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Deal name panel to review Rep. Brooks’ case
Gov. Nathan Deal said he will appoint a panel Friday to review Rep. Tyrone Brooks’ indictment and determine if the Atlanta Democrat should be suspended from office. Deal told reporters Thursday that the committee, as called for in the Georgia Constitution, will include one House member, one senator and the ...
New tags benefit state wildlife efforts
The state Department of Natural Resources unveiled three new license plates Thursday to benefit conservation efforts across Georgia. The three designs boast color images across the entire face of the plate, including a soaring bald eagle, a grouping of bobwhite quail, deer and wild turkey and a brook trout rising ...
Deal to name panel to review Rep. Brooks’ case
Gov. Nathan Deal today said he will appoint a panel on Friday to review Rep. Tyrone Brooks’ indictment to determine if the Atlanta Democrat should be suspended from office. Deal told reporters that the committee, as called for in the Georgia Constitution, will include one House member, one senator and ...
Gun group finds new site for convention
A month after a misunderstanding between Callaway Gardens and Georgia Carry nearly cancelled the gun group’s annual get-together, the group announced their summer convention would go on as planned Aug. 9-10 in Vinings.The decision represents a return by the group to the Renaissance Atlanta Waverly Hotel & Convention Center, located ...
Will changes affect enforcement at Georgia state parks?
Some Georgia park rangers may soon be without a badge and a gun, unable to collar poachers or write tickets to drunks and litterbugs under a law enforcement reorganization proposed by the state Department of Natural Resources. Visitors, DNR officials said, would see no reduction in its 200 full-time law ...
Former Hawk Mookie Blaylock faces charges in fatal wreck
Former NBA star and Hawks player Mookie Blaylock will be charged on at least two counts in the Friday car wreck that left a woman dead. Jonesboro Police Chief Franklin Allen left open whether any other charges would be brought against the former star, the Associated Press reported Sunday. As ...
Former NBA star Mookie Blaylock faces charges in crash
Former NBA star and Hawks player Mookie Blaylock will be charged on at least two counts in the Friday car accident that left a woman dead. Jonesboro Police Chief Franklin Allen left open whether any other charges would be brought against the former star, the Associated Press reported Sunday. As ...
ID released of woman who drowned in Lake Lanier
Authorities on Monday released the name of the woman who drowned Saturday in Lake Lanier after the tube she was on flipped and she went under the water.Becky Wallace, 55, of Suwanee, died in the accident that happened at 2:15 p.m. in the Shoal Creek area of Lake Lanier, according ...
Boy, 2, drowns in family pool
A 2-year-old Powder Springs boy accidentally drowned Saturday in his family’s pool, Cobb County police said. The incident occurred in the 3000 block of Avondale Point. Spokesman Mike Bowman told Channel 2 Action News there was no sign of foul play in the death. He did not release the name ...
Atlanta weather | Traffic delays done, but showers have arrived
Don’t forget an umbrella if you’re headed outside Sunday, with a band of showers and occasional thunderstorms hitting metro Atlanta in the afternoon. “We’ll be dodging passing showers and storms” throughout the rest of Sunday into Monday, Channel 2 Action News meteorologist Brad Nitz said. High temperatures will peak at ...
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