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Veterans left homeless due to state budget cuts
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Sat Nov 29, 2008
This is moving day: Michael Seamands' cramped home for the past five years is no longer his. The landlord, the state of Georgia, says he has to go. More»

Woman Thrown in Georgia Jail After Lawn Care Complaint
WAGA-TV - Sat Nov 1, 2008
GAINESVILLE, Georgia - A Gainesville woman was put behind bars, lost her job and asked to pay a fine and it all started with a complaint about her lawn care. More»

Disabled Man Who Can Barely Move His Arms, Under Arrest For Obstruction, Simple Battery
WSB-TV - Mon Oct 13, 2008
ATLANTA - A disabled man is under arrest following an altercation with police at Hartsfield Jackson International Airport. More»

Georgia Men Claim They've Found Bigfoot
WSB-TV - Wed Aug 13, 2008
PALO ALTO, California - It could be an elaborate hoax or one of the biggest news stories of the summer. More»

Monkey From Mars: A Georgia Crime Lab's Museum Oddity
Associated Press - Tue Jul 29, 2008
DECATUR, Georgia - Other museums might have more or flashier items to display, but only the mini-museum of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation can boast of possessing such an other-world oddity as the monkey from Mars. More»

CDC lab containing deadly virus suffers power outage
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Sat Jul 12, 2008
A laboratory building that contains a deadly strain of avian flu and other germs is among four that lost power for more than an hour Friday when a backup generator system failed again at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More»

College Student Jailed For HOV Lane Violation
WSB-TV - Sun May 18, 2008
ATLANTA - College student Casey Metcalf received a citation for riding alone in an HOV lane. More»

Parents speak out on vaccine settlement
Associated Press - Sat Mar 8, 2008
ATLANTA - The parents of a girl who won a government settlement described how their hearts were broken as they watched their healthy, red-haired toddler transformed into an irritable, odd-behaving child after she got several childhood shots. More»

Government Concedes Vaccines May Have Injured Georgia Girl
Associated Press - Wed Mar 5, 2008
Government health officials have conceded that childhood vaccines worsened a rare, underlying disorder that ultimately led to autism-like symptoms in a Georgia girl. More»

Mad Cow: Schools stop use of beef from slaughterhouse under investigation
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Mon Feb 11, 2008
Georgia schools have put on hold 178,000 pounds of beef that came from a California slaughterhouse under federal investigation for allegations that it processed cattle at higher risk of mad cow disease. More»

Officer Suspended For Mailing 'Homewrecker' Flyers
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Fri Feb 8, 2008
DEKALB COUNTY, Georgia - A mother got a shocking flyer in the mail calling her daughter a homewrecker. More»

Police Officers Exchange Gunfire With Each Other
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Fri Feb 1, 2008
GWINNETT COUNTY, Georgia - Officials say two officers were shot in Gwinnett County Friday afternoon: One officer is accused of trying to assault a woman and then opening fire on another officer who tried to stop it. More»

Clerk's Error Keeps Freed Atlanta Man In Prison For 7 Months
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Mon Dec 17, 2007
An Atlanta man sentenced to four months in jail languished in state prison nearly a year because a clerk made an error recording the sentence and no one noticed. More»

Police Taser Handcuffed 14 year old girl
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Fri Nov 2, 2007
SNELLVILLE, Georgia - A police officer was "forced" to use a Taser on a handcuffed 14-year-old girl who became unruly while trick-or-treating on Halloween night in Gwinnett County, police said Friday. More»

Shots fired outside bar; cop arrested
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Sun Oct 14, 2007
MARIETTA, Georgia - An Atlanta police officer has been arrested and charged with shooting at a college student and his girlfriend after an argument in a Marietta bar. More»

In soup-kitchen freezers, more meat from hunters
Christian Science Monitor - Wed Oct 10, 2007
BOGART, Georgia - As the whiff of fall descends in northeast Georgia, Victor Devine readies his bow for an annual rite he's observed since boyhood: the deer hunt. More»

Examiner dfends "excited delirium" diagnosis in taser death
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Sat Oct 6, 2007
Gwinnett's medical examiner said she stands by her diagnosis in the death of a Norcross man who was tasered, even though she cited a condition that's not universally accepted. More»

Police Chief Arrested On Rape Charges
Associated Press - Tue Sep 18, 2007
LUTHERSVILLE, Georgia - The Luthersville police chief has been arrested on rape and other charges. More»

Chief Medical Examiner Accused of Witness Intimidation
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Wed Sep 12, 2007
Georgia's chief medical examiner, Kris Sperry, tried to intimidate and harass an expert who was to testify that there are problems with the state's method of execution in a pending federal lawsuit, according to lawyers for a longtime death row inmate. More»

Officer in a Snit - McDonald's Worker in Jail for Over-salting Burger
Associated Press - Sat Sep 8, 2007
UNION CITY, Gaeorgia - A 20-year-old McDonald's employee spent a night in jail and is facing criminal charges after a police officer complained that the burger she prepared with too much salt made him sick. More»

GA Sherrif Confesses to Ordering Murder of Sheriff-Elect
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Wed Aug 15, 2007
Former DeKalb County Sheriff Sidney Dorsey has confessed to ordering the murder of Sheriff-elect Derwin Brown, DeKalb District Attorney Gwen Keyes Fleming announced Thursday. More»

HomeBanc Mortgage Co Bouncing Checks Across Metro Atlanta
Associated Press - Tue Aug 14, 2007
ATLANTA - Dozens of Georgia real-estate lawyers are left holding millions of dollars worth of bad checks by HomeBanc's sudden exit from the mortgage lending business. More»

GA: Head of Water Dept Dumps Untreated Sludge in Public Park
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Fri Aug 10, 2007
Leon Forrer receives plenty of calls about environmental problems, so he wasn't surprised when he heard about an illegal dump at a park in McDonough. More»

Teen Jailed Over Ticket He Had Already Paid
WSB-TV - Wed Aug 1, 2007
ATLANTA - An error by police caused a teenager to be briefly jailed over a traffic ticket he had already paid the fine for. More»

GA sheriff charged with cover-up in shooting
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Mon Jul 30, 2007
The Towns County sheriff has been released on $250,000 bond on charges he tried cover up for his chief deputy, who is accused to shooting up the house of his wife's lover. More»

Elderly Atlantan Shot by Police - Informant Told by Police to Lie
CNN - Mon Nov 27, 2006
ATLANTA, Georgia - An informant cited in a search warrant as having purchased narcotics at an elderly Atlanta woman's house denies buying drugs there, authorities say. More»

Report: McKinney Punches Cop
WXIA-TV - Wed Mar 29, 2006
According to sources on Capitol Hill, US Representative Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) punched a Capitol police officer on Wednesday afternoon after he mistakenly pursued her for failing to pass through a metal detector. More»

ChoicePoint Wins Big Brother Award
Wired - Sun Apr 17, 2005
A data broker that sold personal information to identity thieves, an elementary school that tried to track students with radio-frequency ID tags and a consulting firm that helped orchestrate an invasive traveler-monitoring system all received honors this week from privacy rights advocates. More»

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