ATLANTA -- The federal appeals court in Atlanta has named three judges who will consider the constitutional challenge to the federal health care overhaul.Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Joel Dubina of Alabama will sit on the panel with U...
Continue readingDOUGLAS COUNTY, Ga. -- Dozens of Douglas County High School students walked out of class Wednesday afternoon to protest Georgia's new immigration law."We are the voice of the future!" shouted one student who joined the crowd just after 2 p.m.Students s...
Continue readingMany websites require users to verify their age before they can use the site or to register. In order to have a Facebook account, for example, users must be thirteen years of age or older. However, as the parents of many Facebook-using children can attest, it is no real challenge for underage people to sign up for Facebook or other websites. Just change the year you were born by a few years and you're in! How, then, can websites verify the age of their users? Via Futurelawyer I see that one website has found a creative way to do so...
Continue readingDEKALB COUNTY, Ga. -- A Channel 2 investigation has found that DeKalb County is spending more than $2,000 a month to feed breakfast and lunch to county commissioners and their staff.Channel 2's Richard Belcher crunched the numbers and found that the am...
Continue readingDEKALB COUNTY, Ga. -- Property values in DeKalb County are falling even faster than previously believed.New statistics delivered to county commissioners show the tax digest fell by a whopping 13.4 percent, almost 2 percent higher than originally estima...
Continue readingTo the ever-growing list of individuals tripped up by their blogs (Belly Dancing Blogs Doom Ex-Wife's Bid for Maintenance), tweets (U.S. Secret Service Becomes Latest Victim of a 'Wrong Pipe' Tweet) and other electronic communications, we can now add bank robbery suspects, in not one, but two, cases. In the first such instance, two bank tellers and their acquaintances were indicted this month in connection with a Texas bank robbery that netted about $62,000. Susan Carroll, writing in the Houston Chronicle, reports that "The heist had all the hallmarks of a classic bank robbery - masked suspects who appeared to...
Continue readingNEW ORLEANS - A man who claims that he was injured on the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico just days before it exploded filed a complaint against the owner of the rig in a Louisiana federal court on April 13 (Elmo Spruel v...
Continue readingHARTFORD, Conn. - The Connecticut Supreme Court on April 26 affirmed a directed verdict for the defendants in a workplace accident action, agreeing that an electrician apprentice's personal injury claims against his employer were barred by the exclusi...
Continue readingATLANTA -- Some residents of a downtown Atlanta condo complex are upset that a convicted child molester is living in their building, right above a childrens museum. According to Georgia law, it is legal.Channel 2s Richard Elliot looked through cour...
Continue readingALPHARETTA, Ga. -- Channel 2 Action News has learned that police in Dalton, Ga., are investigating a UPS store owned by the same man accused of stealing gift cards meant for tornado victims from a customer at his store in Johns Creek.Alpharetta police ...
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