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VIA: 11Alive.com The senior pastor of Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church took an HIV/AIDS test during the Sunday morning service to encourage church members to do the same. “We don’t like to talk about these things in church,” Rev. Raphael Warnock told the congregation. “We’ve got to fight the unholy trinity of silence, shame and stigma.” Rev. Warnock said […]
VIA: AJC.com Lima, a 12-year-old circus zebra that ran through downtown Atlanta last month, has been euthanized, according to a statement on Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey’s Web site. “It was very much a quality of life issue,” circus spokeswoman Crystal Drake told the AJC Thursday evening. “They could measure the quality of life […]
VIA: AccessAtlanta Attorney Leron Rogers of the Hewitt & Rogers law firm has filed a lawsuit against Larry Platt, whose song “Pants on the Ground” made him an overnight celebrity after he performed it as an “American Idol” audition. Rogers says the suit was filed on behalf of his client, American King Music, regarding a […]
VIA: AJC.com Superior Court Judge Ural Glanville has ordered King Inc. to revise the bylaws of the corporation that controls the estate of Martin Luther King Jr. in a way that will likely ensure that its president, Dexter King, no longer will control the corporation. The order issued Tuesday resulted from the final settlement of […]
According to the AJC, about a quarter of DeKalb County’s residents went uncounted in the last census, causing the county to lose about $41 million in federal funding, County Commissioner Connie Stokes announced Wednesday. “That’s not good enough because that means dollars are left on the table,” DeKalb CEO Burrell Ellis said Wednesday. That money […]
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VIA: AJC.com Evelyn Lowery had to chuckle when she fielded yet another phone call from someone wondering why her 88-year-old husband, who just got out of the hospital two weeks ago for a blood clot, didn’t show up to speak at a GABEO event 78 miles away in Athens. “He just got out of the […]
UPDATED WEDNESDAY, MAR 3 AT 7:40 AM SCHOOL Banks Co Schools: Closed Today Cherokee County Schools: Delayed 2 Hours Wednesday Cherokee/North Carolina: Delayed 2 Hours Cobb County Schools: Delayed 2 Hours Dawson County Schools: Closed Today Fannin County Schools: Delayed 2 Hours Forsyth County Schools: Closed Today Franklin County Schools: Delayed 2 Hours Fulton County […]
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VIA: AJC.com If you’ve ever found yourself looking at a street sign and wondered the story behind the name, the AJC.com has compiled a list to shed some light on this part of Atlanta’s history. Atlanta has a multitude of streets named after people, places and things that are often immediately identifiable: Ralph McGill Boulevard, […]
VIA: AJC.com Bobsledder Elana Meyers of Douglasville heard a scream as she and driver Erin Pac crossed the finish line. “I didn’t know what was going on,” Meyers, 25, told the Washington Post. “I thought something was wrong at first. It was incredible. And then I figured out she was screaming — and it was […]
The AJC.com is reporting that investigators seized three computer hard drives and other items from DeKalb schools Superintendent Crawford Lewis’ home Thursday as part of a criminal investigation into multimillion-dollar school construction projects. Investigators from the district attorney’s office have been searching Lewis’ Stone Mountain home and three school offices since 7:30 a.m. Around 12:30 […]