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  • Middle school girl barred from playing football

    A Butts County family is outraged by their private school's decision to prevent their daughter from playing on the school's football team, condemning the policy as backwards and discriminatory. Eleven-year-old Maddy Paige was the starting defensive end for the Strong Rock Christian School when she was in the sixth grade. Maddy says the school recently informed her parents that she ...

  • 100 soldiers returning to Ga. from Afghanistan

    COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) -- About 100 soldiers are scheduled to return to Fort Benning in Georgia after a nine-month deployment to Afghanistan. Members of the 14th Combat Support Hospital are expected to return Wednesday to the west Georgia Army base. The unit is made up of soldiers assigned at Fort Benning and medical personnel from throughout the Army. Elsie Jackson, public affairs spokeswoman at ...

  • Former Atlanta Police Officer Sentenced to Prison for Accepting Bribes www.privateofficer.com

    --Elton Augustin, a former Atlanta Police Department officer, was sentenced to two years in prison today for conspiring to accept bribes and lying to FBI agents. "Police officers are sworn to uphold the law and protect the community they serve, but this defendant protected an illegal business in exchange for cash and then lied to federal investigators," said United States Attorney ...

  • Athens-Clarke County Police sergeant back on the job after 2007 stabbing www.privateofficer.com

    Nearly six years after a near-fatal knife attack, Gale was sworn in again this week as an officer with the Athens-Clarke County Police Department. She was reinstated as a sergeant, the rank she held when a man stabbed her a dozen times in December 2007. Though Gale returned to the job in a civilian capacity in February 2012, Tuesday marked the day she had her eye on while on a grueling road to ...

  • Kenya Moore Evicted Real Housewives of Atlanta Stars Eviction Is Official According to Reports

    A Fulton County, Ga. judge officially ruled that the reality television star will have to leave her current six bedroom six bathroom mansion in Fulton County, Ga after owing $848 on her $3999 per month rent. Conya Dillon, Moore's landlord who had her evicted, recently spoke about the eviction in a Radar Online report."I am making this statement as a result of the eviction order and ...


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Bugsy [DVD]

Bugsy [DVD]

There is something inherently fascinating about the risk of great folly, especially in the movie industry, where some of the greatest stories involve ego-driven filmmakers and stars throwing their livelihoods and those of their sponsoring studios into ill-fated projects that seemed destined for disa ... ...

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  • Two year old drives truck into neighbors house

    GRAYSON, Ga -- George and Kathleen Williams came home from shopping today to find out someone broke into their Grayson house. It was obvious from the moment they pulled into their driveway. There was a pickup truck sticking out of their house. "A little red pickup truck from across the street," George Williams said with a smile. "And it was driven by a two year old." The ...

  • Girl With A Pearl Earring makes first southeast appearance

    ATLANTA -- She has the whole room to herself. The Girl With A Pearl Earring really is all we know about her. Despite the fictional movie, we don't know her name, why's she's dressed the way she is or what her story may be. The mystery still questions why millions pay to visit her every year and take her photo three and a half centuries later. "It's all mystery, and we ...

  • Atlanta firefighter commits suicide at station 35 www.privateofficer.com

    We regret to advise you of the suicidal death of an on duty Atlanta (GA) Fire-Rescue Firefighter. AFR Chief of Department Kelvin Cochran issued a statement regarding the tragic death yesterday of Katrina Sims, a Firefighter at Atlanta Fire-Rescue Station 35. FF Katrina Sims was a graduate of the AFR Cadet Program whose dream was to be a Firefighter. Police are treating her death as a suicide. ...

  • Construction underway on massive ferris wheel downtown

    ATLANTA -- Construction workers are pouring the foundation for a 200 foot high ferris wheel in downtown Atlanta. Skyview Atlanta will have more than 30 fully enclosed, temperature controlled gondolas. Each gondola can hold as many as 6 people and will offer stunning, unobstructed views. Once the 15,000 lbs of concrete cures, pieces of the wheel will be brought in for assembly. The goal is to ...

  • Family Teen killed in car crash was not car surfing

    "We had two witnesses come forth and say, 'We saw something different,'" mother Nancy said. "They said they saw the car go by and there was no one on the car. The investigation is not complete; it's ...

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