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Buckhead
Buckhead, located a few miles from downtown, is one of Atlanta's wealthiest suburbs with upscale restaurants, hotels and trendy bars.
World of Coca-Cola
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Stone Mountain Park
Located on 3,200 acres of natural beauty, Stone Mountain Park features a wide variety of fun family activities and things to do in the Atlanta, Georgia area. Amazing adventures await as you discover interactive children's attractions. Plus you'll not want to miss such fun annual events as the Yellow Daisy Festival or the Indian PowWow.
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Atlanta News \| ajc.com

Franklin promises to veto fire station funds
8/21/2008 12:47 PM
Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin said Thursday she still plans to veto the City Council's legislation to reopen Fire Station 7. The council voted 13-1 Monday to take $1.1 million from other city funds to pay for the reopening of the station near the West End Mall and the Atlanta University Center. Franklin ordered the station closed last month as par......

Cameras reduce red-light running, raise city funds
8/21/2008 9:47 AM
Atlanta put cameras at the most dangerous intersections in 2006 to cut down on crashes. The Red Light Camera Enforcement Program began at six intersections, and the city added cameras at two more the next year. The cameras snap photos of motorists who run red lights, and Municipal Court mails them a letter that includes the evidence for the fine: p......

King family lawsuit called 'disheartening'
8/21/2008 7:09 AM
It is a fight over money and power, philosophies and principles, petty misunderstandings and silly squabbles. The bitter family feud that has divided the children of Martin Luther King Jr. isn't much different than other fights between brothers and sisters -- except that this one has spilled into the courts and publicly tarnished the legacy of an A......

Georgia colleges reject effort to lower drinking age
8/20/2008 6:30 PM
Several Georgia colleges are distancing themselves from a nationwide debate about lowering the legal drinking age. On Wednesday, the University of Georgia, Georgia Tech, Emory University, Georgia State University, Morehouse College and Agnes Scott College confirmed they were not taking part in the Amethyst Initiative. Amethyst asks college presiden......

Delayed Fulton tax bills arriving this week
8/20/2008 5:56 PM
Property owners in Fulton County should receive their tax bills by the end of the week, county officials said Wednesday. Tax Commissioner Arthur Ferdinand said there was a delay in mailing the bills this year because of the large number of homeowners appealing the county's assessments for 2008. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Doris Downs approve......

Atlanta archbishop to testify in sexual misconduct trial
8/20/2008 3:16 PM
Catholic Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory of Atlanta has been called to testify in a civil suit over allegations of sexual misconduct by an Illinois priest. Gregory served as Roman Catholic Archbishop of Belleville, in southwestern Illinois near St. Louis, from 1994 to 2004. Jim Wisniewski of Champaign, Ill., claims that the Rev. Raymond Kownacki repea......

Ex-Ga. Tech worker gets 2.6 years for purchases
8/20/2008 10:47 AM
In the end, a former Georgia Tech employee who stole $316,000 with university credit cards stood mute before a federal judge as she was sentenced to 32 months in prison. Donna Renee Gamble of Marietta was too embarrassed to talk in open court Tuesday or to even ask friends to come and speak on her behalf, said her defense attorney, Jimmy Berry. He ......

Thieves hit Rosa Arnold preschool; neighbors step in
8/20/2008 10:10 AM
Rosa Arnold's free day care for underprivileged kids has had a roller-coaster summer. It's been homeless, found a new home, became a crime victim and was embraced by its new neighborhood. Early this month, Arnold was riding an upswing. After her landlord refused to renew her lease, her shoestring operation found a new home at Ormewood Park Presbyt......

Jury deadlocks in road rage trial
8/20/2008 6:29 AM
A Fulton County Superior Court jury couldn't decide if an Atlanta man accused of fatally shooting an Iraq war veteran three years ago during a traffic argument was guilty. The case against 27-year-old Charles Anthony Key ended Tuesday in a mistrial. "They've been deadlocked the whole time," said Fulton County assistant District Attorney Eleanor Ros......

Court can use Georgia Tech student's jihad statement
8/19/2008 4:59 PM
Atlanta terrorism defendant Syed Haris Ahmed's statements that he considered planning a terrorist attack and dying a martyr waging jihad can be used against him at trial, a judge has ruled. Handing federal prosecutors a major victory, U.S. Magistrate Gerrilyn Brill rejected arguments that the former Georgia Tech student was coerced by agents into m......

Metro News \| ajc.com

Fay may bring floods to South Georgia today
8/21/2008 12:47 PM
Flood watches were posted across extreme South Georgia Thursday as the outer rain bands from meandering Tropical Storm Fay began spreading into the state.......

Franklin promises to veto fire station funds
8/21/2008 12:47 PM
Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin said Thursday she still plans to veto the City Council's legislation to reopen Fire Station 7.......

Chick-fil-A restores curb; will city have to pay?
8/21/2008 12:35 PM
First you saw it, now you don't.......

Ex-Lassiter athlete gets 6 months for teacher attack
8/21/2008 12:28 PM
A former Lassiter High School running back, son of a well-known NFL player, pleaded guilty to two counts of battery Wednesday in Cobb Superior Court.......

State may privatize mental hospitals; advocates angry
8/21/2008 11:53 AM
Georgia may turn some of its troubled state psychiatric hospitals over to private operators as it prepares to make deep cuts in mental health spending.......

Cities to Perdue: Don't yank tax grants
8/21/2008 11:52 AM
Georgia's slumping economy already has local governments cutting staff, reducing programs and raising taxes.......

Lawyer: School board complaint is about race
8/21/2008 11:37 AM
An attorney for four Clayton County school board members argued before a state administrative judge Wednesday that the only thing his clients are guilty of is being black.......

Police: Swastika is 'outrage' over school's expansion
8/21/2008 10:21 AM
Sandy Springs police spokesman said Thursday he believes vandalism Tuesday night near the Epstein School was likely done by a resident angry over a City Council vote to allow another private school in the North Fulton city to build an athletic complex.......

Some coastal Georgia schools close ahead of storm
8/21/2008 10:03 AM
Two coastal Georgia counties are closing schools as Tropical Storm Fay is forecast to bring wind and heavy rains to south Georgia.......

Cumberland Island visitors evacuated ahead of storm
8/21/2008 10:02 AM
The National Park Service is closing Cumberland Island to visitors as Tropical Storm Fay creeps toward the Georgia-Florida border.......

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