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Man fatally shot at south Fulton gas station
Fulton County police have a video clip that shows the face of a man suspected of shooting another beside the pumps at a Chevron gas station early Sunday, but they don’t have a name.Fulton County Police Department spokesman Scott McBride said investigators are hoping someone recognizes the suspected gunman as ...
Atlanta weather | Rain expected late Sunday
Tropical Storm Karen weakened to a tropical depression late Saturday, then dissipated late Sunday morning off the Louisiana coast, negating the impact the storm was expected to have on the metro Atlanta area.As Sunday progressed, clouds increased and a cold front was expected to move through, but metro Atlanta should ...
Portia A. Scott, 70: Former managing editor of Atlanta Daily World
As the managing editor of the Atlanta Daily World, Portia A. Scott was proud to continue a tradition started in 1928 by her uncle, W.A. Scott II, and later run by her father, C.A. Scott. Portia Scott started writing for the paper as a teen, and made it her career ...
New DeKalb chief wants to raise expectations, restore department’s swagger
DeKalb County Police Chief Cedric Alexander arrived at the department in April looking to halt a troubling history of embarrassing and sometimes criminal officer misconduct that had damaged the agency’s reputation. But a recent string of misconduct revelations – the latest being an officer admitting he took a bribe after ...
Gridlock Guy: Federal shutdown offers no silver lining to commuters
When I woke up last Monday morning and learned of the possible government shutdown, my immediate thought was, “What will be the impact on the traffic?” A tad insensitive I know, but that’s how my mind works. Weather, holidays, school breaks, government shutdowns, my first reaction is how is this ...
The Vent for Monday
The citizens of the United States, well, 80%, are sick and tired of the name calling, the accusing of this and that. Sit down and get it done or just resign. If you cannot get along and run this country like you were elected to do, go back home. It ...
Cops: Rapper robbed at Atlanta hotel
A man who told authorities he is a rapper was robbed early Sunday morning at the Hilton on Courtland Street, Atlanta police said. Officers responded to the call at 3:50 a.m. and found a man who told them that three armed males entered his room, tied him up and robbed ...
Meals programs running for now, future unclear
Geraldine Roper fears the federal shutdown could reach all the way to her kitchen table. Roper, a 79-year-old retiree, has received a daily lunch through the Meals on Wheels program for the last three years. Now, she wonders if those meals will stop. “It would cripple me,” said Roper, who ...
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 ...
Witness: Woman killed was in funeral procession
An 80-year-old woman killed Friday afternoon in a Gwinnett County crash was at the end of a funeral procession, according to witnesses.The woman and an elderly man, who was driving, were in a maroon sedan traveling behind the motorcycle officer assisting with traffic control for the procession, Margi Philbin told ...
Metro Atlanta SAT scores tied to poverty
Anxious teenagers across Georgia who took the Scholastic Aptitude Test Saturday will earn scores that either open the door to a bright future or block the path to the college of their dreams. The results for the metro Atlanta class of 2013 indicate that, despite its name, SAT scores are ...
“I want to be a protector”
They want to leave jobs they hate. They yearn for adventure. And, naturally, they say they want to serve. How bad do they want it? Enough to travel hundreds of miles, diet off scores of pounds and hit the gym in earnest to prepare for this day. They’re the applicants ...
1 killed, 3 injured in Cobb wreck
One woman was killed and three others injured when two vehicles collided early Saturday afternoon in Cobb County. Police said Irene Giannangelo, 72, was driving north on Mars Hill Road around 12:20 p.m. when her 2011 white Ford Escape crossed the center line for unknown reasons and struck a white ...
East-west transit trip reveals riders’ woes
Two and a half hours. That’s about how long it takes to fly nonstop from Atlanta to New York City. It’s also how long it took me to travel from Duluth to Marietta on metro Atlanta’s public transit systems. Is this the best that a world-class city can do? Voters ...
Atlanta man, 34, fatally shot; police suspect argument escalated to gunfire
Atlanta police are investigating an early morning fatal shooting. Police said they responded about 6:30 a.m. to reports of a person shot in the area of 579 Boulevard. At the scene, they found a man who had been shot at least one time in the chest. The victim was pronounced ...
DA’s spending of federal forfeiture money in question
Finances of the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office were in such chaos in recent years that even its most basic bills went unpaid. It was slapped with eviction fees for paying rent late for its burglary task force. One of its bank accounts was dangerously close to being overdrawn. A ...
Tally grows of questionable purchases using state funds
The Fulton District Attorney’s Office under-counted how much state forfeiture money it spent on galas, dinners, back rent and other bills by some $19,000, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution found. These additional expenditures, made in 2011, included $10,000 for past-due rent on a community prosecution office; $1,500 for a Buckhead charity gala; ...
Shutdown virtually halts CDC flu surveillance
As the government shutdown moves toward its second week, there’s virtually no activity in the federal labs in Atlanta where, each fall, researchers test thousands of samples of flu virus. As the season of coughs, sneezes and sniffles kicks into gear, boxes of samples sent from across the country to ...
The Vent for Sunday
What employer (other than the government) would have workers who are non-essential? The problem with voting out incumbents: voters always think the problem lies with everybody else’s incumbent politicians, and not their own. What’s missing in Washington? Intelligence and leadership. It is truly amazing how people want to blame one ...
Sunday Conversation with … Jill Binkley
A decade ago, Jill Binkley, a physical therapist, started TurningPoint Breast Cancer Rehabilitation, a nonprofit offering rehab services for women being treated for breast cancer. Binkley understood the enormous need for such services because she had undergone treatment for the disease herself. She also concluded that TurningPoint not only would ...
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