A 14-year-old boy was killed and his 13-year-old sister was injured early Sunday when a truck crashed into their Cobb County bedrooms.

Police say Janette L. Eason of Dallas was likely drunk when she drove into the one-story home at about 3 a.m. after knocking down at least three mailboxes and small utility boxes in the Powder Springs neighborhood.  Read More

He denies his house is going forclosed.  He should of started his own Foreman Grills.

 Chipper Jones finally hit 400, but that doesn’t mean he can stop talking about .400.

He hit his 400th career home run Thursday against Marlins pitcher Ricky Nolasco. He joined Mickey Mantle (536) and Eddie Murray (504) as the only switch-hitters in baseball history to reach that mark. But just as one milestone is reached, another pursuit enters the third month of the sixth-month baseball season.

Jones, the Atlanta Braves’ third baseman, is trying to become the first player to hit .400 since Ted Williams hit .406 in 1941.

“I’d be lying if I said people don’t like attention,” Jones said. “We all like attention. It has been fun up to this point with the 400 homers and hitting .400, although I think that’s a little far-fetched to be talking about it the first week of June.”

Jones is hitting .420 after going 1 for 3 with a two-run homer last night at Turner Field.  Read On

ATLANTA —Sometimes no matter how many times you warn people about something, there are always folks who just don’t get the word, or pay attention. That happened to several drivers who had to do U-turns at either end of midtown Atlanta’s 14th Street bridge during Tuesday morning’s rush hour.

Barricades went up on both… read on . Continue Reading »
14th Street bridged is closed

Jan Brown loves the wine department at her neighborhood Whole Foods Market, but not the law preventing her from buying wine on Sunday.

“Sometimes you’re in a panic if you’re having people over for dinner and you can’t buy wine. It would be great if you could buy a bottle Sunday afternoon,” she said.

Only Georgia, Indiana and Connecticut prohibit beer and wine sales on Sunday, and a trade association is hoping to change that next year.

“Customers are requesting it and retailers are here for customer service,” said Kathy Kuzava, who heads the Georgia food industry association.

Her organization represents major retailers as well as with smaller independent stores. The Food Industry Association along with the Georgia Association of Convenience Stores plans to lobby the legislature to lift the ban on Sunday beer and wine sales, though not liquor sales.  Read On

US Airways’ proposed takeover of bankrupt Delta Air Lines throws another major curve at the tumultuous carrier, its stake in Atlanta and the airline industry as a whole.

 If successful, the $8 billion hostile bid would likely result in fewer airline workers and flights — and the uprooting of yet another corporate icon from Atlanta. Delta, which employs about 25,000 locally, would keep its name in the proposed deal but could lose its headquarters here. Read On

State Representative Mary Margaret Oliver (D-Decatur) says she wants Georgia to follow the lead of ten other states in restricting 16 and 17-year-olds from talking on the phone while driving.

Oliver says new drivers cannot afford the extra distraction of talking while driving.

Oliver is also proposing a “distracted driver bill” that would fine people who cause accidents while talking on a cell phone, $500. Read On

Tuesday was a fun day for Josiah Pearson.
He was on Sycamore Elementary School’s televised morning announcements, he got to throw around a football with his classmates, and he rode to school in a limousine with Atlanta Falcons running back Warrick Dunn.
Josiah, 10, won the “Take a Player to School” sweepstakes, a program that allows students to bring a NFL player to school. Read ON

Eighth-grade science students in Atlanta Public Schools ranked last on a national test compared to students in 10 major cities, according to scores released Wednesday.

The Atlanta students scored an average of 117 on the U.S. Department of Education’s National Assessment of Educational Progress, compared to the national average of 147 and the cities’ average of 130. Read On

By 2030, traffic in Atlanta is expected to be worse than in Los Angeles today—despite $53 billion in transportation spending between now and then.

But commuting times will actually improve over the period if the region instead adds toll lanes across the entire Atlanta highway system—an undertaking that could cost less than half as much and be largely funded by the private sector, according to a new report.  Read ON