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Third teen in Clayton wreck dies, taken off life support
A third teenager hit by a vehicle this week in Clayton County died Saturday morning, his family confirmed.Timothy Aaron, 17, suffered a serious brain injury after the Thursday incident and was taken off life support, his father, Eric Aaron of Stockbridge, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.He was pronounced dead at 10 ...
How a home demolition killed a homeless woman
The little yellow house on Daniel Street had been dying for years before they finally killed it. When a demolition crew showed up in May, they found a decaying shell that needed to be taken out of its misery. But the crew didn’t know there was still life inside. Janice ...
Leasing ends up costing millions
The Gwinnett County school district in 2004 bought 49 acres in Suwanee for a new headquarters. The acquisition itself was expensive, but what came after that is still soaking Gwinnett taxpayers for tens of millions of dollars. A year after buying the property, the school district sold it to a ...
911 sends rescuers to wrong street
An Atlanta 911 dispatcher initially sent emergency crews to the wrong address when responding to the May 7 accident in which a homeless woman was fatally injured in the demolition of a house, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has learned.In the first 911 call, a tape of which was obtained by the ...
Razing that led to death a city job
The demolition crew that killed a 51-year-old homeless woman while knocking down a house earlier this month was performing the work on behalf of the city of Atlanta, according to documents obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.North Grading & Clearing, a company based in Carrollton, had been hired by the city’s ...
Gwinnett schools’ payout, developer’s windfall
The Gwinnett County school district paid $1 million more for a piece of land than a prominent developer had paid for it seven months earlier, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation has found. The deal for 26 acres that became an elementary school is the latest in a series of land purchases ...
Gwinnett schools paid inflated price for land
The Gwinnett County school district apparently paid an inflated price for land in 2008 from a developer who is at the center of a criminal investigation into earlier land deals with county government, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation has shown.The district paid $6.94 million for the 103-acre parcel near Dacula — ...
Frequent fast profit made off schools
The Gwinnett County school district spent nearly $9 million more for three properties than the price developers and investors had paid for those parcels just a few months earlier, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation has found.And in a fourth transaction, the district paid $12.5 million for land about a year after ...
AJC probe sparks school policy review
Gwinnett schools Superintendent J. Alvin Wilbanks will ask the school board to revise several aspects of the district’s land purchasing policy amid an investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution concerning such purchases, he told the newspaper last week.“You have pointed out something that we need to do and we’re in the ...
Land flips sting taxpayers
Two Gwinnett County real estate developers made more than $1 million in a day by buying large tracts of land and immediately selling the property to the county’s school district, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation has found. In two other transactions uncovered by the AJC, a third developer cleared $840,000 and ...
Rally celebrates Egyptian leader's removal
The crowd was smaller, compared to Egyptian rallies in recent weeks, but the mood among those gathered at the intersection outside CNN's Atlanta headquarters was lighter, too.On Saturday, feelings of happiness and relief pushed aside fear and frustration.Organizers originally intended for the gathering to be another protest against Egyptian President ...
Rally for Egyptians Saturday outside CNN
Organizers originally intended for today's gathering outside CNN headquarters to be another protest against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his long-entrenched government.But with Mubarak's decision Friday to step down and relinquish power to the Egyptian military, the downtown Atlanta event has turned into a party."We will be celebrating -- of ...
Family escapes fire without injury
An East Point family escaped an early-morning fire Saturday at the same apartment complex where a larger blaze occurred two months ago, fire officials said.No one was injured, but the family has been displaced by the fire at the Colony at Camp Creek Apartments on Drexel Lane, East Point fire ...
Officials decry lack of a coordinated effort during storm
Days in advance, weather forecasters were spot-on in predicting the scope and severity of last week’s winter storm. There would be 3 to 5 inches of snow followed by freezing rain. Georgia Department of Transportation officials, still smarting from a brief, icy storm that caught them off guard last month, ...
Atlanta police housing strategy lures officers downtown
Atlanta police officer Antonio Matos and his family chose five years ago to live in Dacula rather than Atlanta for Gwinnett County’s award-winning school system and its lower cost of living.But a divorce earlier this year meant Matos needed a new place to stay — and that’s more likely to ...
Funds for Cobb water system diverted
Cobb County officials have spent tens of millions of their water system’s money for other uses despite restrictions on how it could be spent, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation has found.As Cobb has increasingly relied on the water system to fund other expenses, the county has repeatedly raised water rates for ...
Cobb County manager law not followed
Two successive chairmen of the Cobb County Commission told the county clerk to disregard a provision of a 27-year-old law that requires Cobb to document the actions of its county manager.Current chairman Tim Lee and his predecessor Sam Olens — recently elected the state’s next attorney general — told county ...
Audit called for on Cobb water agency funds
Cobb County’s top elected official announced Thursday that the County Commission is launching an inquiry into questionable loans and money management involving tens of million of dollars in revenue from the Cobb County Water System.The announcement comes as The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has been gathering data and conducting interviews in a ...
Some state voters aren’t U.S. citizens
AJC Exclusive: For years, Georgia’s method of registering voters allowed some non-U.S. citizens to register and some to cast ballots. And while state officials say they’ve fixed the problem with new voters, there’s nothing to stop noncitizens who registered before the changes from voting Tuesday. The Secretary of State’s Office, ...
Kenerly's service to Gwinnett stained by charges
When Gwinnett County Commissioner Kevin Kenerly talks, he sounds like a professional athlete.“Kevin speaks of himself a lot of times in the third person,” said former Commissioner Marcia Neaton, who served with Kenerly from 2001 to 2004.Kenerly’s habit of mentioning his own name in conversation is one of the traits ...
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