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Victim in Abduction Attempt a Hero

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:47:05 -0500

TALLAPOOSA COUNTY, Ga. - It was a hero's welcome, as a little girl goes back to school for the first time, after nearly being kidnapped from a Wal-Mart. The video is incredible. Police say it ...

DeKalb County Schools Admits Problems

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:47:01 -0500

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. - DeKalb School Board members acknowledge that the board has made some mistakes and has a lot of internal problems to resolve. Now, DeKalb's district attorney has weighed in, ...

Georgia Tech Hosts Campus Safety Day

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:46:59 -0500

ATLANTA - Staff and students at Georgia Tech will see an increased police presence as the campus hosts its 3rd Annual Campus Safety Day on Friday. Georgia Tech police and Atlanta police will be ...

Fire May Have Claimed Famous Movie Items

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:46:56 -0500

STOCKBRIDGE, Ga. - A museum official says valuable memorabilia from the classic film "Gone with the Wind" may have been destroyed when a fire heavily damaged the facility near Atlanta ...

Riverdale Bust Nets Marijuana, Weapons

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:46:54 -0500

Authorities in Clayton County say five people are facing drug and weapon charges after police found marijuana and weapons in their home on Thursday, February ...

Suspects to Face Judge in Norcross Death

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:46:52 -0500

Chief Warren Summers of the Norcross Police Department says Anthony Bernard Lumpkin, age 32; Rico Dehaven West, age 19; Eddie Lewis Green, age 46; Jason Dozier, age 36; Michael Davis, age 23; and ...

Al-Jazeera Washington Chief to Lecture

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:46:49 -0500

ATLANTA - Al-Jazeera Washington Bureau Chief Abderrahim Foukara is headed to Emory University. Foukara will deliver a public lecture titled "The Arab Spring: Between the Freedom of the Future ...

Ala. Crews Fix Sinkhole, I-20 Reopens

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:46:43 -0500

Authorities say a sinkhole has formed on Interstate 20 in Alabama, forcing the closure of the westbound lanes on Friday, February 10. (Photo Courtesy ...

Midtown CVS Pharmacy Hit by Thieves

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:46:41 -0500

ATLANTA - For the second time in two days, a metro Atlanta CVS has been targeted by thieves on Friday. Police say the apparent burglary happened at the CVS Pharmacy on Peachtree Street at around ...

Keisha Waites, Perseverance Prevail in Special Election

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:13:21 -0500

(APN) ATLANTA -- Keisha Sean Waites, 39, who has sought public office and come quite close to winning several times, finally pulled off a victory on Tuesday, February 07, 2012. Waites, who has now ...

Defense Act Provides for Indefinite Detention of US Citizens

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:13:16 -0500

ATLANTA, Georgia, Dec 30, 2011 (IPS) - Civil liberties groups and many citizen activists are outraged over language in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2011 (NDAA) that appears to lay the ...

US House Bans Synthetic Marijuana after Heated Debate

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:13:13 -0500

(APN) ATLANTA -- The US House of Representatives has voted to ban what appear to be a wide array of synethic cannabinoid strains, some which may have been used in herbal incense products in stores ...

Federal Court Grants Legal Victory to Transgender People

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:13:10 -0500

ATLANTA, Georgia, Dec 14, 2011 (IPS) - When Vandy Beth Glenn, a transgender woman formerly known as Mr. Glenn Morrison, told her supervisors at the Georgia state legislature where she served as a ...

Atlanta Likely to Fund People TV for Another Year

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:13:07 -0500

And it authorizes the Mayor, once approved by Council, to go into a new agreement with another entity, with a new entity, at the expiration of their ...

Outwrite Books to Leave 10th and Piedmont Location

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:13:04 -0500

(END/2011) (APN) ATLANTA -- Outwrite bookstore, Midtown Atlanta's iconic gay bookstore, will be leaving its10th and Piedmont location within the next few weeks, signaling a key milestone in ...

APD Officers Run Motorcycle into Protesters, Charge Horse at Senior

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:13:00 -0500

During the APD response to Occupy Atlanta protesters, one officer literally rode his motorcycle into a group of protesters, causing outrage and a bit of a show-down, according to a video of the ...

Why Innocence Didn't Matter for Troy Davis

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:12:52 -0500

ATLANTA, Georgia, Oct 26, 2011 (IPS) - "Innocence matters" is one of the slogans used by activists opposing the U.S. state of Georgia's execution of Troy Davis, up until the day the ...

Farmer for APS, Yes on Sunday Alcohol, No on E-SPLOST IV

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:12:48 -0500

(END/2011) (APN) ATLANTA -- The Atlanta Progressive News Board of Directors has issued the following endorsements for the upcoming General Election on November 08, 2011. ATLANTA PUBLIC SCHOOLS ...

WAND Lobbies US Sen. Isakson to Ratify US-Russia Treaty

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:12:31 -0500

(APN) ATLANTA -- Activists from Georgia Women's Action for New Directions and other organizations have been lobbying US Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA), who sits on the Foreign Relations Committee, ...

Local Currencies Really Can Buy Happiness

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:12:24 -0500

ATLANTA, Georgia, May 30 (IPS/IFEJ) - In the face of an economic system which seems to be premised on environmental harm and profit-driven growth, a handful of communities across the U.S. and the ...

Federal Court Intervenes in Handel's Voter Purge

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:12:20 -0500

(APN) ATLANTA -- A three-judge federal panel ruled October 27, 2008, that Georgia should have sought approval from the U.S. Department of Justice before using Social Security and driver's ...

Grady Hospital Governing Board Discusses Funding Solutions

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:12:08 -0500

(APN) ATLANTA -- Members of the Fulton/DeKalb Hospital Authority (FDHA) exploratory committee and ad hoc advisory group met Tuesday, October 30, 2007, to discuss possible funding solutions to the ...

Brandy K. Checks in From Hawaii

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:12:03 -0500

Atlanta Falcons Cheerleader Brandy K. is in Hawaii this week as she was chosen to be the Falcons’ representative on the Pro Bowl Cheerleading team. Before she left, we equipped Brandy with a ...

BUCKHEAD | Parts of 'Streets of Buckhead' to be demolished

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:09:41 -0500

ATLANTA -- Developer OliverMcMillan Inc. plans to carry out a partial demolition of the former Streets of Buckhead, a project that in recent years became a high-profile victim of the slow economy ...

2 accidents snarl downtown traffic

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:09:32 -0500

ATLANTA -- Two highway accidents may seriously impact commuters heading south toward Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Friday afternoon. A wreck involving five cars and a tractor ...

LITHONIA | Mattie's Call issued for Alzheimer's patient

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:09:27 -0500

LITHONIA, Ga. -- DeKalb County police have issued a Mattie's Call for a missing 76-year-old man who has Alzheimer's disease. Rufus Holcomb was last seen at his home on Eagle Rise at about ...

Early voting begins Monday

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:09:22 -0500

ATLANTA -- Early voting for Georgia's March 6 Super Tuesday primary election begins Monday, February 13. Voting will mostly take place Monday through Friday beginning at 8 a.m., but it's ...

ATHENS | Warm weather could mean more mosquitoes

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:09:18 -0500

An estimated 30,000 Haitians and several thousand people across the border in the Dominican Republic are infected each year with the mosquito-borne illness. Hispaniola is malaria's last ...

BREMEN | Man waives appearance in Walmart abduction case

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:09:13 -0500

BREMEN, Ga. -- A 25-year-old man accused of trying to abduct a seven-year-old girl from a west Georgia Walmart has waived his right to his first court appearance. Thomas A. Woods of Austell is ...

PITTSBURGH | 2 suspects identified in gang beating

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:09:08 -0500

ATLANTA -- Atlanta police have identified two suspects in a videotaped beating in southwest Atlanta over the weekend. Atlanta police spokesman Curtis Davenport said Friday morning that two of the ...

Delta employees flash mob in Atlanta, two other airports

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:10:38 -0500

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and in New York City and Detroit, reports ABC News. Atlanta-based Delta is the second-busiest commercial carrier at Jacksonville International ...

Flowers Foods annual profit decreases 9.9%

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:10:00 -0500

Flowers Foods Inc. (NYSE: FLO) The Thomasville, Ga.-based baked goods company's annual profit was down after $7.5 million in charges related to its acquisition ...

Novelis taps Walpole to head North America unit

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:09:43 -0500

Tom Walpole president of Novelis North America. The Atlanta-based producer of aluminum rolled products and aluminum can recycler said Walpole will head its North American activities in aluminum ...

Augusta launches $350K campaign to market convention center

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:09:32 -0500

The Augusta Convention and Visitors Bureau has launched an 11-month, $350,000 marketing campaign to let potential customers know the expanded downtown Augusta Convention Center is looking for ...

Former credit union employee gets prison time for theft

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:09:21 -0500

A former Robins Federal Credit Union employee was sentenced Thursday to serve three years in prison for stealing identities to apply for loans and credit cards, reports the Macon ...

Tall ships to sail into Savannah for festival

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:09:15 -0500

More than a dozen tall ships are scheduled to sail into Savannah for a three-day festival this spring. The visit is a stop during the Tall Ships Challenge 2012, a race from Savannah to Halifax, Nova ...

Savannah man wins $1 million in Powerball lottery

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:09:10 -0500

There's been a lot of buzz about the Powerball jackpot that has climbed to $310 million for the drawing on Saturday, but there was actually a winner in the lottery game on Wednesday when a ...

Snakes Banned at St. Patrick's Day Event

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:10:08 -0500

SAVANNAH, Ga. - Savannah city leaders are banning the public display of snakes at the upcoming St. Patrick's Day festival. The Savannah Morning News reports ...

STONE MOUNTAIN | Speech therapist sentenced for Medicaid fraud

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:34:39 -0500

ATLANTA -- A DeKalb County jury has found a Stone Mountain speech therapist guilty of defrauding Georgia's Medicaid program. Janine Wright was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison, ...

STOCKBRIDGE | 1 injured in business fire

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:34:29 -0500

STOCKBRIDGE, Ga. (WXIA) -- One person was reportedly injured in a fire at a Stockbridge storage facility Thursday night. The fire broke out at about 11 p.m. at the U-Haul Self Storage facility on ...

ATHENS | UGA to dedicate new library building

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:34:26 -0500

ATHENS, Ga. -- The University of Georgia plans to formally dedicate a building housing special collections libraries. The building is named in honor of Sen. Richard B. Russell, who spent half a ...

VA-HI | Hundreds of runners in undies to invade Va-Hi Saturday

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:34:23 -0500

ATLANTA, Ga. -- There is no sane reason for anyone to be wearing next to nothing outside in Atlanta in winter. So you might question the sanity of runners in Atlanta who, on Saturday, will be ...

Ga. regulators to vote on nuclear plant spending

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:34:19 -0500

ATLANTA -- Utility regulators in Georgia will decide whether to approve spending on what could be the first nuclear plant built from scratch in a generation. Members of the state Public Service ...

Local Radio Personalities Open Up

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:19:43 -0500

ATLANTA - Bert Weiss and Frank Ski have made a good living on Atlanta radio stations. Millions of folks tune in on their morning drive just to hear what the popular hosts are going to say next, but ...

Parents March to Redistricting Hearing

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:19:35 -0500

Parents in the Virginia Highland neighborhood showed solidarity as they marched to a public hearing on the Atlanta Public Schools redistricting ...

Vigil Held For Slain Norcross Teen

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:19:32 -0500

NORCROSS, Ga. - A vigil was held Thursday night at the home in Norcross where a 15-year-old boy was killed last week. Police believe the suspects intended to rob the family and that Nicholas Jackson ...

Doleman Bound For HOF

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:52:39 -0500

Former Atlanta Falcons defensive end Chris Doleman was announced today as a member of the 2012 enshrinement class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, marking the second year in a row a former Falcon ...

Nuclear reactor approval means thousands of east Georgia jobs

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:49:19 -0500

BURKE COUNTY, Ga. (WXIA) -- Many of the 23,000 residents of rural Burke County in east Georgia heaved a sigh of relief Thursday at news that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved the ...

BREMEN | Second grader to speak to classmates about escaping would-be abductor

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:49:13 -0500

BREMEN, Ga. (WXIA) -- A second grader who fought off a would-be kidnapper will speak to her classmates about her daring escape. Seven-year-old Brittney Baxter is scheduled to speak to an assembly ...

Training Credited in Avoiding Abduction

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:48:23 -0500

TALLAPOOSA, Ga. - Teachers hope other students can learn from an abduction attempt of a 7-year-old girl at a Walmart in Bremen on Wednesday. Surveillance footage captured a man grabbing Brittney ...

Officials Hope Video Leads to Stolen Urn

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:48:17 -0500

FAYETTE COUNTY, Ga. - Police hope surveillance footage can help lead to a family's stolen urn. Authorities believe two men in a burglary last month mistakenly stole an urn with the cremated ...

Helmets Useful in Tornados

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:48:14 -0500

"Anything that you can do to protect yourself from debris flying around is a good thing. Wearing helmets is just one extra precaution and it's not a bad idea," said Rothfusz. Last ...

City Worker Accused of Misconduct

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:48:11 -0500

ATLANTA - Authorities say an Atlanta city employee dropped his pants and pulled a weapon on a fellow employee. A sanitation worker is accused of using a Taser on another employee as he exposed ...

Black Leaders Mobilize to Help the Quitman Ten

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:20:54 -0500

Brooks County held a Primary election on July 20, 2010, for positions on the Board of Education. Linda Troutman, who is Black, defeated the White incumbent, Mayra Exum; and Elizabeth Thomas, who is ...

Waites, Others Run for Vacant State House Seat in Special Election

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:20:50 -0500

Waites Runs for Vacant House Seat in Special Election (APN) ATLANTA -- Keisha Waites, who recently ran for the Fulton County Board of CommissionersDistrict 6 seat in 2010, is running for an empty ...

Georgia to Receive More LIHEAP Funds for 2012

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:20:47 -0500

(END/2011) (APN) ATLANTA -- The State of Georgia is set to receive an additional disbursement of funding for the low-income energy assistance program, LIHEAP, now that US Congress has decided on a ...

Reed Rewards Donors, Guards Secrecy in Airport Contracts

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:20:44 -0500

(END/2011) (APN) ATLANTA -- A number of high-profile campaign contributors to Mayor Kasim Reed have received airport contracts, raising concerns about possible pay-to-play, even while Reed's ...

PSC Approves Ten Million in Emergency Heating Aid from USF

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:20:40 -0500

(END/2011) (APN) ATLANTA -- The Georgia Public Service Commission has approved ten million dollars from the Universal Service Fund, to help cover the heating costs of certain low-income people, ...

AJC Continues Whitewashing Existence of Other Media

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:20:36 -0500

(END/2011) (APN) ATLANTA -- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper appears to be engaging in a strategy of whitewashing the existence of other news outlets, except when it serves their purposes ...

Khaatim El, David Dorsey Fund Brown's APS Campaign

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:20:32 -0500

(END/2011) (APN) ATLANTA -- In the five-person race to elect a replacement for former Atlanta Public Schools Board of Education Chairman Khaatim El (District 2), El has indicated which candidate he ...

Judge Schwall Issues Dispossessory against Homeless Task Force

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:20:16 -0500

(END/2011) (APN) ATLANTA -- On Monday, October 17, 2011, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Craig Schwall issued a dispossessory against the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless and Anita ...

Atlanta Council Rejects Two Minute Speaking Request after 40 Minute Debate

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:20:12 -0500

(END/2011) (APN) ATLANTA -- The City Council of Atlanta took an extraordinary vote Monday, October 17, 2011, on whether to grant an additional two minutes of public speaking time to F. ...

Activists React to Glover's Confirmed AHA Resignation

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:20:04 -0500

she's leaving. It's a bad thing that she was allowed to be there for so long," Beaty said. (APN) ATLANTA -- On Monday, October 03, 2011, Renee Glover, CEO of Atlanta Housing ...

Gay Milton Councilman, Alan Tart, Seeks Reelection

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:20:00 -0500

(APN) ATLANTA -- City of Milton Councilman Alan Tart (Post 6), an openly homosexual man living with his male partner, David, in the most right-wing city in the State of Georgia, is seeking ...

Glover May Soon Resign from AHA

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:19:50 -0500

(APN) ATLANTA -- Renee Glover, the CEO of the Atlanta Housing Authority who presided over the demolition and destruction of nearly all of Atlanta's public housing, may soon resign from AHA, ...

Atlantans Launch Chapter of Occupy Together

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:19:43 -0500

(APN) ATLANTA -- For fifteen days, activists have been protesting on Wall Street in New York against corporate greed, in a protest with no end date called Occupy Wall ...

Some Activists Regret Obama, USDOJ Inaction on Troy Davis

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:19:39 -0500

ATLANTA, Sep 28, 2011 (IPS) - During the last days of Troy Davis's life, activists intensified what was already significant pressure on both U.S. President Barack Obama and the U.S. Department ...

Olens, First Amendment Group File Briefs in Atlanta Secret Vote Case

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:19:36 -0500

(APN) ATLANTA -- Attorney General Sam Olens and the Georgia First Amendment Foundation have filed amicus briefs in the case, S11G1047, currently before the Supreme Court of Georgia, and brought by ...

Beskin, APS Liaison, Running against State Sen. Stoner

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:19:31 -0500

(APN) ATLANTA -- Beth Beskin, a Buckhead attorney who previously ran against State Sen. Horacena Tate (D-Atlanta) in the 2010 General Election, and who was appointed by Gov. Nathan Deal as one of ...

Numerous Protests, Arrests as Georgia Executes Troy Davis

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:19:28 -0500

ATLANTA, Georgia, Sep 22, 2011 (IPS) - The U.S. state of Georgia executed Troy Davis at 11:08 p.m. on Wednesday, Sep. 21, despite serious doubts about his guilt that inspired mass protests in ...

AJC, WSB Memo Unveils Insidious Cross-Marketing Plan

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:19:25 -0500

(APN) ATLANTA -- Cox Enterprises, the media company which owns the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper, WSBTV Channel 2, and WSB Radio, distributed a memo to its reporters unveiling a deliberate ...

North Fulton Officials Oppose Beltline's Sales Tax Funding

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:19:18 -0500

(END/2011) (APN) ATLANTA -- Several North Fulton officials are opposed to the inclusion of 601 million dollars of funding for the Atlanta Beltline in the draft list passed by the Executive Committee ...

Former Mayor Franklin's Privatization Schemes Go National

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:19:14 -0500

(END/2011) (APN) ATLANTA -- Former Mayor of Atlanta Shirley Franklin is now the CEO of an organization called Purpose-Built Communities, whose goal is to promote demolitions of low-income housing ...

Teachers' Union Pulls Amos Support over Youtube Videos

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:19:08 -0500

(END/2011) (APN) ATLANTA -- The Georgia Federation of Teachers withdrew the support of Byron Amos, one of the two candidates who they were supporting in the Atlanta Public Schools Board of Education ...

Broadbent Seeks Johns Creek Council Seat, Pushes Milton County

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:19:06 -0500

(END / 2011) (APN) ATLANTA -- Steve Broadbent, the Republican nominee for Fulton County Chairman in 2010, has announced his candidacy for the City Council of Johns Creek, Post 2 seat. Councilman ...

Family of Troy Davis Hopeful for Pardon

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:19:03 -0500

ATLANTA, Georgia, Sep 9, 2011 (IPS) - Troy Davis, the Georgia man whose death row case has drawn international attention, has again been scheduled for execution for Sep. 21, but advocates hope to ...

Troy Davis Faces Execution Fourth, Likely Last, Time

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:19:01 -0500

(END / 2011) (APN) ATLANTA -- Troy Davis, the Georgia man whose death row case has drawn international attention, has again been scheduled for execution for September 21, 2011, but advocates hope to ...

Dialysis Patients Abandoned by Grady Hospital Told One Year to Live

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:18:57 -0500

(END / 2011) (APN) ATLANTA -- Twenty-three Atlanta dialysis patients' lives hang in the balance,one year after the privatized Grady Memorial Hospital Corporation decided to closeits dialysis ...

Task Force for the Homeless in Mediation with City, Other Parties

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:18:49 -0500

(APN) ATLANTA -- The Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, which has sued the City of Atlanta and other parties for conspiring to sabotage and destroy the shelter, is in mediation talks with ...

Five Nations Execute Homosexuals, Two More Considering It

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:18:46 -0500

ATLANTA, Georgia, U.S., Aug 31, 2011 (IPS) - Five nations still outlaw homosexuality and carry out executions of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people, according to a recent report by the ...

Food Not Bombs Feeds Hungry on Sundays on Ponce in Midtown

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:18:44 -0500

(END / 2011) (APN) ATLANTA -- The Atlanta Chapter of Food Not Bombs is about to celebrate two years of feeding hungry people on Ponce de Leon Avenue each Sunday at 1:30pm, on the sidewalk near the ...

Fulton Declines to Limit Contractors' Campaign Donations

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:18:41 -0500

(END / 2011) (APN) ATLANTA -- On Wednesday, August 17, 2011, the Board of Commissioners of Fulton County voted downa proposal, 2 to 4, by Commissioner Emma Darnell (District 5), which would have ...

Council Office Calls Security on APN Editor

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:18:38 -0500

(END / 2011) (APN) ATLANTA -- The City of Atlanta's City Council Office called security on Atlanta Progressive News's News Editor--the present writer--while the Monday, August 15, 2011, ...

City Attorneys Saw Meetings Violations, Memos Show

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:18:29 -0500

raising questions about whether the public is truly being afforded access to those meetings. (APN) ATLANTA -- City attorneys for the City of Atlanta advised Council Members in a series of internal ...

Beltline, Not MARTA Line Extensions, on Penny Tax Proposed List

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:18:24 -0500

(END / 2011) (APN) ATLANTA -- On Thursday, August 04, 2011, the Executive Committee of the Atlanta Regional Transportation Roundtable, narrowed the list of major projects to receive full or ...

New Clean Air Rules Force Some Coal Plants to Close

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:18:17 -0500

ATLANTA, Georgia, Jul 29, 2011 (IPS) - Utility companies across the U.S. have announced plans to shut down and retire several coal-fired power plants following a new rule published by the federal ...

Dangerous Synthetic Cannabinoid "Incense" Floods Market

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:18:15 -0500

(END / 2011) (APN) ATLANTA -- Spice. K-2. Head Trip. Spaz. Spiz. Mr. Miyagi's Warpaint Zero. These are just a few of the many herbal incense products which have flooded Atlanta markets, as some ...

Iranian Man Faces Death over Religious Conversion

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:18:01 -0500

ATLANTA, Georgia, U.S., Jul 18, 2011 (IPS) - Faith leaders in the U.S. representing 25 million citizens have expressed outrage about the case of Youcef Nadarkhani, an Iranian man who faces the death ...

Georgia PSC Can't Silence Nuclear Power Debate

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:17:56 -0500

(APN) Doug Everett, Member of the Georgia Public Service Commission, attempted to limit the scope of public remarks at a recent meeting of the PSC, on Wednesday, July 06, ...

Moore, Sheperd Crucial to Pension Compromise

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:17:44 -0500

(END / 2011) (APN) ATLANTA -- When the City of Atlanta passed a compromise pension reform proposal late last month, in June 2011, it was hailed as a shining new example of the City Council coming ...

Atlanta's Watershed Nominee at Issue in Alleged Retaliatory Firings

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:17:40 -0500

(END / 2011) (APN) ATLANTA -- Today the City Council of Atlanta is likely to consider the nomination of Jo Ann Macrina as Commissioner of the Department of Watershed Management. After being ...

Undisclosed Beheading at Heart of Indonesian, Saudi Row

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:17:37 -0500

ATLANTA, Georgia, U.S., Jun 30, 2011 (IPS) - Indonesia, which has an estimated 1.2 million emigrants in Saudi Arabia, is deeply troubled that Saudi Arabia beheaded one of its citizens in a death ...

Atlantan Unveils Unique Aquaponic Farming Ecosystem

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:17:35 -0500

According to David Epstein, an Atlantan who implemented the system in his home and expanded it over time, this is a one-of-a-kind system. The system is now ...

Federal Judge Throws Out Two Provisions of Georgia's Immigrant Law

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:17:31 -0500

(APN) ATLANTA -- On June 27, 2011, US District Judge Thomas Thrash, Jr., put on hold two core parts of HB 87 which would have gone into effect July 1. His ruling blocks police from asking about ...

Iran Executes Hundreds in "War on Drugs"

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:17:19 -0500

ATLANTA, Georgia, U.S., Jun 27, 2011 (IPS) - Iran is drawing international criticism for its continued mass executions of people convicted of violating its drug laws. The Islamic Republic's ...

NAACP, GCPA Sue Georgia for Neglecting Low-Income Voter Registration

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:17:13 -0500

A lawsuit was filed on June 6, 2011 in federal court to force Georgia's state public assistance offices to comply with the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) that requires all public ...

AHA Board Slashes Alisias Contract, Chastises CEO Glover

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:17:09 -0500

(APN) ATLANTA -- Sparks were flying today, Wednesday, June 15, 2011, at the Atlanta Housing Authority Board of Commissioners meeting, as the Board voted to slash the fiscal year 2012 budget item for ...

Mitchell, Moore, Bond Blast Mayor Reed's Pension Scare Tactics

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:17:07 -0500

(APN) ATLANTA -- Council President Ceasar Mitchell and Council Members Felicia Moore (District 9) and Michael Julian Bond (Post 1-at-large) criticized Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed in scathing comments ...

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