter who had graduated in April from the Houston Fire Department Academy. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Michael Paulsen)

AJC Photos of the Week, June 1-7, 2013

  • 11:21 p.m. Thursday, June 6, 2013
STOLEN CAR SCARE--May 30, 2013 Atlanta: Kory Griffin (left) holds son, Jarren Griffin as Atlanta police investigator, A. Allen interviews Jarren's mother, Hilary Grotewald in the CVS parking lot at 2555 Bolton Road. Hilary Grotewald was taking her son to pre-K when she stopped at the Racetrac station on Marietta Boulevard in northwest Atlanta just before 8 a.m. Thursday, May 30, 2013 to put air in a tire. That’s when Grotewald’s morning went from routine to a mother’s worst nightmare as a car thief jumped into her sport utility vehicle. “I was getting air in my tire and I felt the car start to move,” Grotewald told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “It thought I forgot to put it in park, and I realized it was going too fast for that, so when I looked up, there was someone in the driver’s seat and I realized it was being stolen.” The thief pulled into the parking lot of a nearby CVS pharmacy and abandoned the vehicle and child. “Luckily, I think he just wanted my purse and my cell phone so he took all of that and ran off,” Grotewald said, adding that her son was okay, “just really scared.” Atlanta police spokeswoman Kim Jones said witnesses described the suspect as a black male wearing a gray hat and carrying a gray backpack. He was last seen running east on Marietta Boulevard toward LaDawn Lane. JOHN SPINK / JSPINK@AJC.COM

AJC Photos of the Week, May 25-31, 2013

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FLAGS FOR MEMORIAL DAY--U.S. Army Pfc. Corey Shelton, of Virginia Beach, Va., uses a wooden stick to drive flags into the grass on Boston Common in advance of the Memorial Day weekend in Boston, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

AJC Photos of the Week, May 18-24, 2013

  • 10:34 p.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013

Wackiness abounds during 2013 Bay Area race

Officials say that over 30,000 runners participated in the 102nd Bay to Breakers Sunday morning and as of noon that day, San Francisco Police had yet to report any notable incidents.

  • 5:15 p.m. Sunday, May 19, 2013
INDIAN FESTIVAL--051213 CANTON: Cherokee Indian Tommy Martinez, Jackson, GA, takes part in the 24th Annual Cherokee County Indian Festival & Mother's Day Powwow at Boling Park on Sunday, May 12, 2013, in Canton. Martinez performed several native dances while taking part in inter-tribal competition. CURTIS COMPTON / CCOMPTON@AJC.COM

AJC Photos of the Week, May 12-17, 2013

  • 11:13 p.m. Thursday, May 16, 2013
ATLANTA POLICE MEMORIAL--MAY 7, 2013 ATLANTA APD Honor Guard member Sgt Debbie Harris holds a folded flag presented in honor of fallen APD officers. The City of Atlanta held its 22nd annual Atlanta Police Memorial Service in the Atlanta City Hall atrium Tuesday, May 7, 2013. This year's service was dedicated to Officer Richard Halford and Officer Shawn Smiley, who lost their lives in a police helicopter crash while looking for a missing boy in November 2012. In 1962, President John F. Kennedy signed a proclamation which designated May 15th as Peace Officers Memorial Day and the week in which that date falls as Police Week. KENT D. JOHNSON/KDJOHNSON@AJC.COM

AJC Photos of the Week, May 4-10, 2013

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Top 10 honoree Marilyn Anchors, a nurse at Coralwood School, saved the life of a blind, wheelchair-bound student who was having a seizure.

Celebrating Nurses 2013

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution honored 10 of Georgia's best nurses at the eighth annual ajc jobs Nursing Excellence Awards event on May 7 at the Cobb Galleria Centre. The top 10 honorees for 2013 are (front row from left) Sheny Hill, Nancy Fischer, Elizabeth King, Katie Oldham, Dorothy Reeves, (back row ...

  • 3:22 p.m. Wednesday, May 8, 2013
PARADE MASKS--APRIL 27, 2013-ATLANTA: Apolo Shuler (left) & Kai Jean-Baptiste (both age 3) watch the parade together during the 42nd annual Inman Park Festival parade in Atlanta on Saturday April 27th, 2013. The festival features music, kids activities, a Tour of Homes, an artists' market, The Inman Park Dance Festival, an infamous parade with a line-up of Atlanta's wildest groups, including the Inman Park Precision Attache Drill Team and it doesn't end until the Trash Queen sweeps down Edgewood Avenue. The event continues Sunday April 28th 11am-7pm. PHIL SKINNER / PSKINNER@AJC.COM

AJC Photos of the Week, April 27-May 3, 2013

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SHOOTING FOR THE MOON--A full moon rises behind a statue of a Kansas Indian on top of the Kansas Statehouse Wednesday, April 24, 2013, in Topeka, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

AJC Photos of the Week, April 20-26, 2013

  • 11:18 a.m. Friday, April 26, 2013
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