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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 ...

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 ...

Fulton County Tax Commissioner Arthur Ferdinand watches a Fulton County Commission meeting in February.

Panel votes 6-0 to cut tax chief’s pay

The Fulton County Commission wants to give the state’s highest-paid elected official a pay cut – something frequently attempted, but never done.Since 2011, Tax Commissioner Arthur Ferdinand has been personally profiting off his controversial tax collection system, using an old state law to earn 50 cents every time a collection ...

U.S. Park Ranger J. Baldwin walks across the boat ramp at McGinnis Ferry Road in Johns Creek as law enforcement and rescue personnel tend to the body of a man found in the Chattahoochee River by two kayakers Monday afternoon, Sept. 30, 2013.

Body found in Chattahoochee River ID’d

Authorities have identified the Sugar Hill man whose body was found floating in the Chattahoochee River on Monday. Omar Hugh Richards, 29, had been missing since Sept. 22, Johns Creek spokesman Doug Nurse said. Richards’ body was found in the river snagged in a fallen tree by a pair of ...

Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man accused of an armed robbery Tuesday morning at an Alpharetta bank. (Photo: Alpharetta police)

Cops: Man in Harley T-shirt robs bank, CVS

Investigators believe the man who robbed a north Fulton County bank Tuesday morning also robbed a CVS store Monday night, according to the FBI and local police. The two robberies happened less than a mile apart in the 12000 block of Crabapple Road, but were far enough apart to involve ...

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