Metro news for Thursday
SunTrust Banks was named Wednesday as a United Way Global Corporate Leadership partner for its financial and volunteer support of the international charity.
Atlanta-based SunTrust, the state’s largest bank by deposits, also announced a new contribution of $2.88 million from the SunTrust Foundation. Last year, SunTrust donated $8.4 million to United Way International, including more than $4 million from its employees.
SunTrust workers donated more than 100,000 volunteer hours in 2010 to charities, including the United Way, and is on pace for 125,000 hours this year.
Global Corporate Leadership partners consist of Fortune 500 firms. The designation comes with defined annual giving and volunteerism goals that SunTrust President and CEO William Rogers said the bank clears “by multiples.”
J. SCOTT TRUBEY
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President Barack Obama late Tuesday nominated U.S. District Judge Adalberto José Jordán to the federal appeals court in Atlanta.
Jordán, 49, was born in Havana, Cuba, and came to the U.S. with his parents when he was 6 years old. Before President Bill Clinton nominated him to the federal bench in Miami in 1999, Jordán clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and served as a federal prosecutor. If confirmed by the Senate, he would succeed Judge Susan Black, who took senior status.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is allotted 12 judges and has two vacancies. Obama has yet to fill the Georgia seat of Stanley Birch, who retired from the court a year ago. BILL RANKIN
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Two metro area women have been taken into custody on charges they fraudulently cashed $170,000 in federal and state tax refund checks, the GBI said.
April Nicole Brown, 27, of Atlanta was arrested Monday after the GBI’s office in Calhoun received a tip about her location. Michelle Brooks-Powell, 39, of Acworth also was recently taken into custody. The two women, who allegedly committed their crimes at a check-cashing business in Acworth, face charges of theft by taking and forgery, the GBI said. BILL RANKIN
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