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Local News from WSB-TV 2 Atlanta via Yahoo! News

Hundreds Attend Griffin Bell Memorial Service

Jan 9, 2009 6:13 pm

ATLANTA -- Hundreds of people gathered Friday to remember former U.S. Attorney Griffin Bell, a leading Georgia attorney who died of kidney failure at the age of 90.

 

Georgia Investigating 200 Gas Stations For Gouging

Jan 9, 2009 4:43 pm

The state received about 2,000 complaints from residents, some alleging stations charged them as much as $9.99 a gallon.

 

Cause Of Sinking Downtown Atlanta Street Revealed

Jan 9, 2009 4:14 pm

ATLANTA -- Officials in Atlanta say the collapse of several large steam vaults caused part of one downtown street to collapse, but they still don't know what was behind two other collapses in the same...

 

Snellville Mother Wants Book Banned From School

Jan 9, 2009 4:13 pm

SNELLVILLE, Ga. -- A Gwinnett County parent is trying to get a book she thinks is inappropriate for teenagers taken off school shelves. The book, "Night Talk" by Elizabeth Cox, is about a fr...

 

Gunshot Victim Drives Himself To Hospital

Jan 9, 2009 12:13 pm

LITHONIA, Ga. -- One man is dead and a wounded man man drove himself to the hospital after a Friday morning shooting in Lithonia. Police said it appears several people opened fire at a house in the 20...

 

Gators Chomp Sooners In BCS Championship

Jan 9, 2009 10:29 am

The college bowl season ends with Florida topping Oklahoma in the national title game.

 

Smyrna's Sunshine Mortgage Closes

Jan 9, 2009 10:28 am

SMYRNA, Ga. -- An independent mortgage lender with offices in Georgia and seven other states has closed suddenly, surprising its employees. Smyrna-based Sunshine Mortgage Corp. closed Thursday after 2...

 

Salmonella Outbreak Spreads To Georgia

Jan 9, 2009 2:13 am

Georgia and Ohio are among the states that are part of a national salmonella outbreak.

 

All Condo Units In One Complex In Foreclosure; Clean Up Begins

Jan 8, 2009 10:13 pm

Channel 2 gets a firsthand look of what it takes to clean up when all 36 units of a DeKalb County condo complex go into foreclosure.

 

Man Jumps; Downtown Connector Traffic Backed Up

Jan 8, 2009 8:59 pm

ATLANTA -- Downtown connector traffic was backed up after a man jumped off the Peachtree Street overpass Thursday afternoon. Police said a man jumped off the overpass onto the downtown connector just ...

 
 

Statewide Headlines from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

9 Georgians have given $50K each to inaugural

Jan 9, 2009 6:12 pm

President-elect Barack Obama has raised more than $24 million on the way toward paying for an inauguration that is expected to cost $45 million. Nearly 50 Georgians have donated $250 or more for Presi...

 

Poll: Georgians want to vote on transportation funds

Jan 9, 2009 1:36 am

Even in the midst of a head-splitting economy, Georgia voters across the board want the chance to vote on transportation funding, according to a poll released Thursday by a coalition that is seeking m...

 

Georgia prisons chief sworn in

Jan 8, 2009 10:56 pm

Gov. Sonny Perdue on Thursday swore in a new commissioner of the Georgia Department of Corrections just hours after the board that oversees the state prison system endorsed Brian Owens' appointment. O...

 

Water planners seek public comment on draft

Jan 8, 2009 8:00 pm

Metro Atlanta's draft water plan for supplying the growing region through 2035 is ready for public comment. The draft includes proposals for handling water supply and sewage, and protecting the region...

 

Georgia among 42 states hit by salmonella

Jan 8, 2009 7:10 pm

Georgia is among the 42 states that have been struck with a salmonella outbreak, with five people taken ill and one requiring hospitalization, officials said Thursday. The ages of the Georgians that h...

 

Barrow schools to add more single-sex classes

Jan 8, 2009 6:22 pm

Barrow County schools are adding more single-gender classes after seeing success with a pilot program this year. Superintendent Ron Saunders said he is talking with teachers at three middle schools ab...

 

Court to rule on horse seizure law

Jan 8, 2009 2:53 pm

An obscure Georgia law that allows state agriculture officials to seize starving horses is the target of a federal lawsuit before the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Edna Reams says the state Agri...

 

Lake Lanier rising fast since early Tuesday

Jan 8, 2009 12:45 pm

Lake Lanier continued its rapid rise Wednesday, as full rivers and streams poured in. By 10:15 a.m., Lanier had risen nearly two feet since early Tuesday. The lake's elevation was 1,055.16 feet above ...

 

Transportation chiefs to state: We need money

Jan 8, 2009 12:47 am

The heads of four Georgia transportation agencies, which have spent years in turf battles, spoke with one voice Wednesday as they implored state government to help raise money to preserve Georgia's tr...

 

Mourners gather to say farewell to Griffin Bell

Jan 7, 2009 5:41 pm

Former U.S. Attorney General Griffin Bell was being laid to rest Wednesday in his hometown in southwest Georgia, with a large crowd of friends and family looking on. They gathered for a graveside mili...

 
 

Metro Atlanta News and Information from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Political, legal leaders pay tribute to Bell

Jan 9, 2009 6:48 pm

A who's who of the southern political and legal communities gathered Friday morning in tribute to the late Griffin B. Bell, the former U.S. Attorney General, federal judge and corporate lawyer.

 

'Michigan left turn' coming to Georgia

Jan 9, 2009 6:27 pm

Cobb County transportation officials are turning to a Midwestern innovation to relieve congestion at Burnt Hickory Road and Barrett Parkway.

 

Georgia teachers' fund to lose $525 million

Jan 9, 2009 6:20 pm

Georgia officials plan to cut $525 million from reserves in the health insurance plan for schoolteachers and state employees to alleviate some of the severe budget crunch.

 

Gunmen ambush Roswell businessman

Jan 9, 2009 6:19 pm

A Sandy Springs pawn shop owner was ambushed, beaten and robbed Thursday night outside his Roswell home by gunmen who then then tied up the rest of his family before demanding money, police said.

 

9 Georgians have given $50K each to inaugural

Jan 9, 2009 6:12 pm

President-elect Barack Obama has raised more than $24 million on the way toward paying for an inauguration that is expected to cost $45 million.

 

MARTA may shut down public restrooms

Jan 9, 2009 5:01 pm

MARTA passengers at Five Points station can use newly renovated restrooms — at least until budget-cutters decide whether to close them to save money.

 

Man who jumped onto Connector identified

Jan 9, 2009 3:36 pm

The Georgia State Patrol on Friday identified the man who jumped to his death on the Downtown Connector Thursday as Joseph Booth.

 

Hospitals reject Grady's plea for help

Jan 9, 2009 2:12 am

Metro Atlanta hospital chiefs offered a short and not-so-sweet response to Grady Memorial Hospital's request for $30 million cash to help care for poor patients.

 

Buckhead residents cry foul over water billing, cutoffs

Jan 9, 2009 1:53 am

First, the city of Atlanta raised water rates 27.5 percent back in June.

 

Traffic nightmare on Connector, Perimeter

Jan 9, 2009 1:46 am

Thursday's drive home turned nightmarish after three incidents snarled highways in downtown Atlanta and on the north and south sides of the Perimeter.