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Nelson gun ownership requirement challenged
A Washington-based gun control advocacy organization filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the tiny town of Nelson, saying the community’s new ordinance mandating gun ownership has violated the rights of its residents. The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence said one of its members, Harold Lamar Kellett, was required to ...
Clayton sheriff’s racketeering trial set for Aug. 5
The 32-count racketeering and theft trial of Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill is set to begin Aug. 5 now that a pre-trial appeal that sidetracked the case has been resolved. Clayton County Superior Court Judge Albert Collier signed the order on Friday. Attorneys don’t yet know how long it will ...
Discrepancies ignored in wrongful arrest, depositions show
At least 15 people in Atlanta and Fulton County’s justice system suspected that the wrong person was being held in the scalding of Angelo Boyd in a fit of jealousy. The victim told authorities his attacker was still on the street. Physical descriptions differed. Addresses differed. The last names differed. ...
Explosives-sniffing dog bites woman at airport
A Rome woman said Friday an explosives-detection dog working the baggage claim area at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport bit her, unprovoked. Susan Dubitsky said she and her husband were waiting for her sister to arrive around 4:15 p.m. May 2. As an Atlanta police officer and the dog walked past, ...
Atlanta City Councilwoman plans to plead not guilty to DUI charge
Atlanta City Councilwoman Cleta Winslow was a no-show at the news conference that her lawyers called for Thursday afternoon so she could speak to her constituents after being charged with driving drunk earlier in the week.She had a scheduled budget meeting and needed to stay at City Hall, her lawyers ...
State pays civil rights group for trying to overcharge for records
The Georgia Department of Corrections has agreed to hand over 1,000 pages of documents the Southern Center for Human Rights filed a lawsuit to obtain, and to pay the civil rights group’s legal fees. The center had sued to force the department to provide records about inmate deaths and broken ...
Atlanta City Councilwoman plans to plead not guilty to DUI charge
Atlanta City Councilwoman Cleta Winslow was a no-show at the news conference that her lawyers called for Thursday afternoon so she could speak to her constituents after being charged with driving drunk earlier in the week. She had a scheduled budget meeting and needed to stay at City Hall, her ...
DeKalb schools agree to steps to protect Sikh student
DeKalb County schools must provide training at its middle and high schools to stop harassment of students over religion or nationality, according to an agreement reached with the U.S. Department of Justice and announced Tuesday. The agreement came after the Counsel for the Sikh Coalition filed a complaint that a ...
Criminal justice reform will restrict access to some records
Soon records on criminal charges that never led to a conviction or records of a case resolved in drug court will be restricted to the public, available only to law enforcement, when a new Georgia law takes effect July 1.The move to expunge certain records was included in legislation passed ...
Atlanta man sentenced for stealing millions from IRS
An Atlanta man was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in federal prison for filing hundreds of fake tax returns that claimed $35 million in fuel tax refunds. Charlie Shivers III, a 40-year-old former pilot, pleaded guilty last August to two counts of filing false income tax claims. According to information ...
Parole board re-elects leadership
The State Board of Pardons and Paroles has voted to give its current chairman and vice chairman each another term. Chairman Albert Murray and Vice Chairman Terry Barnard will stay in their roles at least through June 30, 2014. Murray is a former commissioner of the Georgia Department of Juvenile ...
Atlanta City Councilwoman charged with driving under the influence
Atlanta City Councilwoman Cleta Winslow was in the Atlanta Municipal Court building Wednesday afternoon, but she didn’t appear with her attorney nor enter a plea to charges that she was driving drunk Tuesday night. Attorney Antavius Weems said Winslow would issue a statement at a news conference planned for Thursday ...
DeKalb schools agree to steps to protect Sikh student
DeKalb County schools must provide training at middle and high schools to stop harassment of students against others because of their religion or nationality, according to an agreement reached with the U.S. Department of Justice and announced Tuesday. The agreement came after the Counsel for the Sikh Coalition filed a ...
Suit accuses APD of racial bias in traffic dispute
A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday accuses the Atlanta Police Department of racial bias in a dispute between a traffic flagman and the woman driver he claims ran him over. The lawsuit says Juan Moreno was using a flag to direct drivers around workers trimming trees away from Georgia Power lines ...
Lawsuit: Woman hits flagman and accused him of fight
Juan Moreno, working as a flagman directing cars away from workers on the side of a street, is accusing the Atlanta Police Department of racial bias for arresting him based only on the word of a woman who ran over him because she was allegedly on her cell phone and ...
Kentucky football player’s condition improves after wreck
The condition of injured University of Kentucky football starter Ashely Lowery improved Monday, and he is now listed as satisfactory at a Gainesville hospital. The 20-year-old Lowery was injured early Saturday in a single-car crash near his home in Cleveland, Ga. Around 4 a.m., Lowery’s 2006 Nissan Altima ran off ...
Shoot-out in Dunwoody shopping center
Dunwoody police fired four shots into the car of a man trying to flee from a shopping center after shoppers reported his suspicious behavior, according to witnesses.Cliff Pough, who called 911, said the man in the then-wrecked Dodge Intrepid did not appear to have been harmed even though there was ...
Cars hit, shots fired near Perimeter Mall
A man trying to flee Dunwoody police was fired upon in a shopping center parking lot after he recklessly attempted to drive off when confronted by officers Friday afternoon. Police arrested Robert Goodman, 20, of Atlanta, and charged him theft by receiving, aggravated assault against an officer and hit and ...
Georgia to lock up fewer young offenders
With a swipe of his pen, Gov. Nathan Deal set in motion another phase of the effort to make criminal justice in Georgia less costly and more effective - this one focused on youthful offenders. Deal signed House Bill 242, adding Georgia to the list of states making sweeping changes ...
Victor Hill scores another court win
Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill scored a second court win in two days Tuesday when the Georgia Court of Appeals ruled in his favor on a procedural challenge concerning a trial court judge’s decision to dismiss five of the original 37 felony charges brought against him last year. Unless a ...
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