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Craig Schneider

Craig Schneider works for The Hot News Team, which specializes in putting a local focus on national issues such as the economy, unemployment and health care. He started with the AJC in 1997 and has previously covered issues such as health, crime and county government. He is a graduate of Stony Brook University.

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Brunner Waterman, 15, crushes a Ford Taurus with owner Todd Liebross, 38, supervising at Tank Town USA, a heavy equipment playground where you can drive tanks and crush cars in Morganton. The experience was a surprise gift from his parents Eric and Heather Waterman who brought their two sons and a friend from Laurens, S.C., to make a life long memory.

Drive a tank; crush a car

There are few feelings more stirring to the soul than driving a tank and crushing a car with it.Believe me, when you’re driving a tank up the hood of a car, it’s nice. And just before the tank sends its 30,000 pounds down on the roof, there’s a pause that’s ...

Book evokes strong feelings

“Gone With the Wind” defined Atlanta, the South and the Civil War for millions of people around the world. As the novel turns 75, the conjunction of that event with the 150th anniversary of the war it depicts — inexcusably romanticizes, many would say — is crackling like crossed wires.Most ...

Halloween often no holiday for black cats

The black cat was carried into the woods near a Clayton County apartment complex, sprayed with flammable liquid and set on fire.In Stockbridge, someone tried to chemically burn a devil caricature, horns and all, into the face of a black kitten.As another Halloween approaches, animal activists and animal shelter officials ...

 Craig Schneider performs for the first time at this open-mic stage at Ragamuffin Music in Roswell.

Open mike: His 7 seconds made in heaven

To sing badly for people, and not to realize it, can be very embarrassing. I know; I have done this. For much of my life, whenever I have sung for people, they have — in short — urged me not to. So when I stepped to the microphone for my ...

'The thrill is back' for me in 'Les Miz'

ON STAGE "Les Miserables." Theater of the Stars, Fox Theatre. Through Sept. 28. 404-817-8700, ticketmaster.com I've seen "Les Miserables" about 18 times since the late 1980s. I'm not saying that makes me an expert —- just a fanatic. For years, while I was living in New York, I always seemed ...