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Investigation continues in deadly I-20 accident
Police are still working out the details in a tragic accident Friday evening in Douglas County that killed a child and sent four more to the hospital. Police say a woman driving an SUV on I-20 flipped the vehicle several times, apparently while trying to make a last-minute exit at ...
Ethics agency often mired in politics
Two years ago, Stacey Kalberman gave her replacement as director of the state ethics commission some advice: watch out. The job is political and you can get yourself fired, she told Holly LaBerge, the commission’s current director. LaBerge, who recounted the conversation in a deposition taken this summer, said she ...
Nursing board ‘puts your family at risk,’ chief says
The president of the Georgia Board of Nursing declared Wednesday that his board cannot protect people from bad or drug-addicted nurses. The board’s lengthy backlog of disciplinary cases “puts your family at risk,” Barry Cranfill, a nurse anesthetist appointed to the board in 2010, told state legislators. “We can’t do ...
Lawmakers pass ethics law, then hit the beach
Less than three months after they passed historic ethics reform in March, dozens of Georgia legislators headed to the beach for summer conventions — sun, surf, golf and cocktails, most of it paid for by lobbyists. It all took place the same year that legislators capped gifts from lobbyists. That ...
Thieves take $16,000 in guns in Winder heist
Winder police say thieves made off with guns worth $16,000 in a dramatic heist from a local pawn shop Sunday morning. According to a news release, police are searching for at least four people video surveillance shows using a stolen white Dodge Ram to ram the front window of Southeast ...
Sneiderman transferred to prison in NE Georgia
Andrea Sneiderman has begun serving her five-year prison sentence at Arrendale State Prison in northeast Georgia. Atlanta attorney Brian Steel, who is working on the 37-year-old Dunwoody woman’s appeal, said she was transferred from the DeKalb County Jail just hours after her sentencing Tuesday. Sneiderman was convicted Aug. 19 on ...
Agent of change
By the time Lanny Peters took the pulpit on the morning of June 2, the topic of his sermon was no secret. Around the sanctuary of Oakhurst Baptist, a century-old Decatur church, gay and lesbian couples sat in weathered pews with their straight counterparts and waited. “The spirit of Pentecost ...
Legislator nabbed again for DUI
A South Georgia legislator is on his way to rehab after police arrested him for DUI for the second time in less than four months.Douglas police arrested Rep. Chuck Sims, R-Ambrose, at 1:45 Friday morning and charged him with driving under the influence of alcohol. Sims was also arrested on ...
State lawmaker nabbed again for DUI
A South Georgia legislator is on his way to rehab after police arrested him for DUI for the second time in less than four months.Douglas police arrested Rep. Chuck Sims, R-Ambrose, at 1:45 Friday morning and charged him with driving under the influence of alcohol. Sims was arrested in April ...
Governor intervenes in nursing board’s turmoil
Gov. Nathan Deal on Thursday stepped into the turmoil surrounding the Georgia Board of Nursing, which is beset by funding shortages and a backlog of disciplinary cases. Barry Cranfill, president of the nursing board, planned to ask his fellow board members to cut licensing fees in half in protest over ...
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