Atlanta’s streetcar launch, costs in fluxAtlanta Journal ConstitutionTracks along Luckie Street near Cone Street. There will be a stop at Cone Street. Photos along the route of the downtown streetcar,…
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Moov Brings Smarts to Fitness Tech – TechNewsWorld
TechNewsWorldMoov could be the first fitness gadget that adds “ability to motivate” to its list of features and functions. In addition to collecting and analyzing data, Moov offers personalized performance…
Mardi Gras deals/events – Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
Mardi Gras deals/eventsAtlanta Journal Constitution (blog)1 after 3 p.m. for Booze, Beers & Beads, The party features live New Orleans style brass music from Atlanta’s The Seed & Feed Marching…
Fewer metro Atlanta homeowners undewater on loans – Atlanta Journal Constitution
Fewer metro Atlanta homeowners undewater on loansAtlanta Journal ConstitutionThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The continuing rise in home prices in metro Atlanta is giving homeowners with underwater mortgages optimism that they’ll be…
Jury orders Da Brat to pay $6.4 million to victim in bottle attack – Atlanta Journal Constitution
Atlanta Journal ConstitutionA row at Atlanta music producer Jermaine Dupri’s Studio 72 near Tucker landed rapper Da Brat (Shawntae Harris) in prison. She was sentenced Aug. 22, 2008, to three…
Burger 21 opening more metro Atlanta locations – Atlanta Journal Constitution
Burger 21 opening more metro Atlanta locationsAtlanta Journal ConstitutionBy Christopher Seward. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Burger 21, a Tampa fast-casual restaurant chain that opened its first metro Atlanta location near the…
Atlanta superintendent search advances – Atlanta Journal Constitution
Atlanta superintendent search advancesAtlanta Journal ConstitutionThe Atlanta Superintendent Search Committee plans to continue reviewing candidates during meetings this weekend before handing a list of candidates to the school board by…
12K cameras to give Atlanta police broader window to city – Atlanta Journal Constitution
12K cameras to give Atlanta police broader window to cityAtlanta Journal ConstitutionLt. LeAnne Browning (center) with the Atlanta Police Department answers questions Wednesday during a tour of the APD video…
Atlanta weather | Warm-up coming after chilly Thursday – Atlanta Journal Constitution
Atlanta weather | Warm-up coming after chilly ThursdayAtlanta Journal ConstitutionBy Friday afternoon, temperatures will be at least 10 degrees warmer than they were Wednesday afternoon. And the weekend will be…
Several Atlanta principals to be removed from their schools – Atlanta Journal Constitution
Several Atlanta principals to be removed from their schoolsAtlanta Journal ConstitutionHundreds of students at Mays High School in west Atlanta walked out of school Tuesday to protest the removal of…
Atlanta rapper Young Thug arrested on drug, driving charges – Atlanta Journal Constitution
Atlanta Journal ConstitutionThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Atlanta rapper Young Thug was jailed on Wednesday in Atlanta for driving erratically in his car with drugs. According to the Fulton County Sheriff’s office,…
Cheap Chic Fashion: Topshop, Forever 21, Augusta Outlet – Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
Cheap Chic Fashion: Topshop, Forever 21, Augusta OutletAtlanta Journal Constitution (blog)Somewhere between Fall 2015 and Spring 2016,locals will welcome a 400,000 square foot fashion outlet mall to Augusta located at…
Mike Muscala headed to Atlanta Hawks – Peachtree Hoops
Peachtree HoopsAfter we reported that the Atlanta Hawks reached out to Obradoiro about buying out Mike Muscala and bringing the Bucknell star to Atlanta to help the ailing frontcourt, a…
Cheryl Freeman, 40, of Atlanta, lost 70 pounds – Atlanta Journal Constitution
Cheryl Freeman, 40, of Atlanta, lost 70 poundsAtlanta Journal ConstitutionPersonal life: “(I am) a mother of three teenagers, two girls and a sickle cell anemia son, that lives in southwest…
Students injured in school bus wreck in SE Atlanta – Atlanta Journal Constitution
Atlanta Journal Constitution… Humphries Drive and Browns Mill Road. “Several students complaining of back and neck injuries” were being transported to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Hughes Spalding, Atlanta police…
Facebook shelves controversial email feature – Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukFacebook has quietly shelved its controversial email feature, introduced three years ago, because “people haven’t been using it”. Founder Mark Zuckerberg launched the service in 2010, criticising traditional email for…
Update: Missing Atlanta girl, 12, found safe – Atlanta Journal Constitution
Update: Missing Atlanta girl, 12, found safeAtlanta Journal ConstitutionSernesha Burston “has been located and is OK,” Officer Kim Jones told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Burston was last seen around 11 p.m.…
Report: Google offered to match or beat Facebook’s WhatsApp deal – Atlanta Journal Constitution
Atlanta Journal ConstitutionBefore Mark Zuckerberg paid a whopping $19 billion for WhatsApp, Google made a strong offer to WhatsApp CEO, Jan Koum, according to a new report from The Information.…
National Margarita Day deals – Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
National Margarita Day dealsAtlanta Journal Constitution (blog)On The Border Mexican Grill & Cantina:[UPDATE 2/21: I have just been informed that Atlanta Area Restaurants will not be participating. Boo] OTB will…
Chris Christie to skip dinner with President Obama – Politico
PoliticoChris Christie won’t dine at the White House on his swing through Washington this weekend. The New Jersey governor is set to leave town Sunday morning, his office confirmed, before…
Chris Christie: The $18 million man – CNN (blog)
CNN (blog)Washington (CNN) – It appears the controversies New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s dealing with back in the Garden State haven’t affected his standing as one of the GOP’s most…
Heavy rain, high winds sweep across metro Atlanta; possible tornado reported … – Atlanta Journal Constitution
Heavy rain, high winds sweep across metro Atlanta; possible tornado reported …Atlanta Journal ConstitutionAll of metro Atlanta was under either a tornado or a severe thunderstorm watch during the early…
Atlanta weather | Slight risk of severe storms Friday – Atlanta Journal Constitution
Atlanta weather | Slight risk of severe storms FridayAtlanta Journal ConstitutionMetro Atlanta‘s wild February weather will continue early Friday, when there’s a slight risk of severe storms. Showers and thunderstorms…
2-year-old girl struck, killed by daycare van in Atlanta identified – Atlanta Journal Constitution
2-year-old girl struck, killed by daycare van in Atlanta identifiedAtlanta Journal ConstitutionThe Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office Wednesday identified the toddler struck and killed by a daycare van in southwest…
Day care van hit, kills 2-year-old in SW Atlanta – WSB Atlanta
WSB AtlantaThe child was taken to a hospital in extremely critical condition around 5 p.m., but died shortly after, Atlanta police told Channel 2’s Erica Byfield. The toddler was in…
‘Gravity’: What makes the BAFTA winner a British film? – Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles TimesHow could a movie with a Mexican director, two American stars and the backing of a major U.S. studio be named outstanding British film at the British Academy…
2 accused of sexually assaulting Atlanta woman – Atlanta Journal Constitution
2 accused of sexually assaulting Atlanta womanAtlanta Journal ConstitutionAnyone with information on the man’s identity is asked to contact the Crime Stoppers Atlanta tip line at 404-577-TIPS (8477), online at…
Suspected Egyptian militants raise stakes in insurgency – Reuters
ReutersCAIRO (Reuters) – The bombing of a tourist bus in Egypt by suspected Muslim militants marks a strategic shift to soft targets that could devastate an economy already reeling from…
Teen shot in southwest Atlanta – Atlanta Journal Constitution
Teen shot in southwest AtlantaAtlanta Journal ConstitutionA teenager was shot and wounded in southwest Atlanta early Monday, reportedly after confronting a man he believed was trying to steal his mother’s…
‘The Real Housewives of Atlanta’ recap: You’re Cordially e-vited – Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment WeeklyI would like to specifically honor each and every one of you with my favorite quote from last night’s episode of The Real Housewives of Atlanta: “I love me…
Craig Kimbrel agrees to $42 million contract with Braves – USA TODAY
USA TODAYKISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — The Atlanta Braves added to their extensive wave of long-term deals with their young stars on Sunday by agreeing to a $42 million, four-year contract…
Real Housewives of Atlanta Charity Fail – The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A.
The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A.Last week I called these “ladies” gutter pigs” and I was called a racist. I didn’t mention the color of the pigs, simple stated they…
Toxoplasma gondii discovered in Arctic whale – Healio
HealioA research team from the University of British Columbia discovered for the first time an infectious form of Toxoplasma gondii in western Arctic Beluga, which may have serious public health…
Flappy envy: Google, Apple block games with ‘flappy’ titles – Atlanta Journal Constitution
Atlanta Journal ConstitutionFlappy Pig. Flappy Super Hero. Flappy Plane. Call it Flappy Fever, but numerous games with “Flappy” in the title are cropping up in app stores and it looks…