Fulton County Tax Commissioner Arthur Ferdinand says his system of selling property tax liens to collections firms doesn't unfairly target the Southside’s poor, but he refuses to hand over the records to prove it....
Continue readingMore than 600 parents and community members spilled into the auditorium aisles of Jackson High School Monday to learn about a massive redistricting planned for Atlanta Public Schools....
Continue readingA veteran City of Atlanta engineer died Thursday from injuries following a three-vehicle wreck. Gholamreza Bavani, 64, was driving a city vehicle on Marietta Street at Andrew Young International Boulevard when he hit from behind Wednesday morning, acc...
Continue readingFormal tributes have begun for Atlanta Police Senior Officer Gail Thomas, the second female Atlanta officer killed in the line of duty....
Continue readingAbout a dozen schools will close and new schools will be built in crowded north Atlanta under two new proposals to redraw Atlanta Public Schools boundaries....
Continue readingAn Atlanta man who shot a University of West Georgia student in the chest while the victim shoppedat a Texaco gas station on Northside Drive last year has been sentenced to life without parole plus 35 years....
Continue readingAtlanta Mayor Kasim Reed raised nearly $280,000 for his reelection campaign in the last half of 2011, according to disclosure reports filed this month with state ethics officials....
Continue readingAtlanta officials reversed themselves Tuesday and put the brakes on awarding a currency exchange contract at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport....
Continue readingA federal audit of MARTA raised safety concerns that included the death of a transit patron, faulty indicator lights that tell controllers whether the “third rail” is hot, and a “near miss” between a train and a work vehicle in a rail yard....
Continue readingShe was the kind of police officer others wanted to be. Along with the uniform, Senior Officer Gail Thomas wore a smile that offered a glimpse of her kind spirit....
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