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Mistake delays massive Internet boost for Georgia schools
Education officials have pulled the plug this year on the biggest Internet expansion in Georgia school history, after a mistake nixed any chance to get what they need most to flip the switch: Money. At stake is a chance to bring all 180 school districts up to speed in an ...
Georgia State’s Kell Hall to be torn down
The old yellow building has served as Atlanta’s first parking garage, a saw mill, the city symphony’s rehearsal space and the first permanent building on Georgia State University downtown campus. Now Kell Hall, like so much of the city’s history, has one last mission: the wrecking ball. Georgia State President ...
Indicted Sen. Balfour posts bond
State Sen. Don Balfour, R-Snellville, posted a $5,000 bond Tuesday and was released from the Fulton County jail after being charged last week with 18 counts of filing false expense claims and theft.Balfour’s indictment is based on allegations that he charged the state for expenses on days he did not ...
Youngsters with cancer join fight for a cure
For 30 days, they shared their stories: the athlete who didn’t let amputation keep him off the lacrosse field, the kid who inspired people even as he lay dying, the sisters who share a bond more profound than blood. Their stories were different — the same, too. Each is young, ...
More Georgia pre-k teachers stick with it
Georgia’s pre-kindergarten teachers are no longer rushing for the exit door now that cuts to the program’s school year — and thus to their salaries — have been rescinded, new data shows. Eighty-one percent of last year’s lead teachers, and 74 percent of assistant teachers are back this year teaching ...
2 escape serious injury in small plane crash
Two Henry County residents escaped serious injury when their small plane crashed Monday afternoon in middle Georgia.Claude Nardy was piloting a Aeronca 65, single-engine aircraft when for unknown reasons, the plane crashed around 1 p.m., according to the FAA. The crash happened about 10 miles from Thomaston in Upson County.Nardy ...
Ethics commission calls for special investigation
The state ethics commission on Monday called for an independent investigation in response to a pair of lawsuits pending against the agency as well as its deepening personnel problems. The commission wants Attorney General Sam Olens to appoint a special, outside attorney to lead the investigation. The commission faces whistleblower ...
Feds cite Georgia Power in plant mishap
Federal investigators found 17 safety violations at Georgia Power plant near Cartersville following a generator explosion in April, the government said Friday. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposes a $119,000 for the violations, which it said were connected to the April incident at coal-fired Plant Bowen. The explosion — ...
Narconon of Georgia surrenders license, avoids prosecution
A Norcross drug treatment facility with ties to the Church of Scientology will avoid any potential criminal charges after surrendering its license to the state.But the investigation into allegations of insurance fraud by those running the facility isn’t over, Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter said.“Narconon as a corporate entity ...
Suit: Grady County court forced hundreds to pay unauthorized fees
A southwest Georgia county has been collecting unauthorized court costs from hundreds of criminal defendants, many of whom could not afford to hire their own lawyers, a federal lawsuit alleges.The lawsuit seeks to stop Grady County State Court from collecting “administrative costs” from defendants. In 2011 and 2012, the county ...
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