Atlanta Leader news Atlanta Leader news Rss feed

  • Memorial Day through 1st grade eyes

    Marietta, Ga. -- Saturday morning hundreds of scouts gathered in Marietta in the same way they have for decades-to honor the fallen on Memorial Day weekend. They scattered out over the grounds of the Marietta National Cemetery to place a flag at each of the nearly 18,000 veterans' graves. "It's important to remember that every name here, they had a family too, they had a ...

  • Deaths at Atlanta VA hospital prompt scrutiny

    ATLANTA -; Four deaths at the Atlanta VA Medical Center mark the latest in a series of problems plaguing Veterans Affairs, prompting outrage from officials and congressional scrutiny of the largest integrated health care system in the ...

  • Filmmaker actor Tyler Perry donates $100K to help student athletes in Ohio schools

    COLUMBUS, Ohio - Filmmaker and actor Tyler Perry has surprised middle school students in Ohio by showing up at a musical concert and donating $100,000 to help student athletes in the city's South-Western schools. The Columbus Dispatch ...

  • Thieves steal boat from boy recovering from cancer

    MARIETTA, Ga. -- The Cooley family of Marietta had been looking forward to this summer more than any in recent years. It was the first one where their middle son Chase could feel more like a kid again. He'd been fighting a treatable form of Leukemia for several years, and things were finally looking up. "For the first time in three years he was going to be able to really get out ...

  • New boating safety laws take the lakes for Memorial Day

    (WXIA) -- Vacationers will pack the lakes this holiday weekend, and boaters should keep some new rules in mind. Patrolling on the lake this weekend will be high, as DNR rangers will look for proper lighting on boats after sunset, life vests and those who have had too much to drink. Rangers want to see children and all passengers wearing life vests that fit properly. Boater Randale Keisler ...


clear
Atlanta Weather
80.9°F Clear
Winds: Calm
Sun
clear
82° 54°
Mon
clear
88° 57°
Tue
partlycloudy
88° 61°
Last Updated on May 25, 4:51 PM EDT
Weather sourced from Weather Underground

Movie Review

Alien Resurrection

The last anyone saw of Lt. Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), she was hurling herself off a bridge into a vat of molten metal with an alien bursting from her chest. The was the grand finale of "Alien 3," and it was reasonable to assume that this signaled the end of the "Alien" series. Wrong. ...

On Facebook

  • Family boat stolen by thief

    MARIETTA, Ga. -- The Cooley family of Marietta had been looking forward to this summer more than any in recent years. It was the first one where their middle son Chase could feel more like a kid again. He'd been fighting a treatable form of Leukemia for several years, and things were finally looking up. "For the first time in three years he was going to be able to really get out ...

  • Shuttle bus tractor-trailer crash near Atlanta airport at least 16 injured

    At least 18 people were injured when an airport shuttle bus crashed into a tractor-trailer near Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown ...

  • School bus driver fired over Facebook post about student lunch

    HARALSON COUNTY, Ga. -- A metro Atlanta school district is being accused of not providing free lunches to its students in need. When one employee spoke up about it on social media, he lost his job. Johnny Cook was a middle school bus driver at Haralson County Middle School. On Tuesday, he says, one of his students, who could not afford a reduced lunch, told Cook he was not given any lunch -- ...

  • The perjury case against Andrea Sneiderman

    DECATUR, GA -- It was an emotional outburst on the witness stand: "There was no affair!" Within it, lies one of six counts of perjury against Andrea Sneiderman, according to a revised indictment quietly returned last month in her murder case. The revised indictment alleges that Mrs. Sneiderman lied on the witness stand in February 2011 when she denied having an affair with Hemy ...

  • Buckhead mom gets jail for stealing $80K from PTA

    A Buckhead woman who pleaded guilty to stealing $80,000 from an elementary school PTA will spend 90 days behind bars, the Fulton County District Attorney said Friday.Maryam Lari Arjomand, 48, a former president of the E. Rivers Elementary School PTA, was arrested in April 2012 and charged with theft after at least $80,000 was stolen from the school.Investigators determined the missing funds had ...

More Atlanta Leader news