In Brief

STORMS: Tornadoes sighted, power knocked out

A line of storms that spawned at least four tornadoes in northwest Georgia on Sunday left roughly 10,000 Georgia Power customers in the dark.

The outages were concentrated in Tucker and Decatur, said Georgia Power spokesman Mark Williams. “We have customers without service all through the metro area.”

Tornadoes were sighted in Bartow, Polk, Floyd and Cobb counties between 5:30 and 7 p.m., but there were no apparent touchdowns and no reports of any significant damage.

In Atlanta, two large trees were reported down off Clifton Road near the Fernbank Science Center. No injuries were reported.

Today’s forecast calls for a 60 percent chance of thunderstorms. After a respite on Tuesday, thunderstorms are likely on Wednesday. As of 6 p.m. Sunday, Atlanta had received 19.45 inches for the year, a half-inch above normal.

CHRISTIAN BOONE

HOME INVASION: Suspect killed in College Park robbery

Police are investigating a home invasion at a College Park apartment early Sunday in which a victim shot and killed one of the robbers.

Police said two men forced their way into a unit of the Southern Lakes apartments on Lakemont Drive about 2:54 a.m. There were 10 people in the apartment, police said.

After they were robbed, the men and women were moved to different areas. One of the men had a gun and fought the robbers, shooting one of them, police said.

The robber was found dead outside the complex, police said, and his accomplice had fled. Their names were not released by police.

One of the women in the apartment was shot and wounded, police said. She was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital for treatment.

KENT A. MILES

SAVANNAH RIVER SITE: DOE report: Safety standards weren’t met

An audit of a nuclear weapons complex in South Carolina says the Savannah River Site did not meet several safety standards when constructing a new facility.

The 31-page Department of Energy report released last month also found that one of the mistakes at the site near the South Carolina-Georgia border could have resulted in a spill of high-level radioactive waste.

The safety issues involved a facility being built to convert weapons-grade plutonium into fuel for commercial nuclear reactors.

Officials with the National Nuclear Security Administration, an Energy Department agency responsible for maintaining and securing the nation’s nuclear weapons, disputed the findings by the Energy Department’s inspector general.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

OBITUARIES

East Point doctor put his patients first

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