Monday 8th February, 2010
Grim Foreclosure Numbers Spur Mortgage Reform Bills
News 11ATLANTA - Metro Atlanta's foreclosure notices jumped a whopping 27% this month over January. More than 10,000 of those notices came in the 13-county metro area, according to Alpharetta's
UPS: Pilots must agree to more cost savings
Examiner - AtlantaShipping giant UPS is again telling its pilots they need to agree to more cost savings or the company will have to furlough at least 300 of them.UPS gave the same ultimatum to its roughly 2,800 pilots...
Gov. pushing bill that rewards student performance
Examiner - AtlantaSen. Don Balfour , chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, is introducing the bill.Perdue said the state's current system rewards teachers for their level of education instead of classroom achievement...
Motel assault leads to multiple charges
Cordele DispatchCORDELE — Multiple charges have been filed against a 39-year-old Brooklet, Ga., man as the result of an assault incident city police officers were called to investigate late Saturday night at a ...
1 Dead In Fiery Lawrenceville Plane Crash
News 11LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -- Officials said at least one person was killed and three others hurt in the crash of an airplane in a Lawrenceville neighborhood late Monday afternoon. The crash happened near th...
Police Arrest Suspected Gang Members; Gather Intel From Gang's Web Site
News 11MORROW, Ga. -- The table of shirts and pants reveals a highbrow taste for designer styles. The table is in the conference room of the Morrow Police Department, where police officers conducting the in...
Homeowner Waits Weeks for Water Leak Fix
News 11ATLANTA -- Michael Low spotted water streaming down the gutter of his street, not far from the governor's mansion just before New Year's Day. He said he wasted no time contacting Atlanta Watershed ...
Edwards Sex Tape Reportedly in Atlanta
News 11ATLANTA -- There's lots of talk about the John Edwards sex scandal. It turns out, the much sought after sex tape is right here in Atlanta. A judge in North Carolina said that Andrew Young had to ha...
Effort to Move St. Gerard's Church to Atlanta Hits the Web
News 11BUFFALO, N.Y. (GNS) -- New developments in plans for a vacant church on Buffalo's east side to be dismantled and moved to Atlanta, Georgia. St. Gerard's R.C. Church, located at the intersection of ...
TSYS signs deal with Cedacri
Atlanta Business Chroniclewill enter the Italian market by furnishing card and payments services to clients of Cedacri, an Italian provider of outsourcing services to the banking industry. Columbus, Ga.-based TSYS (NYSE: TSS)...
Reed announces transition team
Atlanta Business ChronicleAtlanta Mayor Kasim Reed Monday announced his appointments to an 18-member transition team that will help fill the top positions in his newly elected administration. Along with former City Council Pr...
Emory to use $2.4 million to retool humanities
Examiner - AtlantaEmory University has received $2.4 million to support the reassessment, reconfiguration and strengthening of the humanities across the university.The money comes from the
Gov. pushing bill that rewards student performance
Examiner - AtlantaSen. Don Balfour , chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, is introducing the bill.Perdue says the state's current system rewards teachers for their level of education instead of classroom achievement...
Ga. debates incentives for federal crackdown
Examiner - AtlantaCobb County lawmaker is proposing legislation that would provide financial incentives to encourage local law enforcement to use a federal program aimed at identifying illegal immigrants arrested in
Special excursion has a few seats left
Cordele DispatchCORDELE — Friends of SAM Shortline are sponsoring a special Valentine fundraising excursion this Saturday, Feb. 13, and volunteer Jack Windham says there are still 25 seats available.
Piedmont Park gets $50K AT&T grant
Atlanta Business ChroniclePiedmont Park Conservancy for environmental education programs for kids. The gift to the nonprofit’s EnviroVentures program includes environmental learning through its summer camp program, prov...
UPS to furlough 300 pilots
Atlanta Business ChronicleMonday announced plans to furlough as many as 300 of its 2,800 pilots as it works to trim $1.4 billion in costs from the shipping business. But UPS also said it will continue negotiations with the pi...
Target Gift cards now can be mobile
Atlanta Business Chroniclecustomers will be able to save their gift-card information online, letting them use their Web-connected cell phones to pay at the cash register. The Minneapolis-based retailer Monday announced the la...
Dunkin’ Donuts celebrates 60 years
Atlanta Business Chronicle– which has 72 locations in metro Atlanta, according to its Web site – is celebrating its 60th birthday with the launch of Create Dunkin's Next Donut contest. The Canton, Mass.-based ...
Seasons on Lake Lanier sold
Atlanta Business ChronicleWachovia for an undisclosed price. The West Palm Beach, Fla.-based private investment firm said the deal includes 14 furnished model homes, 45 complete or partially complete homes, 169 developed lots...
UPS: Pilots must agree to more cost savings
Examiner - AtlantaShipping giant UPS is again telling its pilots they need to agree to more cost savings or the company will have to furlough at least 300 of them.UPS gave the same ultimatum to its roughly 2,800 pilots...
Execution date set for Newton County murderer
Examiner - AtlantaA Georgia death row inmate who was convicted of killing his former girlfriend and another woman in a 1986 robbery at the Newton County grocery store where they worked is set to be executed this month....
Ga. gets $2.4M for nutrition, smoking cessation
Examiner - AtlantaGeorgia will get $2.4 million in federal funds to increase physical activity, improve nutrition, reduce obesity, and decrease smoking.The money is part of $119.5 million in community prevention and we...
Ga. debates incentives for federal crackdown
Examiner - AtlantaCobb County lawmaker is proposing legislation that would provide financial incentives to encourage local law enforcement to use a federal program aimed at identifying illegal immigrants arrested in
Thompson Hine names Smith partner
Atlanta Business Chronicleas a partner in the Atlanta office. Smith, a member of the law firm’s Corporate Transactions & Securities practice group, will also practice in the firm’s New York office. Smith focu...
Ga. debates incentives for illegal alien crackdown
Examiner - AtlantaA Cobb County lawmaker is proposing legislation that would provide financial incentives to encourage local law enforcement to use a federal program aimed at identifying illegal aliens arrested in Geor...
Ga. man convicted of killing 2 to be executed
Examiner - AtlantaLisa Chapman in what prosecutors say was a revenge killing. They say Ford began harassing her with phone calls after the couple broke up, and that soon he was telling friends he wanted to kill her.If ...
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