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Etiquette and good manners are timeless traits
It’s this time of the season that takes me back to when my sons were much younger. It started in the closets, cleaning out what remained of theirs that no longer fit and either boxing it up for charity, or consigning it out, for someone else’s son to wear. That ...
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; ...
Arrest made in Sandy Springs bar death
The man accused of shooting another man to death outside a Sandy Springs bar was arrested Friday, thanks in part to witnesses, according to police. Andrae Dinkens, 31, of Sandy Springs, was arrested without incident after exiting his car at his job in Buckhead, according to Capt. Steve Rose with ...
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 ...
Avalon reaches deal for ‘gigabit’ Internet
The developers of the mixed-use Avalon project along Ga. 400 in Alpharetta has struck a deal to connect homes, apartments, retail tenants and its high-end office users with ultra-high-speed Internet service. North American Properties said Thursday its deal with Hotwire Communications, a provider of fiber-to-the-premises broadband, will create the first ...
Fulton leaders want to slash tax chief’s pay
Another effort is brewing to cut the pay of the state’s highest-paid elected official – something frequently attempted but never accomplished. Instead, pay has shot up for Fulton County Tax Commissioner Arthur Ferdinand over the years as he has found more ways to profit from tax collections. On Wednesday the ...
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 ...
Global Payments names new CEO
Sandy Springs-based transactions processor Global Payments has named its president, Jeffrey S. Sloan, as its new CEO, the company said Tuesday. Sloan succeeds Paul Garcia, Global’s chief executive since 1999, who will remain as the company’s chairman. Sloan joined Global in 2010, steering the company’s Americas operations and its mergers ...
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 ...
Government shut down leads to closing of local National Park Service sites
One of the immediate local impacts from the overnight partial shutdown of the federal government will be the shuttering of National Park Service facilities in metro Atlanta, including the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site, Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park and the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area. Personnel at ...
After four suicides, a school and community begins the healing process
The wooden hearts once planted on the lawn of Milton High are gone now, replaced by a memorial at the school’s entrance, a somber reminder that life doesn’t stretch on forever. Sometimes life stops at age 16. Seven months ago that might have seemed like an impossibility at Milton High ...
Body found in Chattahoochee River
Two paddlers on the Chattahoochee River found a body Monday afternoon in north Fulton County.The kayakers called the park service, which notified Johns Creek police and firefighters.The body was pulled from the water in the area of McGinnis Ferry, according to Jeff Hogan, Johns Creek fire chief.Investigators believe the body ...
Perimeter traffic signal synchronization project — 1 year later
Perimeter-area commuters are spending less time slamming on their brakes and are saving about 32 hours a year in travel time in portions of Sandy Springs, Dunwoody and Brookhaven. That’s because over the past year, traffic signals have been synchronized and three out of four traffic signals in the area ...
North Fulton commuters weigh MARTA expansion
Commuters in north Fulton aren’t asking whether MARTA should extend service to their community. They’re asking when. “We want it now,” Shubha Jangam of Alpharetta declared after a public hearing Thursday at Alpharetta City Hall to discuss options. Joining her in the chorus were others such as Alpharetta resident Malcom ...
Missing Sandy Springs soldier found dead in wrecked car
A recently discharged Army soldier from Sandy Springs was found dead inside his wrecked car Thursday, two days after he was last seen leaving a Buckhead bar. Randal Andrew Ackerman, 31, was honorably discharged after a tour of Afghanistan. He was last seen leaving Hangovers bar around 2 a.m. Tuesday. ...
Rescue-dog project honors slain court reporter
Jan Lopez got the idea not long after her fellow court reporter, Julie Ann Brandau, was killed in the Fulton County courthouse shootings on March 11, 2005.When Lopez, a court reporter in Los Angeles, learned that Brandau loved dogs she asked court reporters nationwide to begin raising money to sponsor ...
Police seek ID of suspect in Sandy Springs bar death
After an altercation with another man inside a Sandy Springs bar, Ellis Alfoncoe Blue got into his car to leave. He never made it out the parking lot, according to police. The man Blue argued with allegedly followed him outside Morgan Falls Billiards Bar on Roswell Road around 2:15 a.m. ...
Alpharetta police: Suicidal woman shot after allegedly pointing gun at officer
Alpharetta police responding to reports of a threatened suicide were forced to shoot a woman who aimed a gun at an officer, a department spokesman said. Just after 6 p.m. Wednesday, a third party caller contacted 911, “requesting assistance to check on a female subject who had sent a text ...
Army vet missing after leaving Buckhead bar
An army veteran who was recently honorably discharged after a tour in Afghanistan has disappeared, Atlanta police said Thursday. Randal Andrew Ackerman, 31, of Sandy Springs, was last seen leaving Hangovers bar in Buckhead around 2 a.m. on Tuesday. He was wearing a red shirt, khaki shorts and flip flops. ...
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