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By Jeremiah McWilliams The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed has allowed a roughly 50 percent pay increase for City Council members to become law, but is also committing to sit down with employees next month to start hammering out an agreement on an across-the board pay increase for more than 7,500 rank and file staff. The move may help defuse anger among Atlanta employees who said the City Council pay increase was way [...] ATLANTA (CBS Atlanta) – A former fifth-grade teacher implicated in a cheating scandal reportedly gave students the illegal assistance because she thought they were “dumb as hell.” According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, math teacher Shayla Smith was accused of offering students the answers to a test they were taking at the time. She had reportedly been responsible for supervising them while the tests were being completed.
http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2012/08/28/school-teacher-helps-students-cheat-because-she-says-theyre-dumb-as-hell/ The grieving parents of a toddler who was among 13 children killed when a massive fire tore through Qatar’s largest shopping centre have told how firefighters did not arrive at the scene for one hour and, even then, they had to try to bribe them to help. Zeinah Aouani, aged two-and-a-half, from Atlanta, Georgia, died when the blaze destroyed the child care facility in Doha’s upmarket Villaggio mall on Monday. The girl’s mother, [...] Georgia LotteryA CNN producer is making headlines after her second big Georgia Lottery win in recent months. Jennifer Hauser of Atlanta, 29, claimed a $1 million prize Monday. Hauser won $100,000 in November. By Fran Jeffries The Atlanta Journal-Constitution She’s another recent two-timer. After winning $100,000 in November, a CNN producer has won big again in the Georgia Lottery. This time Jennifer Hauser of Atlanta scratched her way to a $1 million win on the instant game 50X [...] February 6th, 2012 Simon Black In one of the most shamefully disingenuous reports we’ve seen in years, the US Labor Department released the latest employment figures on Friday showing that the headline US unemployment rate had fallen to 8.3%. Champagne and sound bites were pre-positioned in Washington as the self-congratulatory praise flowed like the bubbly. President Obama, beaming like he’d just caught the winning touchdown pass, told the American people on Sunday [...] OF COURSE: Republican Sponsor of Bill Requiring Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients Arrested for DUIDailykos File this story in the overstuffed folder labeled Republican Hypocrisy That Borders on Satire. Georgia state Rep. Kip Smith, who is co-sponsor of a bill requiring that public assistance recipients be tested for drug abuse, has been arrested and charged with DUI. Smith, who has been pushing for mandatory drug testing of Georgia’s poorest citizens, was pulled over and arrested while driving his – wait for it – gold four-door Jaguar XJ8. As the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, [...] By Kristina Torres The Atlanta Journal-Constitution The state Senate voted Monday to ban local school boards from considering only a teacher’s hiring date when deciding whether to lay off him or her — or risk losing state funding if they don’t comply. Senate Bill 184, which passed the House last year, would mandate that boards must first consider teachers’ performance in the classroom. Proponents said they were aware of situations when instructors who had been [...] “The failed Range Fuels wood-to-ethanol factory in southeastern Georgia that sucked up $65 million in federal and state tax dollars was sold Tuesday for pennies on the dollar to another bio-fuel maker with equally grand plans to transform the alternative energy world,” writes Dan Chapman of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. - safewrite By Mike Morris The Atlanta Journal-Constitution What would you do if you won a $77 million lottery jackpot? What would you do if you didn’t discover that you had the winning ticket until AFTER the deadline for claiming the prize? That’s the scenario that could play out next week, because the 180-day window for the Georgia Lottery player who won the June 29 Powerball jackpot to come forward slams shut on Monday. That winning ticket, [...] By Christian Boone The Atlanta Journal-Constitution A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official was arrested Sunday and charged with two counts of child molestation and bestiality for sexual acts involving a 6-year-old boy. Kimberly Quinlan Lindsey’s boyfriend, Thomas Westerman, a night watchman for the CDC, was also arrested on two counts of child molestation, according to a DeKalb County criminal warrant. The pair surrendered to authorities Sunday [...]
Irene likely to lead to higher insurance premiums “The stocks of major insurers shot up on Monday as investors celebrated Irene’s less-than-expected damage. The storm didn’t even cause most analysts to adjust their profit estimates for insurers. In part, that’s because insurance companies have been raising premiums this year, especially for customers in high-risk areas. Homeowner and auto policies cost 5 to 10 percent more than they did [...] By Joel Provano and John Spink The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Thousands of people stood in line for free dental services Friday at a church in Woodstock. The two-day clinic at First Baptist Church of Woodstock on Hwy. 92 is being sponsored by the Georgia Dental Association and its Foundation for Oral Health. “The line went around the building, all the way through the parking lot and around a warehouse,” said [...] By Jeremy Redmon and Aaron Gould Sheinin The Atlanta Journal-Constitution CALHOUN — While U.S. Rep. Tom Graves was calling for fiscal responsibility in Washington his attorney was arguing in a lawsuit that a North Georgia bank is at fault for issuing Graves a $2.2 million loan the bank knew he could not repay. Graves was fighting a lawsuit along with business partner Chip Rogers, the state Senate majority [...] By Ty Tagami The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Parents of students at an Atlanta public school where cheating was alleged to have occurred on a statewide test on Tuesday night defended their school and teachers at a town hall meeting. “We’ve been extremely pleased with the instruction my children have received,” said Quinnie Cook-Richardson, one of several parents at the troubled West Manor Elementary School who spoke at the [...] By Bill Rankin The Atlanta Journal-Constitution The Georgia Supreme Court today rejected a stay of tonight’s scheduled execution of Cobb County killer Andrew Grant DeYoung, but it is allowing the lethal injection to be videotaped. The state Attorney General’s Office had asked the state’s highest court to vacate a judge’s order to allow the videotaping of tonight’s scheduled execution of Cobb County killer Andrew Grant DeYoung. “Executions in this state [...] (Credit: iStockphoto) (CBS/WGCL) CLAYTON, Ga. – A Georgia elementary school teacher was arrested last Friday on charges of public indecency after allegedly stripping and walking around the school naked. The teacher was reportedly upset about losing his job at Haynie Elementary School. Police said the teacher, Harlon Porter, learned that his employment contract wouldn’t be renewed 2 days before the incident occurred. During the arrest Porter [...] The weather Wednesday night is expected to be horrific, frightening and dangerous as a severe storm is expected to race across the metro area at about 50 mph. Glenn Burns, the chief meteorologist for Channel 2 Action News, said Tuesday evening the “significant tornado parameters” he’s been watching all day Tuesday are “off the scale.” “When it’s a 1, it means tornadoes are possible. At 3, it means they are likely. Ours [...] Alfred Murphy (photo credit: Fulton County Jail) ATLANTA, Ga. – A man police say grabbed paper towels from a maintenance cart at a rail station in Atlanta and used them to blow his nose wound up in jail. A police report says a man identified as Alfred Murphy grabbed the towels at a MARTA station Monday afternoon, and a transit system police officer told him he couldn’t do [...] |
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