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New Fulton County Tax Notices Could Cost $140K

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ATLANTA -- It may cost Fulton County as much as $140,000 to mail new property assessment notices to correct mistakes in hundreds of thousands of tax bill estimates sent out just weeks ago.The new notices will correct grossly inflated estimates that man...

21 May

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Good Samaritan Jumps From Bridge To Avoid Crash

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SMYRNA, Ga. -- A Good Samaritan is recovering in the hospital after jumping from a bridge to avoid being hit by an oncoming car while attempting to help a drunk driver who had gotten into an accident.Police said the whole chain of events happened on th...

21 May

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State Investigating Emissions Test Issue

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ATLANTA -- If your car's been built in the last 15 years a state emissions tester only needs to plug a computer into your car to perform the test.It's required in Georgia to register all cars built between 1987 and 2008.This week the state had all the ...

21 May

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Pastor Arrested In Jamaica Returns Home

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ATLANTA -- An Athens-area pastor jailed in Jamaica after airport authorities said they found a bullet in his bag returned to metro Atlanta on Friday.Steven Carter was greeted by more than 20 church members who gathered at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Int...

20 May

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8 DeKalb Schools Close For Good

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DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. -- Students and teachers walked the hallways for the last time at eight DeKalb County schools Friday.In March, the DeKalb County School Board voted to adopt the superintendents plan to close eight schools as part of a redistricting...

20 May

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U.S. Secret Service Becomes Latest Victim of a ‘Wrong Pipe’ Tweet

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As I noted last month, law firms getting more active on Twitter need to avoid three main types of "self-destructive" tweets. First on the list was the increasingly common "wrong pipe" tweet, which occurs when the person responsible for tweeting for a company or law firm accidentally tweets from the company's account rather than from his or her individual Twitter account. As discussed in last month's post, the American Red Cross and Chrysler have already learned about "wrong pipe" tweets the hard way. The latest victim of a "wrong pipe" tweet is an unlikely one: The U.S. Secret Service, which...

20 May

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Powerball Jackpot Jumps To $120M

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ATLANTA -- Powerball is ripe for winning with the jackpot for Saturdays drawing at an estimated $120 million to a single annuity winner. It only takes $1 for a chance to win big.Powerball offers two payment options: the jackpot prize paid over 29 yea...

19 May

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And the First-Ever LBW ‘Costanza Award’ Goes to … Munich Re Executives!

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"Seinfeld," Season 3, episode 12 ("The Red Dot"): Mr. Lippman: It's come to my attention that you and the cleaning woman have engaged in sexual intercourse on the desk in your office. Is that correct? George Costanza: Who said that? Mr. Lippman: She did. George Costanza: [pause] Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing is frowned upon...

19 May

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Toyota Successfully Defends Unintended Acceleration Case In New York Federal Court

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CENTRAL ISLIP, NY - A federal jury in New York on April 1 determined that Toyota was not responsible for an automobile accident involving a Scion vehicle that the plaintiff alleged accelerated out of control (Amir Sitafalwalla v. Toyota Motor Sales U...

19 May

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Colorado Family Files Salmonella Lawsuit Against Del Monte Fresh Produce

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BRIGHTON, Colo. - A Colorado couple whose 12-year-old daughter was hospitalized after contracting a Salmonella infection from eating Del Monte-brand cantaloupe purchased from a Costco store filed a complaint in state court on March 31, seeking damages...

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