http://www.ajc.com The latest headlines from AJC en-us Copyright 2009, Cox Newspapers Inc., AJC Sat, 4 Jul 2009 18:36:04 EDT Newspapers COXnet RSS Generator v1.0 http://img.coxnewsweb.com/C/08/17/52/image_1352178.jpg http://www.ajc.com 5 http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/cobb/stories/2009/07/02/cobb_career_expo_canceled.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/cobb/stories/2009/07/02/cobb_career_expo_canceled.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 Thu, 2 Jul 2009 21:19:05 EDT The Marietta/Cobb Career Expo has been canceled because few of the companies attending had any jobs to offer, said Marietta City Council member Anthony Coleman. Coleman said he talked to the state Labor Department and learned the firms that might attend the expo were not hiring. "I didn't want to give people false hope there were jobs out there when there were not," Coleman said Thursday. http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/cobb/stories/2009/07/01/man_exposed_silver_comet.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/cobb/stories/2009/07/01/man_exposed_silver_comet.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 Wed, 1 Jul 2009 22:43:31 EDT A 79-year-old man was arrested Tuesday afternoon after he exposed himself on the Silver Comet Trail, according to his arrest warrant. Robert Lake Price of Mableton faces two public indecency charges after he reportedly began masturbating with his genitals exposed, according to the warrant. The warrant says Price approached two people who were eating on a bench near near mile marker five. The Floyd Road Trail head is at mile marker 4.2 from the beginning of the trail in Smyrna. http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/cobb/stories/2009/06/30/used_six_flags_tickets.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/cobb/stories/2009/06/30/used_six_flags_tickets.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:33:16 EDT An Atlanta man is accused of selling 23 tickets to Six Flags that had already been used. Marlow C. Brown was arrested Saturday after a group that traveled to the Austell park wasn't admitted with tickets purchased in advance, according to an arrest warrant. He faces felony theft charges for selling the tickets, which are worth $1239.69, according to the warrant. http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/cobb/stories/2009/06/30/pliers_in_bra.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/cobb/stories/2009/06/30/pliers_in_bra.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:58:56 EDT An Austell woman told police she used the two pairs of pliers in her bra and the flashlight in her front pocket to steal scrap metal from vacant trailers in her neighborhood. Rhonda Mayfield, 36, told police she stole a washing machine from a vacant trailer, according to an arrest warrant. She was also seen in another trailer before she was arrested, police said. Another woman, 45-year-old Judy Lynn Vaughn of Mableton, helped Mayfield by driving her, according to Cobb County police. http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/stories/2009/06/30/road_stimulus_projects.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/stories/2009/06/30/road_stimulus_projects.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:37:26 EDT The state Department of Transportation has awarded another 22 projects to be paid for by the federal stimulus. The projects are worth $57 million, according to Georgia DOT, and construction should begin next month. They include a repaving project on 20 miles of I-575 in Cobb and Cherokee counties, traffic light upgrades on Old Alabama Road in Fulton County, pedestrian upgrades on Memorial Drive in DeKalb, and others. http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/cobb/stories/2009/06/30/car_creek_cobb.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/cobb/stories/2009/06/30/car_creek_cobb.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:49:46 EDT The accident happened around 9:30 Tuesday when a car traveling on Cobb Parkway near Delk Road lost control and ran down an embankment, overturning and landing in an unknown amount of water, according to Marietta Police Spokeswoman Officer Jennifer Murphy. One person was able to exit the vehicle and emergency crews removed the other. At least one person is being taken to an area hospital, Murphy said. The victims' names and injuries are unknown. http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/cobb/stories/2009/06/29/chuck_e_cheese_robbed.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/cobb/stories/2009/06/29/chuck_e_cheese_robbed.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:12:56 EDT Two men, one of them flashing a gun, robbed a Chuck E. Cheese's in Kennesaw early Sunday morning. As employees were leaving around 1 a.m., the suspects confronted them and ordered them back into the Barrett Parkway restaurant. Then the gunman ordered the manager to open the safe and put the cash into a bag. The suspects took off in a small sedan, and no one was hurt. http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/stories/2009/06/29/miss_georgia_cobb_gwinnett.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/stories/2009/06/29/miss_georgia_cobb_gwinnett.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:08:28 EDT Few were surprised when Kristina Higgins' name was announced Saturday night as the new Miss Georgia. It was her third try at the title, after all, and she was second runner-up the year before. So it came as quite a shock when the 24-year-old special education instructor told pageant officials she'd rather teach. "She was one of the girls to beat," said Emily Cook, runner-up to Higgins, who ran as Miss Capital City. "I really thought she deserved it." http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/stories/2009/06/29/miss_georgia_bows_out.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/stories/2009/06/29/miss_georgia_bows_out.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:32:13 EDT Emily Cook was asleep when she assumed the title of Miss Georgia. The reigning Miss Cobb County was informed Sunday morning that the previous night's winner, Gwinnett County schoolteacher Kristina Higgins, had turned down the prize. "We were heading home to Marietta when we got the call," said Annie Cook, the new Miss Georgia's mother. http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/cobb/stories/2009/06/27/unemployed_blessing.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/cobb/stories/2009/06/27/unemployed_blessing.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:29:22 EDT Six months ago, Lawson Williams, 49, found himself a victim of downsizing and cutbacks. Over a 26-year period he had worked for GE, Sprint and, most recently, Computer Associates (CA). With CA he was involved in a major contract with Harrah's Entertainment. For nine months, he worked in Las Vegas. http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/cobb/stories/2009/06/27/stuck_elevator_arrested.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/cobb/stories/2009/06/27/stuck_elevator_arrested.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:55:13 EDT A Pennsylvania man who got stuck in a hotel elevator spent the night in the Cobb County jail after he allegedly damaged the elevator trying to kick his way out. Richard J. Shevlin, 22, intentionally damaged the elevator at the Comfort Inn in Smyrna by kicking it, according to his arrest warrant. Shevlin, of Eagleville, Pa., was arrested early Friday morning and charged with felony criminal damage. He posted $1,000 bond and was released at 9:30 a.m. Saturday. http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/cobb/stories/2009/06/27/wimbledon_oudin_family.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/cobb/stories/2009/06/27/wimbledon_oudin_family.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:19:17 EDT Each time Melanie Oudin won one of her first three matches at Wimbledon, her family cheered from their Marietta home, more than 4,000 miles away. Wait. She won? Again? AGAIN? And now that the 17-year-old is headed to the Round of 16, her parents are scrambling to make the trip to London. http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/obits/2009/06/27/prather_jeanette_matthew.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/obits/2009/06/27/prather_jeanette_matthew.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:04:05 EDT Matthew Prather cherished his family, revered African mission work and eschewed social status. Recently, the teen spoke to second-graders about his summers distributing medical supplies and conducting bush clinics in Zambia. Sarah Higinbotham, a Sunday school teacher at North Atlanta Church of Christ, was teaching her students about a verse from Romans 15:1 that reads, "Strength is for service, not status." She asked Matthew, who was helping the kids create tissue-paper flowers for Mother's Day, what value he placed on status. http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/cobb/stories/2009/06/27/marietta_mother_dies.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/cobb/stories/2009/06/27/marietta_mother_dies.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:53:16 EDT A Marietta woman was taken off life support and died of injuries sustained in a car crash that killed her 15-year-old son five days earlier. Peach County Coroner Kerry Rooks confirmed Saturday that Jeannette Prather, 51, had been pronounced dead Friday at the Medical Center of Central Georgia. Michael Prather, 49, and Stephen Prather, 18, were not seriously injured in the Monday afternoon accident. http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/cobb/stories/2009/06/28/cobb_clerk.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/cobb/stories/2009/06/28/cobb_clerk.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:50:18 EDT How much legal knowledge can you pick up after five decades inside of a courthouse? Brenda Owenby could tell you. In her 50-year career as a Cobb County court clerk, Owenby, 67, has mastered the complexities of the judicial system so well that Juvenile Court Judge Joanne Elsey called her "the best attorney in the courthouse." High praise for a woman who never went to law school, let alone college. Owenby's many duties include swearing in witnesses, bringing the case file into court, filing the judge's orders, furnishing certified copies and being caretaker of the evidence. But many young lawyers also credit her with helping them learn the ropes.