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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 ...
Dalton revels in rare good news
DALTON — The happiest place in Georgia Wednesday may well have been the unemployment office in this recession-wracked town. David Jordy, 26, was applying for unemployment benefits when he heard the news that two new carpet plants will bring an estimated 2,400 jobs to Whitfield County (county seat: Dalton) and ...
Festivals help calm a week of woe
After a week of fear and grieving in the wake of the Boston terror attack, metro Atlantans found relief Saturday in a slew of springtime festivals that brought together sunshine, community and, of course, corn dogs. From the Atlanta Dogwood Festival to Kennesaw’s Big Shanty celebration, parks thrummed with crowds ...
DFCS report: 152 Georgia children died with agency history
The tally is in: 152 children died in Georgia last year whose families had a history with the state child protection agency. But whether that’s an increase or decrease from previous years, agency officials can’t say. They dismiss past years’ figures as inaccurate. And though they say they’ve improved their ...
In Boston, a replay of Atlanta’s Olympic nightmare
“It’s Atlanta reincarnated.” With those words, former GBI supervisor Charles Stone captured what many Atlantans felt: the jolting similarities between Boston bombing and the one that struck the Atlanta Olympics 17 years ago. On Tuesday, Centennial Olympic Park looked much as usual with children squealing in the ring fountain, tourists ...
Previous coverage: Rise in child deaths sparks concern
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Nov. 10, 2012. One hundred twenty Georgia children died in the first nine months of 2012 after their families came to the attention of the state Division of Family and Children Services, the agency revealed Friday. That's more than ...
Moving to Nelson? Pack a gun
The people of Nelson want the world to know they have guns. Lots of ‘em. Monday night, this city of 1,300 people on the border of Cherokee and Pickens counties made it law that the head of every household must own a gun and bullets. With that unanimous vote, the ...
Controversy still stewing over chicken plant rules
The U.S. Department of Agriculture wants to pull most of its inspectors off production lines at poultry slaughter plants and allow the lines to run faster, but the proposal is going nowhere fast. The changes, unveiled 15 months ago by the USDA and reported last year by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, ...
Slow progress on food safety regs
Four years ago, a salmonella outbreak swept across the country. Seven people died, hundreds were sickened. Washington held hearings and in Georgia, home of the peanut processing company that caused the outbreak, leaders vowed swift change. And changes are occurring — but in regulatory time, which, compared to ordinary human ...
California death spurs questions for Georgia seniors
Carol Hart, who is 88, was disturbed when a California woman died after a nurse at an independent living facility refused to administer CPR, citing company policy.“I think it’s wrong,” said Hart, who resides in the independent living section of the Renaissance on Peachtree in Atlanta, which offers both independent ...
State sees dramatic rise in salmonella
Georgians are at greater risk of contracting salmonella food poisoning today than a decade ago, according to figures from the federal Centers for Disease Control. The figures, reviewed by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, fly in the face of promises by state and federal health officials to improve food safety following national ...
Budget cuts met with fear, loathing and applause
For Martha Brand, who is 81, the $85 billion in automatic budget cuts that went into effect Friday add up to one thing: another reason to fear and loathe Washington politicians. “All these automatic, going-over-the-cliff problems are just putting fear and anxiety on the people of America, especially senior citizens,” ...
Four indicted in peanut deaths linked to Ga. plant
The south Georgia peanut company knew its products were tainted with salmonella but sold them anyway, federal officials say. And, they say, when investigators tracked a 2009 salmonella outbreak that killed nine and sickened more than 700 in 42 states to the Peanut Corporation of America plant, company officials lied. ...
Poll: MARTA riders have stronger connection than nonriders to Atlanta region
Living across from an Atlanta MARTA station, Matt Duncan likes to ride the train to downtown or hop a bus to Buckhead or Inman Park. More than a way to get around, these transit lines help him feel more a part of metro Atlanta life. “You feel more in it, ...
Officials: 6-year-old started fire that killed 4 siblings
A 6-year-old boy started the fire that killed his four siblings in Conyers late Tuesday, authorities said Friday. However, the boy will not face criminal charges. “We have had preliminary discussions with the district attorney of Rockdale County, and it’s his belief that this 6-year-old and any 6-year-old cannot form ...
Heavy storms across the nation disrupt post-holiday travel
A severe winter storm system that created heavy snow and high winds from the Midwest heading to the Northeast is disrupting holiday travel to and from Atlanta. Many metro Atlantans wanting to come home after the Christmas holiday, and guests here who need to head out, faced harsh driving weather ...
Dawn brings fear rather than promise for many Georgia voters
Steve Ramey rolled out of bed Wednesday, downed a cup of coffee, and banged out an email affirming his “determination and resolve not to let the election of Obama destroy this nation.” Then he mailed it to 800 people. “We must and will do all we can to save our ...
Georgians see hint of a rebound
Things are looking up in Georgia — from the bottom of a deep hole. That, more or less, was the picture that emerged Wednesday with the Census Bureau’s yearly report on household income, poverty and the number of people who have health insurance. Median household income in Georgia rose by ...
Family of dead man blames wrong-way driver, passenger
Two weeks after she survived a head-on collision that killed two others, Beyonica Watts acknowledges she and her friend behind the wheel were drunk and heading the wrong way on Ga. 400. But she believes blame for the crash, which fatally injured her friend and the man in the other ...
Police: Hall County teen's death a homicide
Days before her body was found not far from her home near Lake Lanier, Hannah Truelove sent out puzzling messages on Twitter. Now police and family are struggling to determine whether those handful of tweets were the over-dramatizing of a teenage mind or precursors - if not clues - to ...
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