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Medicaid contractor employee indicted for computer theft

December 17, 2011 Express Telegraph

Romona Ferrell-Davis was indicted by a DeKalb County Grand Jury on December 8, 2011 on four counts of computer theft, one count of Computer Invasion of Privacy and one count of Identity Fraud. Ferrell-Davis was employed at Hewlett-Packard (HP), fiscal intermediary for the Georgia Department of Community Health, the Georgia Medicaid agency, from Nov. 10, 2010 to Oct. 11, 2011. The indictment charges that on October 7, 2011, and again on October 11, 2011, Ferrell-Davis

‘Opportuniy Zone’ in Smyrna leads to tax breaks

December 15, 2011 Express Telegraph

Businesses located within a so-called Opportuniy Zone in the northern portion of this Metro Atlanta city that created at least two new jobs this year are eligible for a $3,500 tax credit per job, officials said.

Ga. parks picked for ‘Reader’s Choice’ awards

December 15, 2011 Express Telegraph

Readers of Georgia Magazine have bestowed Reader’s Choice Awards to a trio of Georgia state parks.

Broun: I’ll go through TSA’s books

December 9, 2011 Express Telegraph

ATLANTA — A Georgia Congressman this week said he accepted an offer from the administrator of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to “sit down and go through TSA’s books.” U.S. Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga., has been a harsh critic of the federal agency, saying last month the “agency as a whole has been a colossal disappointment.” In response to critics, Pistole told Bloomberg News: “Those who say that we’re inefficient or bloated — I’d be glad to

Opinion: Ethics board members can only serve one four-year term

November 29, 2011 Express Telegraph

ATLANTA — A member of the Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission “may serve no more than one complete four year term of office,” the state attorney general’s office state said in a recent opinion. However, Deputy Attorney General Dennis R. Dunn said, a member of the board — formerly known as the State Ethics Commission — “may for a period of less than a complete term hold over in office until his successor

Inmates use cell phones ‘to commit additional crimes’

November 24, 2011 Express Telegraph

ATLANTA — The state Department of Corrections is investigating a Monday incident at Telfair State Prison in Helena in which Inmates used smuggled cell phones to start a fight. Three inmates were sent to the hospital, and two remain in stable condition. A corrections officer was also hurt. Two dorms at the prison were placed on lock down. But, state officials say smuggled cell phones cause problems. Inmates, authorities say, can use the phones to

UPDATE: Court upholds death penalty for man claiming mental retardation

November 23, 2011 Express Telegraph

ATLANTA — A federal appeals court this week upheld the death penalty for a man who now claims he is mentally retarded. Warren Lee Hill Jr. did not claim mental retardation during his 1991 trial. However, in 1996, Lee added to a “habeas petition to allege mental retardation for the first time, and he later claimed that Georgia’s reasonable doubt standard of proof (state law) violated the Eighth Amendment,” according to an opinion from the 11th

Court upholds death penalty for man claiming mental retardation

November 23, 2011 Express Telegraph

Longtime Bulldogs announcer Munson dies

November 21, 2011 Express Telegraph

Larry Munson, the legendary voice of the Georgia Bulldogs for more than four decades, died Sunday from complications from pneumonia, the university announced. He was 89.

Price: Kagan must not decide health care law

November 17, 2011 Express Telegraph

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan must recuse herself from deciding the Constitutionality of the health care law Congress passed last year, a Georgia Congressman said. “The President’s health care law – now headed to the Supreme Court – is a threat to America’s health care system and the principles of affordability, accessibility, quality, responsiveness, innovation, and choices,” U.S Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., said in a statement. “It is important that the Court has agreed to