Thursday 29th July, 2010
Macon, Bibb County Get Mill Redevelopment Grant
MACON, Ga. (AP) -- Macon and Bibb County leaders say they've been awarded a $1.5 million Community Block Development Grant to redevelop the old Atlantic Cotton Mills. The city and the county applied ...
8 States, including Georgia, Get Millions for Gulf Birds
MAMOU, La. (AP) -- The government is doling out $20 million to farmers in eight states, including Georgia, to create habitats for migratory birds whose usual Gulf wintering spots may be fouled by th...
Gwinnett Owners Want Trash Bins Out, Deposits Back
SUWANEE, GA -- Up to 5,000 customers of Red Oak Sanitation Services may want to return their trash bins and get their deposits back. Red Oak was not picked as one of the five Gwinnett County choices ...
Ethics Complaint Lodged Against Handel
News 11ATLANTA (AP) -- A political blogger has filed an ethics complaint against Republican gubernatorial hopeful Karen Handel, alleging she illegally paid staffers from her old secretary of state campaign f...
Agnes Scott Gets $2.5M Gift
News 11ATLANTA (AP) -- Agnes Scott College in Atlanta has received the second largest donation in the history of the women's college. The $2.5 million pledge comes from alumna Elizabeth Rhett Jones and her...
Former Atlanta Police Chief Nominated As Marshal
News 11ATLANTA (AP) -- President Barack Obama has nominated the former Atlanta police chief to serve as the U.S. Marshal in north Georgia. Obama named Beverly Harvard as his nominee on Wednesday. Harvard, ...
Canadian Long Course Nationals: Savannah King, Sinead Russell, Audrey Lacroix Break Top 25
Swimming WorldVICTORIA, British Columbia, July 28. A trio of World Top 25 times went up on the scoreboard during the first evening of the Canadian Long Course Nationals.Savannah King pocketed the women's 800 fr...
Jones, Hudson lead Atlanta past Washington
SportsNetworkWashington, DC (Sports Network) - Chipper Jones drove in two runs and Tim Hudson was solid in 7 2/3 innings on the mound, as the Atlanta Braves took down Washington, 3-1, in the second test of a three...
Transportation Worker Struck, Killed By Car
News 11ATLANTA (AP) -- Authorities have charged a driver who struck and killed a Georgia Department of Transportation worker with second-degree vehicular homicide. Atlanta police spokeswoman Kim Jones says...
Tree Cutter Falls To Death
News 11SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. (AP) -- A 29-year-old man fell to his death in Sandy Springs after the tree he was cutting snapped below him. Lt. Steve Rose with the Sandy Springs police department says the man, ...
Chemical Fire at Athens Plant
News 11ATHENS, Ga. (AP) -- Emergency management officials say a fire at an Athens chemical plant poses no public health risk. Chuck Gulley, coordinator of the Athens-Clarke Emergency Management Agency, sai...
Men Sentenced For Making Fake Licenses
News 11ATLANTA (AP) -- A former Cobb County Department of Driver's Services worker and another man have been sentenced to federal prison after pleading guilty to handing out fake driver's licenses in exchan...
Judge: Oust Warren County School Board Members
News 11ATLANTA (AP) -- An administrative law judge is recommending that Gov. Sonny Perdue remove three members of an east Georgia school board. Judge John B. Gatto reportedly released his recommendation Wed...
Shots Randomly Fired Into House
News 11GWINNETT COUNTY, GA -- Imagine you're sitting in your living room watching television when gunshots crash through your window. It happened to a Gwinnett County family Monday morning. The family lives...
MARTA Employees Caught Sleeping On Job
CBS 46ATLANTA -- CBS Atlanta News has learned that 11 MARTA employees in the electrical power department were caught sleeping on the job less than a mile away from MARTA headquarters.The incident happened o...
Mickey Lloyd Says "I Am Not a Fraud"
News 11MARIETTA, GA -- Cobb County's Public Safety Director defended his honor Wednesday afternoon, saying he is not a fraud. Questions surfaced earlier this month over Mickey Lloyd's Vietnam military recor...
Can a Government Shut Down a Church? In Avondale Estates, the Answer is Apparently "Yes."
News 11Lodged at the dead end of a street near a busy train line, the vacant cinderblock building was, until this spring, the Christ Liberty Family Life Center. Its doors abruptly closed when the city of Avo...
Heyward swipes home on double steal
Atlanta BravesFlight delays Clevlen's big league return WASHINGTON -- Jason Heyward stole home in the first inning against the Washington Nationals on Wednesday night, the first such theft by a Brave in more than 1...
Duluth's Rexall Grill Reopens
News 11DULUTH, Ga. -- A landmark Duluth restaurant is enjoying a rebirth. The Rexall Grill reopened this week, after being closed. If you're not from Duluth, you may not have heard of the Rexall Grill. Bu...
Zebra, Donkey Produce Rare Lovechild In N. Georgia
News 11DAHLONEGA, GA -- Some combinations are just meant to be: Ham and eggs, peanut butter and jelly, Smith and Wesson. But an unexpected merger in north Georgia has produced something that is attracting ...
DeKalb Police Officer Shot
News 11DEKALB COUNTY, GA -- A manhunt is underway in the south DeKalb County community of Ellenwood, where a police officer was shot Wednesday afternoon. SWAT teams are combing the area around the Boulder...
Dove Awards to roost in Atlanta in 2011
Atlanta Business ChronicleGospel Music Association reported it will move its annual Dove Awards show to Atlanta in 2011. It will mark the first time the show has taken place outside of Nashville, Tenn. GMC will broadcast wha...
Servidyne posts $1.7M loss
Atlanta Business Chronicleshrank its loss in fiscal 2010. The Atlanta-based energy-saving building projects company had a net loss of $1.7 million and a loss per share of 46 cents, compared with a net loss of $4.6 million and...
Trader Joe's enters Athens market
Atlanta Business Chronicleis entering the Athens, Ga., market with its first store later this year. California-based Trader Joe's plans to open a 12,000-square-foot store at 1850 Epps Bridge Parkway in the fourth quarter,...
Two get prison for Ga. driver’s license fraud
Atlanta Business ChronicleTwo metro Atlantans will go to federal prison for selling Georgia driver’s licenses in Marietta. Jules Armand Che Siewe Achou, 33, of Atlanta, and Gbemisola Wellington-Salako, 36, of Marietta, ...
Equifax revenue and profit grow
Atlanta Business Chronicle’s profit jumped nearly 20 percent in the second quarter. The Atlanta-based credit reporting firm had net income of $71.3 million and earnings of 56 cents a share, compared with net income of $...
AGL launches Southeast LNG Distribution
Atlanta Business ChronicleSoutheast LNG Distribution Co. , which will distribute liquefied natural gas (LNG) across the Southeast to the heavy-duty transportation market. Atlanta-based AGL Resources (NYSE: AGL) and Houston-ba...
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