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 ...
Continue readingATLANTA -- 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...
Continue readingDEKALB 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...
Continue readingAs 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...
Continue readingATLANTA -- 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...
Continue reading"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...
Continue readingCENTRAL 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...
Continue readingBRIGHTON, 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...
Continue readingELBERTON, Ga. -- The parents of a developmentally disabled man said they intend to sue the city of Elberton for a cruel prank that they said was committed on their son while he was on the job last year.They contacted Channel 2 Action News this week out...
Continue readingBarring a stunning grant of certiorari by the U.S. Supreme Court, or perhaps a sequel to "The Social Network," we may have finally seen the last of Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. On Tuesday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to grant the Winklevoss twins a rehearing, Hollywood, Esq. reports. Last month, a panel of judges on the 9th Circuit held that the Winkelvi were stuck with the cash and stock settlement (valued at over $65 million) they had negotiated back in 2008 to resolve their now-famous lawsuit against Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. The Winkelvi claimed that Zuckerberg stole...
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