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Shutdown virtually halts CDC flu surveillance
As the government shutdown moves toward its second week, there’s virtually no activity in the federal labs in Atlanta where, each fall, researchers test thousands of samples of flu virus. As the season of coughs, sneezes and sniffles kicks into gear, boxes of samples sent from across the country to ...
Georgians find unpleasant surprises in shutdown
Todd Hill didn’t think his environmental planning business would feel the hammer of the federal shutdown. After all, most of his work is on state road projects.But 15 minutes after starting work Tuesday, Hill got an unpleasant surprise. The federal websites his Atlanta staff relies on almost daily for information ...
Joy, relief, questions greet kidnapped teen's return
Even as joy and relief greeted the homecoming of kidnapping victim Ayvani Perez, authorities acknowledged that one of the suspects arrested Wednesday had been arrested last year on drug charges with the girl’s mother. The fact that the girl’s mother knew one of the suspects seems to conflict with the ...
Footloose bovine captured (and that’s no bull)
The bull has been captured, and upon further inspection, it is not a bull at all. The animal, now revealed to be female, was caught at about 3:30 p.m. Monday after it wandered into a pen built to ensnare it. For months it has created a stir – and even ...
Footloose bovine captured (and that’s no bull)
The bull has been captured, and upon further inspection, it is not a bull at all. The animal, now believed to be a cow, was caught at about 3:30 p.m. Monday after it wandered into a pen built to ensnare it. For months it has been creating a stir – ...
Bovine menaces interstates (and that’s no bull)
A bull has no place on an interstate. Can we all agree on that? Good — because there’s been little agreement on what to do about the bull that’s been loose for the past six months on a wooded tract at the intersection of I-75 and I-675, near the border ...
Georgia’s Medicaid, PeachCare ranks still on the rise
More than three years after the Great Recession officially ended, a record 1.8 million Georgians are enrolled in Medicaid and the state’s child health insurance program, the latest state figures show. That’s nearly one in five residents. The two programs, funded by a combination of federal and state dollars, are ...
“I tried to do the man thing”
Having handled classified documents in the military, Dayna Walker’s reaction to the news that Army Pvt. Bradley Manning had given thousands of sensitive documents to WikiLeaks was swift and final. “I was disgusted,” says the 46-year-old Stockbridge resident. But when Manning said he felt he was a woman trapped in ...
For Atlanta, too, 1963 was “turbulent, decisive”
Bette Graves Thomas remembers 1963 as the year her family couldn’t turn left on Peyton Road. Thomas was 17 when Atlanta’s mayor placed barricades across the road between a black and white neighborhood. “I remember it being inconvenient,” said Thomas, now 67. She also saw it, rightly, as a message ...
Change of heart: Hospital agrees to put teen on transplant list
Faced with a public relations nightmare, officials at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta reversed course Tuesday, putting 15-year-old Anthony Stokes on the waiting list for a heart transplant.That decision came only days after officials at Children’s Egleston hospital wrote a letter saying he would not be listed as a candidate because ...
Hospital agrees to put 15-year-old on transplant list
Anthony Stokes will get a chance at a new heart. According to Stokes’ family, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston reversed course this afternoon and has agreed to add the 15-year-old to its donor list. The decision comes days after the hospital officials sent the family a letter saying Anthony ...
Hospital rejects teen for heart transplant list
About a month ago, Anthony Stokes was a 15-year-old who enjoyed playing basketball. Then came the sleep troubles and the stomachaches. When the chest pains started, his mother took him to the hospital. Tests revealed that his heart is dangerously weak, so weak that doctors at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta ...
Third-grader helps kick off commemoration of 50th anniversary of historic March on Washington
Aiming to honor the past while looking to the future, supporters of the 50th anniversary commemoration of Martin Luther King’s most famous speech turned to 8-year-old Zaqary Asuamah. The Decatur third-grader offered his rendition, from memory, of much of King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech as part of a ...
“You people are going to leave here with some giant smarty-pants on”
It’s the first day of school, and Miss Pledger’s first-graders are shaking the summer away: flapping their arms, shaking their hips and kicking their feet. Go for it, she urges them, “get your wiggles out.” All the while, Emily Pledger is making mental notes: Which children are following the moves ...
Vets fall through cracks in VA mental health system
In mid-2010, more than 500 veterans were on a waiting list to receive mental health care at the Atlanta VA Medical Center. Sixteen attempted suicide before the VA, overwhelmed by a combination of surging demand and budget cuts, could fit them in. The VA’s solution, once funding improved, was to ...
Flood waters strike Gilmer and Pickens counties
Water was gushing into her home — up through the floors, up through the toilet, up through any gap at all — when Pat Lipham grabbed her two small dogs and crawled atop a dresser. Outside, the water spun her car around and threw a porch bench on top of ...
Flood waters strike Gilmer, Pickens counties
Water was gushing into her home — up through the floors, up through the toilet, up through any gap at all — when Pat Lipham grabbed her two small dogs and crawled atop a dresser.Outside, the water spun her car around and threw a porch bench on top of it. ...
Searching for Woody Guthrie and the perfect road trip
Months ago, I planned a summer road trip to Oklahoma for the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival. Well, “planned” is a bit of a stretch.Although I’m a perpetual planner, a habitual list-maker, part of me reveled in the idea of just hitting the open road and going. It seemed like something ...
A safe and successful AJC Peachtree Road race
The hard rains held off and security concerns floated away as 55,000 people ran and thousands more watched the 44th edition of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Peachtree Road Race. Atlanta’s sneakered travelers just would not buckle under worries prompted by the Boston Marathon tragedy and a host of nasty weather forecasts. ...
AJC Peachtree Road Race | Rain holds off while mud is the biggest worry for runners
The biggest issue for most runners Thursday morning was the mud on their shoes at the end of an otherwise smooth AJC Peachtree Road Race at Piedmont Park. Threats of rain may have thinned the spectator ranks a bit, but there were still several thousands along the route to cheer ...
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