1. "It breaks my heart": Quentin Aaron Muse, the 20-year-old who drowned Monday night in Lake Lanier, had "nothing but hope" for the future, a co-worker said. [Read more]
2. Government employees used their taxpayer-funded charge cards to buy dance lessons and international flights, an outside investigation of DeKalb County has found, according to preliminary findings released today. "The waste and apparent abuse has continued unabated," a special investigator wrote. [Read more]
3. Atlanta police are investigating a theft at Arthur Blank's. Three Apple iPads were taken, according to an incident report obtained by the AJC. Two Rolex watches, valued at about $56,000 to $120,000 each, were also gone. [Read more
4. Cobb County's controversial $500 million bus project can now proceed with a simple majority vote of the county commission, despite assurances that the public would get to decide. [Read more]
5. We've been sliding into self-obsession for a very long time, columnist Gracie Bond Staples says, but when the most credible way to promote our relevance rests in the number of "likes" on a selfie, well, we're in big trouble. [Read her column]
6. Rents for Atlanta office space are soaring: Job growth, tightening office space and a relative lack of new development have helped rents for top-tier office towers within metro Atlanta grow at the fastest rate of any major metro in the country, a new report said Tuesday. [Read more]
7. $260 million tech headquarters headed for Tech: The relocation of software company NCR from Duluth to the Georgia Tech area is the first step in a grander plan to create a "Silicon Valley of the East,"its CEO said. [Read more]
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