Fulton County Schools has a new police chief.
Fulton Superintendent Robert Avossa has promoted Felipe Usury, a 21-year police veteran, as head of the district's police department. Usury will lead a staff of more than 60 certified police officers and support personnel.
Usury has been a Fulton Schools resource officer for 13 years and has risen through the ranks to captain. Before coming to Fulton Schools, Usury was a Cobb County police officer for eight years. He also is a former Marine Corps reservist. D. AILEEN DODD
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Elementary school students in Cobb, Douglas and Paulding counties will receive a boost of encouragement on March 15 in the form of hand-written letters from community volunteers.
The United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta will deliver the letters to students at Title I schools as part of its 13th Annual Absolutely Incredible Kid Day. The nonprofit is seeking business and community volunteers to adopt one or more classrooms and write letters. Contact Ofelia Nunez at onunez@unitedwayatlanta.org for more information. MISTY WILLIAMS
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This Valentine's Day could be super sweet for some lucky Powerball player.
The jackpot for Wednesday's Powerball drawing jumped to the super sum of $250 million after no one matched all six numbers in Saturday night's multi-state game. Those numbers are: 15-23-43-45-56 and the Powerball was 7.
One Georgia Lottery player won $10,000 in Saturday’s drawing. The lucky ticket was purchased in Pooler.
The Powerball jackpot has been growing since Dec. 28 and has rolled 12 times.
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