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1 dead, 2 injured in SW Atlanta shooting
Police are investigating a fatal double shooting Tuesday night in southwest Atlanta.One man was shot fatally in the head, and another shot in the back, police said.A man in his mid-20s came out of the K&S Market convenient store in the 3500 block of Martin Luther King Drive, just before ...
Q: What is the status of the investigation into the swastika painted on Rep. David Scott’s campaign headquarters sign?
Q: What is the status of the investigation into the swastika painted on Rep. David Scott’s campaign headquarters sign?— James Doppelheuer, SnellvilleA: The investigation into the August incident outside the congressman’s Smyrna office is still under way, said David Johnson, Scott’s district director. He said there have been no leads, ...
Power restored at Clayton jail after 2-hour outage
Electricity was restored to the Clayton County jail hours after a power outage in and near downtown Jonesboro, jail officials said.About 1,900 inmates were in darkness for nearly two hours, before power returned around 10:30 p.m., Clayton County Sheriff Kem Kimbrough said.Jail officials reported the outage at 8:22 p.m. Monday.No ...
Temps near freezing Tuesday A.M.
Look for a cold start to Tuesday morning, but a break from wet weather the National Weather Service said.Skies will be clear Tuesday with low A.M. temperatures between 32 and 36 degrees in metro Atlanta area, forecasters said.The highs will reach about 60 degrees during the day before dropping to ...
Reed rakes in campaign cash; Norwood pleased with her totals
Atlanta mayoral candidate Kasim Reed raised close to $1 million in the last four weeks, nearly twice as much money as his campaign rival Mary Norwood, according to records filed Monday with the city clerk's office.Reed reported collecting $914,826.20 between Oct. 26 and Nov. 25, according to his campaign disclosure ...
High court will not hear "stocking strangler's" appeal
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the appeal of the so-called "Columbus stocking strangler," setting the course for Georgia's next execution.Carlton Gary was sentenced to death in 1986 for killing and raping three Columbus women who were between the ages of 59 and 89. His crime spree, ...
Ga 400 re-opens
Ga. 400 re-opened around 5:30 p.m. Monday -- about two hours after a tractor-trailer jackknifed.The truck struck a retainer wall on 400 northbound, sending several cement block pieces into the southbound lanes and causing at least one accident, Sandy Springs Police said.The accident happened just after 3 p.m., just north ...
Reward offered for murder suspect who cut ankle bracelet
Two weeks after a woman charged with murder cut her ankle bracelet and disappeared, the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to her re-arrest.Emma Hope Grant, 26, of Riverdale was fitted with the ankle monitor June 6 as a condition of ...
Black-tie gala caps Marietta's 175th anniversary party
Marietta will end its yearlong 175th anniversary party with a black-tie gala from 7 to 11 p.m. Friday on the town square.One street, North Park Square, will be closed to traffic and a big, heated tent will be set up for partygoers.The gala kicks off the 23rd annual Marietta Pilgrimage ...
Tax preparer sentenced for filing false returns
A tax preparer convicted of falsifying returns will serve two and a half years in federal prison. On Monday, a federal judge in Atlanta also sentenced Tera Nicole Dixon, 35, to serve a year of supervised release following her prison sentence and to pay $103,523 in restitution. In September, Dixon ...
How colleges decide who gets in, who gets rejection letter
Thousands of Georgia high school seniors are scrambling to finish their college applications and many wonder how colleges decide whom to admit and whom to reject.Jean Jordan, dean of admissions at Emory University, sat down with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution to demystify the process. Emory's application deadline is Jan. 15, the ...
Franklin, others honor school
Atlanta officials proclaimed Monday as The Galloway School Founder's Day in honor of the Buckhead-area school.Mayor Shirley Franklin, Councilwoman Clair Muller and other city leaders attended the school's first Founder's Day celebration. They also renamed a street after the school's founder, the late Elliott Galloway.The school is celebrating its 40th ...
Cracker Barrel attack suspect's lawyer postpones court hearing
A court hearing for a south Georgia man charged with attacking a woman outside a Clayton County Cracker Barrel was postponed Monday after a request from his defense attorney.Troy Dale West Jr.'s attorney requested his hearing, scheduled for 9 a.m. Monday, be postponed, Clayton County District Attorney Tracy Graham Lawson ...
Atlanta housing director to get award
Atlanta Housing Authority executive director Renee Glover has won a national award for her efforts to transform its public housing.The New York-based Manhattan Institute Center for Civic Innovation named Glover its 2009 Urban Innovator Award winner. Since 1994, Glover has demolished thousands of apartments for low-income tenants and converted them ...
Pilot program for Atlanta's sixth-graders eases them into middle school
Breasya Jenkins started sixth grade this year without the hectic schedule most new middle school students face as a rite of passage. She didn't run around Atlanta's Coretta Scott King Young Women's Leadership Academy changing classes several times each day. Instead, she simply stayed at her desk or took all ...
Police: Suspicious package was weed
A suspicious package that forced police to evacuate a DeKalb County health clinic contained 35 pounds of marijuana, police told the AJC.The DeKalb Bomb Squad evacuated Total Health Clinic at 3009 Rainbow Drive near Decatur around 12:15 p.m. Monday after receiving a report of a suspicious item inside, DeKalb police ...
Amid closings across Atlanta, one community center thrives
DeAngelo Linton's pals gave him a hard time when he started attending the after-school program at the Rick McDevitt Youth Center in Peoplestown."They were like, ‘Why you sign up for that?'" said DeAngelo, 12. "I told them I want to stay out of trouble."And he has, improving his grades from ...
Sali Szlam, 84: World War II Holocaust Survivor
In 1942, a young Sali Szlam was herded from her home along with thousands of other Romanian Jews. German soldiers marched them through the woods for several weeks. Eventually, they were packed on a train like sardines, then shipped to a ghetto in Transnistria, near the Ukraine border.There, her father ...
Entry to middle school made easier for some
Breasya Jenkins started sixth grade this year without the hectic schedule most new middle school students face as a rite of passage. She didn’t run around Atlanta’s Coretta Scott King Young Women’s Leadership Academy changing classes several times each day. Instead, she simply stayed at her desk or took all ...
Driver critically injured in DeKalb wreck
A man is in critical condition after crashing into a tree Monday morning in DeKalb County.The crash occurred around 10 a.m. in the 4100 block of North Shallowford Road, DeKalb County Police spokesman Officer Jason Gagnon said.Police are still investigating what caused the driver to lose control of his vehicle ...
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