ATL Overnight: Woman killed when tree falls on home

By George Mathis

April 20, 2015

Remember the sun? Rain-soaked Atlantans will be pleased to learn it will soon reappear in the sky. Meteorologists say rain and storms will continue Monday but the chance of precipitation will approach zero by early evening. Tuesday is expected to be the first sunny day in more than a week.

Days of steady rain contributed to multiple fallen trees in the area, including one that killed a woman when it fell onto a home in northwest Atlanta Monday morning. The 60-foot tree, with a trunk about 2 feet in diameter, toppled onto the rear of a home on Oakcliff Road, in a neighborhood off Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, around 2 a.m.

It is not known if rain played a part in an accident on Ga. 400 that closed all southbound lanes near the old toll plaza early Monday morning. Authorities said a wrong-way driver may have caused the accident. There was no immediate word on injuries. All lanes reopened by 6:30 a.m.

The number of people killed on Georgia roads has increased dramatically this year. In the first quarter of 2015, 295 people have died in wrecks, which is 70 more than during the same period in 2014. Authorities say 'distracted driving' -- drivers looking at their cellphones instead of the road -- may be to blame and cite an increase in the number of single-vehicle accidents where cars veer off a road or out of a lane.

Eva Galambos, the first mayor of Sandy Springs, died Sunday after a battle with cancer. She was 87. Galambos led the north Fulton city's 2005 push for incorporation, helping pave the way for several other municipalities that popped up in Sandy Springs' wake.

Singer Bobby Brown says his daughter with Whitney Houston, Bobbi Kristina Brown, is "awake." Brown made his comments while performing in Texas. Bobbi Kristina was hospitalized Jan. 31 after being found face down and unresponsive in a tub at her Georgia home.

An Air Force veteran who posed for Playboy has been banned from the campus of Valdosta State University after taking a U.S. flag from demonstrators who were walking on it. Michelle Manhart can be seen struggling with police during the incident but was not arrested. She quit the Air Force after being demoted for appearing in the men's magazine in 2007.

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