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Local News from WSB-TV 2 Atlanta via Yahoo! News

Panasonic Closing Peachtree City Plant; 400 Jobs Lost

Sep 5, 2008 8:32 pm

PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. -- Panasonic is closing its car stereo manufacturing plant by the end of next year, meaning that 400 people will lose their jobs. The plant closing is one of the largest business c...

 

Hanna Closes Georgia Ports

Sep 5, 2008 7:47 pm

Officials have closed southern Atlantic ports as the area prepares for Tropical Storm Hanna.

 

Metro Atlanta Congressman Calls Obamas 'Uppity'

Sep 5, 2008 5:32 pm

Rep. Lynn Westmoreland said he's not aware the term is considered offensive by some African-Americans.

 

Alligator Captured At Lake Lanier

Sep 5, 2008 2:32 pm

A Gainesville homeowner spotted the alligator in his back yard near Lake Lanier.

 

Braves Notch Back-To-Back Wins Over Nats

Sep 5, 2008 9:47 am

Rookie Brandon Jones highlighted a seven-run third inning with a three-run double, carrying Atlanta to a 10-5 win over the Washington Nationals.

 

Police: Woman Tracked Down Driver Who Hit Child

Sep 4, 2008 9:22 pm

A 5-year-old Dawson County boy was about to get on his school bus Thursday morning when he was hit by a passing car. Police say a quick-thinking mother followed the hit and run driver and called polic...

 

Family Racks Up Nearly $20,000 Phone Bill

Sep 4, 2008 6:37 pm

An Oregon family racks up nearly $20,000 on their AT&T bill.

 

Student At SC High School Tasered In Parking Lot

Sep 4, 2008 5:23 pm

FORT MILL, S.C. -- Authorities say a student at Indian Land High School was shot with a Taser after he hit a police officer during an argument with his mother and the principal.

 

Dogs Dragged In 2 Alabama Counties

Sep 4, 2008 5:22 pm

FLOMATON, Ala. -- Animal cruelty cases are under investigation in Escambia and Monroe counties. Each involved dogs that were deliberately dragged behind a vehicle.

 

Panda Cub Continues Recovery With Mom

Sep 4, 2008 3:22 pm

The nine day old panda cub at Zoo Atlanta continued to recover Thursday with his mother after a mysterious medical problem on Monday.

 
 

News and Lifestyle Information from The Augusta Chronicle

Living briefs

Mar 29, 2006 7:20 pm

Storm Team 12 at WRDW-TV (CBS) is joining with Fort Discovery to present StormFest from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday in Classroom E and the PowerStation at Fort Discovery, 1 Seventh St.

 

Men's shoppng magazine, Cargo, to shut down

Mar 29, 2006 7:18 pm

NEW YORK - Cargo magazine, a shopping guide for men that was launched by Conde Nast Publications Inc. with much fanfare two years ago, is shutting down with its May issue, the publisher announced.

 

Bluetooth group adopts ultrafast radio technology

Mar 29, 2006 7:18 pm

NEW YORK - The Bluetooth wireless standard used in cell phones and other small devices will take a leap in transmission speed, broadening its scope to enable high-definition video and files for digita...

 

Hospitals are not immune to power of superstition

Mar 29, 2006 7:18 pm

NEW YORK - Many of his patients know Dr. Todd Ponsky as the man who saved their lives, but to his colleagues, he's known as The Black Cloud.

 

Watch your mouth! Use of profanity getting worse

Mar 29, 2006 7:17 pm

This is a story about words we can't print in this story.

 
 

News from Macon and Central Georgia from The Macon News

New leash on life: Firefighter revives puppy after house fire in Macon

Sep 6, 2008 5:48 am

A Macon-Bibb County firefighter brought Gizmo back to life Friday morning.

 

Ga. school superintendent wins big on '5th Grader'

Sep 6, 2008 5:44 am

Georgia schools Superintendent Kathy Cox proved she is smarter than a 5th-grader, winning a $1 million for her school system on a popular game show Friday night.

 

Bibb school system ordered to repay $50K to state teachers retirement plan

Sep 6, 2008 5:44 am

The Bibb County public school system has been ordered to reimburse the state teachers retirement plan more than $50,000 the plan paid to a Bibb schools consultant.

 

Company picked for College Hill Corridor design

Sep 6, 2008 5:42 am

Organizers from the College Hill Corridor announced Friday they have selected the Philadelphia-based firm Interface Studios to come up with the corridor's design and master plan.

 

United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta sets $82.2M

Sep 6, 2008 5:42 am

United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta will use a new campaign encouraging Georgians to "Live United" with a goal of raising $82.2 million over the next year.

 

Douglass showcases photography from group of special-needs adults

Sep 6, 2008 5:42 am

The photography of a group made up largely of special-needs adults will be on display at the Douglass Theatre in downtown Macon this month.

 

Macon police investigate hit-and-run accident that caused woman's death, left man injured

Sep 6, 2008 5:41 am

A woman died late Friday following a hit-and-run accident near Unionville in Macon. A man also was injured in the incident.

 

Georgia's July unemployment rate tops August national rate

Sep 6, 2008 5:41 am

Although Georgia's unemployment rate hasn't been posted for August, the rate has been mostly trending upward all year.

 

When storms batter islands, taxpayers get hit

Sep 6, 2008 5:27 am

Scraped away by two storms since last year, the beach vanishes behind Carlyle Buelvas' home at high tide, when waves lick the dune a few feet from her back porch and lap at the unprotected rental cond...

 

New law clinic helps homeless

Sep 6, 2008 5:12 am

Organizers of a month-old free legal clinic designed to aid Atlanta's ever expanding homeless population say the service is already beginning to make a difference.

 
 

Statewide Headlines from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

State parks feel the pain as money dries up

Sep 6, 2008 1:54 am

Amicalola Falls State Park and Lodge in the North Georgia mountains is one of the state's most popular parks. More than 600,000 people visit every year. They can climb a 604-step staircase to the top ...

 

Executions: Parole board grants Davis a hearing, denies Alderman

Sep 6, 2008 12:15 am

The state Board of Pardons and Paroles agreed Friday to hear from advocates for convicted cop killer Troy Anthony Davis, who is set to die by lethal injection on Sept. 23. Davis sits on death row for ...

 

Milledgeville veterans must find new place to live

Sep 5, 2008 11:53 pm

Eighty-one veterans, all with health problems, have been told they must find another place to live by Nov. 30 because budget cuts are forcing the state to close the Milledgeville domiciliary unit at t...

 

Lavonia buys out strip club

Sep 5, 2008 7:01 pm

LAVONIA — The windowless building that once housed the town's only strip club sits empty in the middle of a sprawling gravel parking lot, made all the uglier by the scars from its final part...

 

Coast Guard closes ports in Savannah, Brunswick

Sep 5, 2008 4:16 pm

Savannah — The U.S. Coast Guard has closed the ports of Savannah and Brunswick to inbound vessels because of Tropical Storm Hanna. Robert Morris, spokesman for the Georgia Port Authority, sa...

 

Dawson County woman chases down hit-and-run driver

Sep 5, 2008 2:32 pm

A Dawson County woman who saw a car drive off after hitting a 5-year-old boy followed the driver and held him until authorities arrived to arrest him. DeShan Fishel dropped her child off at school whe...

 

Kathy Cox tests smarts on '5th Grader'

Sep 4, 2008 10:39 pm

Georgia will learn Friday night whether state schools Superintendent Kathy Cox is smarter than a fifth-grader. Cox will appear on the season premiere of the popular game show, "Are You Smarter Th...

 

Tropical storm watch issued for coastal Georgia

Sep 4, 2008 5:41 pm

A tropical storm watch was issued for Georgia's coast Thursday as Hanna continued on a track toward landfall in the Carolinas, sparing Georgia from any threat of a direct hit. Emergency officials in S...

 

Davis execution scheduled; 7 witnesses have recanted

Sep 4, 2008 5:34 pm

A convicted cop killer who witnesses now say maybe didn't do it was scheduled Wednesday to be executed later this month for the 1989 murder of off-duty Savannah police officer Mark Allen McPhail. Troy...

 

Atlantans can save $9,129 a year by using mass transit, group says

Sep 4, 2008 4:39 pm

The average Atlanta household using mass transit saves $9,129 a year by not driving, according to a transit advocacy group. That's $3,000 more than the average American household spends on food, said ...

 
 

Metro Atlanta News and Information from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Kathy Cox outsmarts 5th-graders, wins a million

Sep 6, 2008 3:30 am

The fifth-graders never had a chance. Georgia State school superintendent Kathy Cox became the first $1 million winner Friday night on the FOX TV series "Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader&quo...

 

Peachtree City Panasonic plant to cut 500 jobs

Sep 6, 2008 3:11 am

Panasonic's car stereo manufacturing plant in Peachtree City will close by the end of next year, resulting in the loss of 500 jobs, a company spokesman said Friday.

 

Kidnapped man escapes, jumps to truck on I-285

Sep 6, 2008 2:55 am

Bruce Hembree was supposed to be driving home with a load of lumber in the back of his pickup truck.

 

Palin may bring more Georgia evangelicals to McCain camp

Sep 6, 2008 2:08 am

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, with her conservative Christian credentials, appears to have turned grudging support from Georgia evangelicals into an excited buzz that may translate into votes for John McCa...

 

State parks feel the pain as money dries up

Sep 6, 2008 1:54 am

Amicalola Falls State Park and Lodge in the North Georgia mountains is one of the state's most popular parks. More than 600,000 people visit every year.

 

Book: Brian Nichols called in threats while on the loose

Sep 6, 2008 1:33 am

Brian Nichols apparently watched television newscasts in the hours after the accused rapist escaped from the Fulton County Courthouse in March 2005, killing a judge, a court stenographer, a sheriff's ...

 

Hopes dim for Clayton school board; old issues remain

Sep 6, 2008 12:50 am

After his two fellow members stood him up at a meeting, a new Clayton County school board member said Friday there is little hope the troubled district will regain accreditation.

 

Grady to other hospitals: Take your share of poor patients

Sep 6, 2008 12:43 am

New Grady hospital CEO Michael Young fired a shot across the bows of metro Atlanta hospitals Friday, saying they should stop sending their uninsured patients to Grady.

 

Executions: Parole board grants Davis a hearing, denies Alderman

Sep 6, 2008 12:15 am

The state Board of Pardons and Paroles agreed Friday to hear from advocates for convicted cop killer Troy Anthony Davis, who is set to die by lethal injection on Sept. 23.

 

Milledgeville veterans must find new place to live

Sep 5, 2008 11:53 pm

Eighty-one veterans, all with health problems, have been told they must find another place to live by Nov. 30 because budget cuts are forcing the state to close the Milledgeville domiciliary unit at t...