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Google tracks top Atlanta searches in 2012
Google has compiled its 12th annual Year-End Zeitgeist, a series of lists that show the people, places, and topics that captured the world’s attention in 2012. The search-engine and online firm studied the aggregation of over one trillion search queries to assemble 838 top-10 lists from 55 countries. Included in ...
Tailgating at SEC Championship: Don’t get flagged on picnic play
If you were hoping to find a place to park that recreational vehicle at the Georgia Dome for a Georgia-Alabama tailgate party Saturday, you are way too late. The Georgia Dome’s RV spots were sold out by last Monday and pre-paid spots for its 5,000 parking spaces for cars were ...
SEC tailgate fan’s must-haves
Rick Limpert, an Atlanta-based Yahoo sports writer, is CBS Atlanta’s “Tailgate Fan” columnist. Here are Rick’s picks for a few tailgating apps and gadgets to enhance your game experience for Saturday’s SEC Championship game. Apps: Great Tailgating Recipes App (Android) Put out by Bon Appetit, this app costs about a ...
Food worthy of an SEC championship
Here are some of the recommendations for Georgia fans from “Southern Living: The Official SEC Tailgating Cookbook.”Sweet Heat Hot DogsHands on: 15 minutesTotal time: 15 minutesMakes: 8 servings3/4 cup mayonnaise1 tablespoon whole-grain mustard1 green onion, minced2 tablespoons Asian Sriracha hot chili sauce, divided8 hot dogs8 hot dog buns, toasted1 cup ...
Thanksgiving tips for pet owners: Don’t let holidays include a trip to the vet
Pets can seem like family members, but during the season of Thanksgiving and Christmas feasting, there are things that should not be shared with Spot or Fluffy. Here are some tips from the Georgia Veterinary Medical Association to make sure your holidays do not include an emergency trip to the ...
Atlanta arts organizations receive grants
Five Atlanta arts organizations are breathing a little easier after each receiving three-year, $30,000 grants from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation of New York.The recipients are Dashboard Co-op, which does performance and visual art; the Eyedrum Gallery of Art and Music, which provide space for a variety of art forms; the ...
Barbershop singers revive radio days
Barbershop quartet singing may not rock the house, but it can certainly make the air quiver when all four crooners hit perfect pitch and vibrato at the same time, says Mike Walsh.Walsh, a 71-year-old Loganville church choir baritone, says the quartet bug bit him when he stumbled 12 years ago ...
Five tips: What to do in Dahlonega
There is more than gold to be discovered in Dahlonega, 65 miles north of downtown Atlanta. The little mountain town that supplied the gold leaf for the Georgia Capitol has shops, restaurants, art galleries, golf and outdoor activities that draws a steady stream of visitors from the surrounding region. Here ...
Motorcycles rumble into Cobb for national trade show
The bulging batch of Baby Boomers who exercised their second young-adulthood in recent years by buying motorcycles will have shiny new toys to ogle in Cobb County. The Progressive Interntional Motorcycle Show kicks off its 13-city tour beginning today through Sunday. It features the latest bikes from industry leaders such ...
Work bigger than the man, local Livestrong organizers say
Metro Atlanta organizers of Livestrong fund-raising events expect little blow-back from the news that Lance Armstrong is stepping down as chairman of the cancer-fighting nonprofit.Armstrong severed his tie with the Lance Armstrong Foundation, commonly called Livestrong, as news of his sports doping allegations gathered momentum.“In my mind, and I think ...
Atlanta church’s work gets Obama’s attention
Christian conference organizer and Atlanta minister Louie Giglio, award-winning Christian musician Chris Tomlin and others started Passion City Church near the Lindbergh MARTA station about four years ago. Giglio’s conferences and church are aimed at high school and college students, who are encouraged to get involved in social issues such ...
Treading water with upside down mortgages
Marquita Shealey is having tough time after the Lithonia house she bought lost more than half its value in two years.The loss put the 29-year-old first-time buyer in the same position as about 70 percent of metro Atlantans who are younger than 4o with a mortgage. She is upside down, ...
Wells Fargo offers mortgage relief to some
Homeowners in danger of foreclosure whose mortgages are owned or serviced by Wells Fargo Bank may seek refinancings or reductions in principal at events Wednesday and Thursday.Wells Fargo, the largest home lender in metro Atlanta, has invited 9,000 mortgage payers to workshops from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the ...
Homeowners sue Lake Oconee developer
About 50 homeowners in affluent Reynolds Plantation are suing the developers of the Lake Oconee golf and vacation resort for at least $5 million for not repaying money the owners shelled out to join the golf club. Their attorney, James Johnson, said the homeowners loaned between $65,000 and $400,000 each ...
Metro foreclosure notices down 12 percent this year
Another drop in home foreclosure notices is boosting hopes that metro Atlanta’s foreclosure crisis may have peaked. Numbers of notices have been trending down for the year, and they fell again in September to 7,274, from 7,634 a year earlier. Although that was up slightly from August, foreclosure notices for ...
Companies go home-shopping around Metro area
Metro Atlanta’s depressed home prices are drawing the interest of a new type of buyer - companies that buy houses in volume. Such companies have snapped up foreclosures and short sales in the last few months from Gwinnett to Clayton counties, as well homes listed conventionally by realtors. And they ...
Rulings a blow to FDIC bank suits
Recent court rulings will make it more difficult for federal regulators to collect losses from former directors or officers of failed banks - including one case involving a state senator who heads the banking committee.State Sen. Jack Murphy and other directors and executives of Integrity Bank of Alpharetta cannot be ...
SEC pursues Georgia men for insider trading
The Atlanta office of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigated eight Georgia men for insider trading of a Tennessee company that the SEC says profited the men more than $500,000 total.Four of the men agreed to pay back more than $175,000 in gains, fines and interest, and the SEC ...
Title company says court ruling could cloud home ownership for thousands
A company providing services to lenders and home buyers says a recent Georgia court case that tightened the enforcement of foreclosure laws will raise questions about the ownership of thousands of homes, create uncertainty in the housing market and result in many lawsuits. The July court ruling says foreclosure documents ...
Atlanta home prices continue slow climb from deep bottom
Home prices in metro Atlanta continued a slow gain in June from a generational low, rising back to their September1998 values. The Standard and Poor's Case-Shiller Home Price Index shows all three measures — the 10-city, 20-city and national index — ended the second quarter of 2012 with positive growth ...
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