1. Authorities believe the suspect in the hit-and-run death of a 2-year-old DeKalb County boy has fled the U.S. to what country?
A. Belize
B. El Salvador
C. Costa Rica
D. Panama
2. A prisoner in what state allegedly master-minded the kidnapping in which abductors brought to the Atlanta area the father of the prosecutor who sent him to jail?
A. Tennessee
B. South Carolina
C. North Carolina
D. Alabama
3. A Fulton County court recently found that the director of what state agency was wrongfully forced from her job?
A. Department of Agriculture
B. Department of Labor
C. State Charter Schools Commission
D. Ethics Commission
4. The mayor of what tiny South Georgia town is set to receive the JFK Profile in Courage Award next month?
A. Uvalda
B. Vidalia
C. Mount Vernon
D. Tarrytown
5. What county recently launched a pilot program to collect kitchen grease and oils from apartment dwellers?
A. Gwinnett
B. Fulton
C. Cobb
D. DeKalb
Answers
1. B. Warrants have been issued for Concepcion Cruz, 57, in the hit-and-run death of a 2-year-old Caleb Lindsay and for injuring Caleb’s 4-year-old sister Meyaria. Witnesses said Cruz hit the children while they were standing in front of a Tucker Wal-Mart waiting to cross the road with their mother. Police believe Cruz, an El Salvador native, boarded a flight three days later for the Central American country.
2. C. Kelvin Melton, a man facing life behind bars in North Carolina, allegedly helped plan an elaborate kidnapping plan from prison using a contraband cellphone. He and five others were charged last week with conspiring to kidnap Frank Arthur Janssen, father of the assistant district attorney who prosecuted Melton. Investigators linked calls made to the victim’s wife from a cellphone in the Atlanta area to the prisoner and the alleged co-conspirators.
3. D. A Fulton County jury sided recently with Stacey Kalberman, the former director of the state ethics commission, when it ruled she was forced from her job for aggressively investigating Gov. Nathan Deal, throwing the troubled commission into deeper turmoil. The jury, after deliberating 2 1/2 hours, ordered the state to pay the former ethics commission director $700,000. That figure will climb once back pay and attorneys’ fees are settled.
4. A. Uvalda Mayor Paul Bridges will accept the JFK Profile in Courage Award. The foundation is honoring Bridges, a Republican, for “risking his mayoral career” by opposing Georgia’s immigration law, a measure drafted and signed into law by Republicans in a deeply Republican state. Bridges withstood scathing criticism across the country, according to the foundation.
5. D. Grease clogs were behind 70 percent of the 871 raw sewage spills DeKalb County reported in just a five-year span. The problem was bad enough that, in 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ordered DeKalb to make $700 million in sewer upgrades to curb the leaks.
County leaders have since begun a grease-collection program, being tested at seven apartment complexes in conjunction with the Atlanta Apartment Association. Under the voluntary campaign, Green Grease will collect grease from custom-built bins and recycle it into a biofuel. The apartment association is funding the receptacles, while DeKalb paid to clean the sewer lines around the complexes in the program.
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