William Pate, president and chief executive officer of the Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau, will receive almost $2 million in pay through 2015 after the group's board on Tuesday extended his contract for the next five years. Pate, who took the helm of the tourism organization in January 2009, will be paid $395,000 annually in additional to $85,000 a year in a supplemental retirement plan. The ACVB said under Pate's guidance it expects to see revenue double next year and has expanded its tax district by taking on marketing duties for the city of East Point. LEON STAFFORD
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The state Board of Education has given a second local school board a reprieve. The Montgomery County School Board in south Georgia was given more time Wednesday to resolve the problems that got it in trouble with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the state's main school accrediting agency. The state board, which has the power to recommend suspension of any local board not fully accredited on July 1, granted a similar extension for the Atlanta Board of Education last month. The state board held a similar hearing about the local school board in Coffee County and recommended that board members not be suspended. NANCY BADERTSCHER
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A Newnan man on Wednesday was fined $2,000 and sentenced to two years probation and ordered to not hunt during that time for killing an endangered Florida panther while hunting in south Georgia.
David Adams, 60, was on a deer hunting trip in Troup County in November 2008 when he shot and killed a cougar, known as a Florida panther, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said. Adams knew at the time he was shooting at a cougar, for which there was no open hunting season in Georgia. The Florida panther (puma concolor coryi) has been listed as an endangered species since March 11, 1967. BILL RANKIN
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