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  • Help Desk Community Hiring Event in Decatur Friday

    11Alive Help Desk wants to make all graduating students, veterans, military members and their spouses aware of this opportunity. The community hiring event will begin at 10:00 a.m. and will run until 2 p.m. at the Laurus Technical Institute located at 523 Church St. in Decatur. Employers in attendance include Metro Brokers - Better Homes & Gardens Real Estate; Comcast Corporate; Georgia ...

  • Emory releases statement on brief afternoon lockdown

    MIDTOWN -- Emory University Hospital Midtown released a statement on Thursday evening after a brief lockdown was lifted. Vince Dollard, Associate Vice President of Communications of Emory University said, "Emory University Hospital Midtown was put on lockdown status this afternoon at approximately 4:30 and it was lifted at approximately 5:45. This was a result of a suspected improper ...

  • Jurors deadlock on Jodi Arias penalty

    Jodi Arias stands as the jury enters the courtroom on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. Jodi Arias was convicted of first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting to death of Travis Alexander. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher, ...

  • Michael Parson guilty of attempted murder of wife

    The second day of the Michael Parson attempted murder trial closed with yet another embarrassing revelation as prosecutors read into the record a handwritten letter by the defendant to the woman with whom he was having an affair in which he described himself as a "sociopath." Prosecutors say Parson wrote the apology letter while on the run from police -- a suspect in the shooting his ...

  • Rockdale officer arrested discharged over child molestation charges

    ROCKDALE COUNTY, GA. -- A deputy with the Rockdale County Sheriff's Office has been arrested and terminated after being accused of child molestation in Conyers. 23-year-old Joseph Robert Harding was arrested on Thursday after Conyers Police concluded an investigation that Harding molested a known juvenile female acquaintance in April 2013. After his arrest, Harding was terminated by the ...


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Movie Review

Red Tails

Red Tails

George Lucas has been trying to get a movie about the Tuskegee Airmen, the barrier-breaking African American military aviators who fought during World War II, for close to 25 years. His efforts have been stymied again and again by Hollywood studios who insist that they cant market a big-budge ... ...

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  • Clayton officer fired after pointing gun at apt. resident

    LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -- "He says he is going to shoot me. And he has his hand on his pistol and he's supposed to be the Courtesy Officer." With those frantic words, Jonathan Fernandez began taking cell phone video of a man who appears to have his hand on a gun. He says the man in the video threatened to shoot him and his dog, after his pit bull mix Big Boy got loose yesterday. He ...

  • Workers to Atlanta council Raises are overdue

    ATLANTA -- A hundred public safety employees, their families and other backers, started the day outside city hall–loudly making a point about their city salaries "He's bringing home less than ever," said Kelly Uhlis, the wife of an Atlanta police sergeant. She and other raise-backers say city workers gave back five percent of their salaries at the start of Mayor Reed's ...

  • 67 dogs 2 guinea pigs seized from Gainesville home

    GAINESVILLE, Ga. -- Hall County Animal Control impounded nearly 70 animals from a home in North Hall County on Thursday, May 16. A neighbor had complained about the animals, so Animal Control officials went to the home on Bogus Road in Gainesville to find 67 dogs running loose along with two guinea pigs. The owners of the animals, according to Mike Ledford, Animal Services Director, were ...

  • Fire at Corner Tavern in Little 5 Points

    Corner Tavern fire The fire broke out shortly before 2 p.m. at the Corner Tavern at the corner of Moreland and Euclid avenues. No details about the fire were immediately available. Crews are still trying to determine how the fire began and the extent of the ...

  • Barnes Brooks to address fraud charges

    MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) - Georgia state Rep. Tyrone Brooks is set to appear at a news conference to address federal fraud and tax evasion charges against him. The news conference at 1 p.m. Thursday will be held at the Marietta office of Brooks' lawyer, former Gov. Roy Barnes. Brooks pleaded not guilty before a federal magistrate judge Wednesday. A 30-count federal indictment handed down last ...

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