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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 ...
Marietta’s Cawood claims Atlanta half marathon
Andrew Cawood, 34, of Marietta, won the fifth Allstate Life Insurance Atlanta half marathon, which had a course that took runners through Brookhaven and Chamblee, in a time of one hour, 17 minutes, 39 seconds on Sunday morning. Jonathan Koch, of Atlanta, was second (1:18:59) and Paul Duckett of Dallas, ...
Atlanta Traffic from the WSB 24-hour Traffic Center
Major Interstate Incidents: Drive Safely. Major Highway and Surface Street Incidents: Drive safely and listen to 95.5FM/AM750 News/Talk WSB for live updates Weekend Traffic Report: Mark Arum's Weekend Traffic Report video. All construction that is scheduled is as the GA-DOT reports it and is weather-permitting, so all times, locations, and lanes blocked ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sanford Shmerling, 85: Physician prescribed jokes, joy
Internist Sanford Shmerling’s customary advice to his patients, in addition to whatever medications or regimen he prescribed, was to tell them to start treatment with two big smiles and thereafter to break into broad grins at least three times a day. He was that kind of healer, unfailingly upbeat. He ...
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 ...
Making the trip by car a stop-and-go affair
When we started this venture, reporter Andria Simmons and I joked that I might be getting the worst end of the deal. Everyone knows that battling traffic in metro Atlanta — especially during morning rush hour — is usually an extremely frustrating task. However, I knew that Atlanta Journal-Constitution readers ...
Lawmakers focus on transit coordination
When the transportation sales tax referendum sank last year, many feared metro Atlanta transit was doomed to remain disjointed and underfunded. Funding challenges remain, but an effort is under way at the state Capitol to unite the Atlanta region’s four major transit providers and create a more seamless system. A ...
“We want to see smart, successful women”
First, a confession. Before 10 p.m. Thursday, I had never seen a minute of “Scandal.” But that had not stopped me from being inundated by it. For two years, whenever the show aired, my social media networks would be hijacked by fans – mostly black women — anxiously commenting on ...
Resurgent N.C. A&T in town for Atlanta Classic
For the first time in a long time, North Carolina A&T is on equal football footing with long-time rival South Carolina State. S.C. State and N.C. A&T first played in 1924, and S.C. State leads the series 30-20-2. The Bulldogs won 11 games in a row against the Aggies from ...
Steve Harvey, Jamie Foxx will headline Lowery Institute fundraiser
The Lowery family will hold its annual fundraiser for the Joseph E. Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights Sunday at Morehouse College. TV personality Steve Harvey will host the event and Jamie Foxx will perform, according to a release from the institute. The event begins at 6 p.m. and ...
Bike riders, marathon to block streets in Virginia-Highland, Buckhead and Brookhaven on Sunday
This weekend’s list of interstate road construction zones is slim, but numerous in-town surface streets will be closed Sunday for a bike ride and a road race. The Allstate Life Insurance 13.1 Marathon will affect several roads in Buckhead and Brookhaven, according to Doug Turnbull in the AM750 and 95.5FM ...
Kay Jewlers Armed Robbery at 1380 Atlantic Drive-2
Kay Jewlers Armed Robbery at 1380 Atlantic Drive-2
Fulton revives talk of tax increase
Less than three months after rejecting a property tax increase to help balance Fulton County’s budget, officials have revived the idea. County Commission Chairman John Eaves this week floated a plan for a new tax levy to support either Grady Memorial Hospital or county libraries. Though Eaves hasn’t endorsed the ...
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