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  • Atlanta Traffic from the WSB 24-hour Traffic Center

    Weekend Traffic Report: All construction is as the GA-DOT reports it and is weather-permitting, so all times, locations, and lanes blocked may change. Additional projects may turn up during the weekend as well, so listen for live updates on 95.5FM/AM-750 News/Talk WSB. Cobb/Fulton Co.: I-285/nb/eb/wb/sb (Inner and Outer Loops) between Paces Ferry Rd. and Powers Ferry Rd., in the two right lanes ...

  • Tied-up Atlanta woman uses toes to type message for help

    A US woman had to call for help by typing on the laptop with her toes after a burglar tied up her hands with the bed. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that police were alerted about the incident after they received a call from the boyfriend of the 39-year-old victim, Amy Windom. They said that the armed robbery took place at about midnight in the US city of Atlanta, Georgia. Police ...

  • Savannah Nash 16 Dies During Her First Solo Drive Believed To Be Texting

    Like most 16-year-old girls, Savannah Nash couldn't wait to get behind the wheel once she got her driver's license. Her first solo drive turned out to be her last. Nash, who turned 16 last week, got permission Thursday afternoon to drive to the grocery store in Harrisonville, Mo., to pick up items for the family ...

  • North Georgia town sued over mandatory gun law

    NELSON, Ga. (AP) -- A group that supports gun control is suing a north Georgia town that passed a law requiring gun ownership. The Washington-based Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the town of Nelson. The group claims the law is unconstitutional. It contends the Second Amendment doesn't require anyone to have a gun. City leaders passed an ...

  • Yeah but is it art Graffiti in Atlanta

    ATLANTA -- Imagine being so consumed with a creative desire for expression that you're willing to jog halfway across the city, sweating with a backpack and a can of spray paint; that you'd be willing to climb the highest walls just to get a blank 'canvas." "It's actually really good artwork," said one eyewitness in the West End. "And it happens so fast ...


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Movie Review

The Haunting

It's been a while since someone has made an out-and-out haunted house movie. Not a jokey, campy ghoul fest ala "House" (1986) or "The Frighteners" (1996), but a straight, fear-doused chiller. As a matter of fact, the only memorable ones I can think of in the last 20 years are Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" (1980) and Tobe Hooper's "Poltergeist" (1982). It's been that long. ...

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  • Pace Academy breaks ground on new Upper School

    ATLANTA (AP) - Pace Academy in Atlanta is breaking ground on its new Upper School. Officials at the private school say the 75,000-square-foot facility will replace the current Upper School, which was constructed in 1961. The new Arthur M. Blank Family Upper School will nearly double the space of the current Upper School and will include The Woodruff Library, a gift of Jane Woodruff and ...

  • Boy Scouts to vote on admitting gay members

    ATLANTA -- They were a few dozen parents and scouts out of the 34,000 represented by the 17 counties of the Atlanta Area Council. But they were adamant that the Boy Scouts could be on the verge of a crippling mistake-allowing local groups to admit gays. Several troop leaders said they would have to disband. "We don't see how we can be part of a national organization that refuses to ...

  • Atlanta city employees to erect billboard protesting pay

    ATLANTA -- Starting next week, drivers on the Downtown Connector will be greeted by a new billboard, thanks to a group of frustrated Atlanta city employees. More than 50 Atlanta police officers, firefighters and other city workers have chipped in to purchase the digital billboard, the latest step in a months-long campaign for increased pay. According to organizers, the sign, modeled after a ...

  • Thieves target highway drain grates for quick cash

    ATLANTA -- It's a story that has you saying "you're kidding me?" But we're not. The Georgia's Department of Transportation says in the last 5 years more than $500,000 worth of highway grates have been stolen. In the last 2 months, more than 600 grates have been taken. Each one weighs from 200 to 300 pounds. It's a costly epidemic on the Interstates across ...

  • Intruder dies after scuffle with mother and teen

    NW ATLANTA - A mother and her 16-year-old son fought off an intruder who died after a scuffle at a NW Atlanta home. Shevorney Lynch says the man who fathered three of her children made threatening phone calls before kicking in the door of her house on Martin Luther King Drive. "He said he was going to come do bad things to me," said Lynch. "Beat me up." 16-year-old Andre ...

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