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  • Ponce de Leon Avenue blocked by fallen tree

    ATLANTA -- Ponce de Leon Avenue in DeKalb County is completely blocked by a fallen tree Thursday morning. The tree fell near the intersection of Clifton Road shortly after 1:30 a.m. Drivers are asked to avoid the area as crews work to remove the tree. Possible alternate routes include McClendon Avenue, DeKalb Avenue and North Decatur Road. For the latest traffic conditions in metro Atlanta, ...

  • Smoke detector saves family from apartment fire

    FULTON COUNTY, Ga. -- A mother is crediting a smoke detector with saving her family from a fire Thursday morning. The blaze broke out at around 4:30 a.m. at an apartment on Camp Creek Drive in south Fulton County. Dispatchers said the fire was contained to one apartment, which had a working smoke detector. The resident said the smoke detector woke her up and allowed her to get her children out ...

  • 2 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 2 year old." The ...

  • Man killed in I-75 wreck identified

    FORSYTH, Ga. -- Authorities have identified a man who was killed in a Monroe County traffic accident as a 42-year-old Conyers man. Monroe County Sheriff's spokeswoman Allison Selman-Willis says Christopher Vesely lost control of the Lincoln Towncar he was driving on I-75 and was struck by a tractor trailer Tuesday night. Willis says Vesely's car then hit the median and was struck by a ...

  • Georgias jobless rate up slightly to 8.3 percent

    ATLANTA (AP) -- Georgia labor officials say the state's unemployment rate increased to 8.3 percent in May. The Georgia Department of Labor announced the seasonally adjusted rate early Thursday, saying it was up one-tenth of a percentage point from 8.2 percent in April. State Labor Commissioner Mark Butler said the rate increased because more job seekers entered the labor force looking for ...


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Bugsy [DVD]

Bugsy [DVD]

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    ATLANTA -- I know I sounded like a broken record for the past two weeks to many of you saying, "don't by sunglasses.Waita big sale is coming." If you held off, patience pays off for you in a big way today. Below you'll find the single best day of sunglasses we'll see all summer. A huge thanks to Deal Angels Julia, Rachel and Ada for weighing in on style and ...

  • 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 ...

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