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  • Atlanta Traffic from the WSB 24-hour Traffic Center

    Ongoing Construction and Other Closures: If you see construction or other closures in your area, let us know at #750 for free on Verizon Wireless or 404-897-7358 to the Alarm Force WSB 24-Hour Traffic Center. The lines are open 24/7/365. Hall Co.: Road Closures/Flooding Damage...Cove Creek Dr. off of Lights Ferry Rd., Stephens Rd. off of Jim Crow Rd. Both roads are restricted to residents only - ...

  • Wednesdays Games Gattis Homer Helps Atlanta Sweep Twins

    ATLANTA | Evan Gattis hit his first career grand slam. B.J. Upton and Ramiro Pena also homered for the Braves, who finished off a sweep of the woeful Minnesota Twins with an 8-3 ...

  • Local national groups demand answers in Valdosta teens death

    17-year-old Kendrick Johnson was found dead at his Lowndes County high school in January. His parents believe his death was not properly ...

  • Metros unemployment rate declines in April

    ATLANTA -- Metro Atlanta's unemployment rate declined to 7.6 percent in April, down three-tenths of a percentage point from 7.9 percent in March. The rate was 8.5 percent in April a year ago. The Georgia Department of Labor announced Thursday that the rate declined as the number of jobs in metro Atlanta increased by 12,900 to 2,394,100, up from 2,381,200 in March. Most of the growth came ...

  • Resident alien served on Bartow County grand jury

    CARTERSVILLE, Ga. -- A non-U.S.-citizen, a woman who is a resident alien and is legally in the U.S., served as member of a Bartow County Grand Jury for most of last month. During the April term of the Grand Jury, the woman was helping indict U.S. citizens, leading to their arrests on various criminal charges. District Attorney Rosemary Greene said Wednesday that the woman was kicked off of the ...


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Movie Review

The Shootist [DVD]

The Shootist [DVD]

When, at the age of 69, the legendary John Wayne starred in The Shootist as John Bernard Books, an aging gunslinger dying of cancer at the turn of the 20th century, he himself was dying of cancer. Having already had half a lung removed to stop the spread of what he referred to as "the Big C," Wayne was in poor physical health during the shooting of the movie, constantly sick with gout, flu ... ...

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  • Billboards demand raises for Atlanta police firefighters www.privateofficer.com

    The wives of Atlanta police and firefighters have put up billboards telling Mayor Kasim Reed and the Atlanta City Council to give their spouses a pay raise. The group of wives held fundraisers to pay for the billboards to send that message to City Hall. ';We mean business. We are serious about getting our first responders and dispatchers a raise,'; said Kelly Uhlis, the wife of an ...

  • Atlanta banker steals $10K from 90-year-old customer www.privateofficer.com

    Mary Massey thought she was signing a slip to transfer money from her checking account into her savings account. Turns out, the 90-year-old was being tricked into signing a cash withdrawal slip, Atlanta police said Tuesday. And once the $10,600 was taken from Massey's account, a bank employee deposited it into his personal account, according to police. Now authorities are looking for ...

  • Sell cheap fuel and profit - Delta Air Lines refining 101

    NEW YORK, May 23 (Reuters) - Making money in the refining business is generally a pretty straightforward proposition: sell your fuel at the highest possible price relative to ...

  • Clayton Co. officer charged with pointing gun at apartment 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 ...

  • Defendant Michael Parson calls himself a sociopath in letter to mistress

    ATLANTA -- 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 ...

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