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Livia Satterfield (left), volunteer trainer, explains the process to Deborah Gates, and her husband Douglas Gates at an Operation Christmas Child's Atlanta location in Suwanee. As an orphan in Romanian Satterfield got a box when she was 12. Now she is a student at Clayton State.

Hyosub Shin, hshin@ajc.com

Shoe box changed girl's life

Livia was 12 when she got a box of toys from an area family. She also got the family.

2 Ga. students get Marshall Scholarship

Two students at Georgia colleges have received the prestigious Marshall Scholarship for graduate study in the United Kingdom.

Grady at impasse with insurer

The insurer that handles Medicaid for Grady Memorial Hospital said it will terminate the hospital's contract Saturday, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has learned.

Football tragedy in Waycross

Three days before burying his 11-year-old son, Mitchell Maxwell Sr. spent the morning in a Waycross courtroom answering allegations that he attacked the 12-year-old boy who accidentally killed his namesake.



Obituaries »

  • Rufus Cameron, 70, piano man

    Rufus Cameron's grandmother played the organ. His grandfather played the banjo.Growing up, Mr. Cameron spent countless days at the home of  George and Fannie Johnson Truitt.

  • Ralph Jones, former Peachtree City mayor, dies

    Ralph Jones was a take-charge kind of guy.In the early 1960s, he moved to Peachtree City to run a plant that manufactured concrete panels for office buildings.

  • Frances Teate, 88: Volunteer in Central America

    Luten Teate Jr. was a pediatrician. Frances Teate, his wife, was a dietitian.The couple wanted their four children to know, and understand, that not everybody lived the good life.

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