Stories for April 2010
Stories for Friday, April 30
Hawks Beat Bucks 83-69, Force Game 7
Jamal Crawford broke out of a slump with 24 points, Joe Johnson added 22 points and the Atlanta Hawks beat the Milwaukee Bucks 83-69 on Friday night to force a seventh game in the first-round series.Game 7 is Sunday in Atlanta.Carlos Delfino scored 20 for the Bucks, who came into ...
Family Of DeKalb County Fire Victim Files Lawsuit
The family of a Dunwoody woman who died after a failed 911 response, is now suing DeKalb county. Ann Bartlett died in January after calling 911 to report her home was on fire. According to investigators, she gave her correct address, but firefighters said didn't see any smoke or fire ...
Ga. Indoor Ski Resort A Step Closer To Reality
Developers want to transform the top of a mountain in Bartow County into the world's largest indoor ski slope, but they said they need the governor's signature to do it.Developer Steve Winters said he's ready to build The Falls at Vineyard Mountain, a billion dollar indoor ski resort on top ...
Truck Crashes Into Home, 1 Injured
A man is in stable condition after the truck he was driving suddenly accelerated, went airborne and crashed into a house. Luckily no one was inside the home when the impact of the truck crumbled the brick wall portion of the home and entered a bedroom.The incident happened at the ...
Starbucks Employee Helps Foil Armed Robber
Employees and customers went scrambling when an armed man walked into a Starbucks coffee shop on Moreland Avenue Thursday night."I was just going to make sure everybody got out of there," said employee Katy Ashton.Ashton said she was getting ready to close with two customers inside Thursday night when a ...
ATLANTA WEATHER:Chances For Showers, T-Storms
Severe Weather Team 2 Meteorologist David Chandley has been tracking rain moving across the country. He said parts of Georgia could see rain and thunderstorms."Our wind flow this weekend will be right off the Gulf of Mexico, so moisture and temperature will be on the increase," Chandley said.There will be ...
Greater Access Leads To Dangerous Explosives
"The chances that there are improvised explosives in your neighborhood, made by somebody that you know, are much more likely now because of the availability of information," said Steve Lazarus of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.In January 2009, Chad Wells showed up at a Georgia hospital missing one finger and ...
High Q Test Answers
1. Hussein2. Minneapolis and Saint Paul3. 19954. the frontier5. Ray Bradbury6. avocado7. they’re Lost (on the ABC television series)8. unnamed chemical elements (#113, 114, and 115)9. in the Hundred Acre Wood10. a frothy volcanic rock called pumice, filled with gas bubbles11. the fifteenth century (1412-1431)12. The Phantom of the Opera13. ...
Have You Thought About Buying Franchise?
Have you ever thought about buying a franchise? Do you worry about the odds of survival? If so, Clark Howard’s producer wants to hear form you. If you live in Metro Atlanta and are willing to go on camera, email patti@wsbtv.com Thanks!
High Q: Test Your Skills
1. What is Barack Obama’s middle name?2. What are the "twin cities" of Minnesota?3. In what year did the Atlanta Braves win their only World Series?4. What officially closed in 1890, according to the director of the U.S. Census Bureau?5. Who wrote The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451?6. What is ...
Silicone Injection To Buttock Killed Ga. Woman
A potentially dangerous cosmetic practice has left some victims who had thought they would get fuller lips and shapelier bodies horribly and permanently deformed. In a metro Atlanta case, the procedure killed a woman.A 29-year-old woman and her husband said they went to a Stone Mountain motel in May of ...
Police: Doctor Killing Suspect Said He Was Sorry
An unemployed Georgia doctor charged with fatally shooting a Yale University physician acknowledged he was at the crime scene at the time of the shooting and said he was sorry for what happened, police said Friday. Branford police released a report by an officer who interviewed 44-year-old Lishan Wang, who ...
Drugs, Weapons Found During I-85 Traffic Stop
Two men were arrested after a traffic stop on Interstate 85 led officials to drugs and weapons, Gwinnett County police said.Police said an officer stopped a Cadillac STS that was being “operated erratically” early Friday morning on I-85 near Hamilton Mill Road.The Gwinnett County police officer said he believed the ...
Delays Expected On Ga. 400 Tonight
Road crews said they will be pace traffic intermittently Friday on GA 400 southbound at Hammond Drive between the hours of 9 p.m. and midnight.Drivers should expect delays during the hours of construction.
2 Shot In Drive-By Near Atlanta School
Atlanta police say two people were wounded in an early morning drive-by shooting near a northwest Atlanta high school. Dispatchers say the shooting happened around 3:30 a.m. Friday in front of Douglass High School. Police say a 28-year-old man was shot in the shoulder, and a second person, whose age ...
Officer Shot During Scuffle With Woman
A Cobb County police officer was shot when he arrived to back up another officer who was responding to a suspicious person call on Veterans Memorial Highway in Austell.Investigators said when the second officer arrived at the scene Thursday night, he found the first officer in a scuffle with a ...
Driver Crashes After 'Wild' Police Chase
A high-speed chase ended Friday morning when the driver crashed into a huge Dumpster and had to be taken to Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta police said.The chase ended in the 1500 block of Bouldercrest Road in southeast Atlanta.Investigators said the incident started as a routine traffic stop near Moreland Avenue ...
Lawmakers Put Final Touch On Long Session
Exhausted Georgia lawmakers capped the longest-running legislative session in years Thursday by expanding gun rights and banning drivers from texting behind the wheel after clearing long-sought overhauls of Georgia's transportation, ethics and water conservation rules earlier in the year. The House and Senate also put the finishing touches on the ...
'Andy Griffith Show' Actress Robbed in 'Mayberry'
MOUNT AIRY, N.C. (AP) The actress who played Thelma Lou on ``The Andy Griffith Show'' was robbed in the town that inspired the show's idyllic Mayberry setting, after moving to the area to avoid big city crime. Betty Lou Lynn had her wallet stolen at a shopping center in Mount ...
Stories for Thursday, April 29
Hartsfield-Jackson Faces Accusations Of Undocumented Workers
The group Jobs for Georgians said it visited the $1.6 billion Maynard H. Jackson Jr. International Terminal project after receiving complaints about undocumented workers and cash payments to laborers. Federal and state laws mandate that contractors working on public projects run each worker through a program called "E-Verify", which documents ...
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