http://www.ajc.com The latest headlines from AJC en-us Copyright 2008, Cox Newspapers Inc., AJC Sun, 6 Jul 2008 11:35:04 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/atlanta/stories/2008/07/06/atlcrash_0707_web.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2008/07/06/atlcrash_0707_web.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 Sun, 6 Jul 2008 10:38:14 EDT Atlanta police are investigating a three-car pile up early Sunday that left two people dead and six injured, one critically. http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2008/07/06/prideclose_0706_web.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2008/07/06/prideclose_0706_web.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 Sun, 6 Jul 2008 10:18:52 EDT Downtown Atlanta motorists don't have to worry about interstate repaving on Sunday, but they'll need to dodge several surface street closings related to the Atlanta Pride Parade. http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/stories/2008/07/06/lanier_0707_web.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/stories/2008/07/06/lanier_0707_web.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 Sun, 6 Jul 2008 10:15:10 EDT Rescuers resumed searching a cove of Lake Lanier on Sunday for two men who fell or jumped off their pontoon boat when it went aground during a rainstorm Saturday night. http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2008/07/06/atlbikes_0707b_web.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2008/07/06/atlbikes_0707b_web.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 Sun, 6 Jul 2008 08:36:58 EDT It's rush hour on a weekday afternoon, and cars are already backed up at the intersection of Krog Street and Edgewood Avenue. Drivers slowly crawl forward as a group of bicyclists speeds past. http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/stories/2008/07/05/wreck_0705.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/stories/2008/07/05/wreck_0705.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 Sun, 6 Jul 2008 08:22:06 EDT Authorities were notified of a wrong-way driver early Saturday morning just minutes before he slammed into another car, killing himself and two others, police said. http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2008/07/05/commitment_ceremony_pride.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2008/07/05/commitment_ceremony_pride.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 Sat, 5 Jul 2008 22:13:48 EDT With two words, Rich Ephgrave and Darron Deal on Saturday linked themselves together forever: "I do." http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/stories/2008/07/05/mental_health_spending_georgia.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/stories/2008/07/05/mental_health_spending_georgia.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 Sat, 5 Jul 2008 21:26:31 EDT Already this month, Georgia officials have settled one federal case alleging civil rights violations of state psychiatric hospital patients. They have until the end of July to respond to another. http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/stories/2008/07/05/georgia_presidential_election.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/stories/2008/07/05/georgia_presidential_election.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 Sat, 5 Jul 2008 21:12:41 EDT Are we or aren't we? We've seen polls, evidence and anecdotes that suggest Georgia will be in play in the presidential race. But some of it is conflicting, vague, or possibly wishful thinking on the part of Democrats. Here's a look at why Georgia will — and won't — be a battleground state in the fight between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain. http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2008/07/05/lewis_election_challenge.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2008/07/05/lewis_election_challenge.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 Sat, 5 Jul 2008 19:53:23 EDT On a recent, blisteringly hot afternoon in southwest Atlanta, John Lewis was walking door-to-door, asking for votes, when he paused at a Greenwich Street home and offered to mow a constituent's lawn. http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/cobb/stories/2008/07/05/officer_cobb_killed_atlanta.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/cobb/stories/2008/07/05/officer_cobb_killed_atlanta.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 Sat, 5 Jul 2008 18:58:55 EDT Cobb County authorities charged a 36-year-old Atlanta police officer with killing a security guard at a Marietta apartment complex after the guard inexplicably barged into the officer's residential unit early Saturday. http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/gwinnett/stories/2008/07/05/gwinnett_drowning_victim_guatemala.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/gwinnett/stories/2008/07/05/gwinnett_drowning_victim_guatemala.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 Sat, 5 Jul 2008 17:38:25 EDT The 17-year-old youth who drowned Friday in Lake Lanier has been identified as Aeriel Cotuc Chaudjay, a Duluth teen who had immigrated to this country from Guatemala. http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/stories/2008/07/05/lake_lanier_holiday_drought.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/stories/2008/07/05/lake_lanier_holiday_drought.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 Sat, 5 Jul 2008 16:53:39 EDT No one place, perhaps, could have embodied the American spirit, particularly its courage and optimism, and values we celebrate this Independence Day weekend. http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/gwinnett/stories/2008/07/05/marta_vote_straw_gwinnett.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/gwinnett/stories/2008/07/05/marta_vote_straw_gwinnett.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 Sat, 5 Jul 2008 16:23:28 EDT Here we are again. http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2008/07/05/sullivan_health_museum.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2008/07/05/sullivan_health_museum.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 Sat, 5 Jul 2008 16:18:22 EDT Dr. Louis W. Sullivan is one of those retirees who won't stay retired. http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/stories/2008/07/05/senate_social_security.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/stories/2008/07/05/senate_social_security.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 Sat, 5 Jul 2008 16:12:21 EDT In the weeks leading up to the July 15 primary election, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is posing questions to candidates for the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Saxby Chambliss. Candidates are given 150 words to answer. The winner of the Democratic primary will face Chambliss and Libertarian Allen Buckley in November.