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Candidates for 4th Congressional District seat face off in Atlanta Press Club debate

July 23, 2012 Express Telegraph

Candidates vying for the Republican and Democratic nominations for the 4th Congressional District will have the opportunity to face off Sunday during the Atlanta Press Club’s Loudermilk-Young Debate Series.

Southern Museum to unveil rare Civil War regimental flag

July 22, 2012 The Travel Trolley

The Southern Museum of Civil War & Locomotive History on Monday will unveil and place on permanent display a rare regimental flag issued to the 65th Georgia Infantry during the Civil War.

Republicans vying for 10th Congressional district seat face off in Atlanta Press Club debate

July 16, 2012 Express Telegraph

Candidates vying for the Republican nomination for the 10th Congressional District will face off Sunday during the Atlanta Press Club’s Loudermilk-Young Debate Series.

Republicans vying for 12th Congressional district seat dace off in Atlanta Press Club debate

July 16, 2012 Express Telegraph

Candidates vying for the Republican nomination for the 12th Congressional District will face off Sunday during the Atlanta Press Club’s Loudermilk-Young Debate Series.

Georgia paroles board weighing clemency for man facing Wednesday execution

July 15, 2012 Express Telegraph

ATLANTA — The State Board of Pardons and Paroles is weighing clemency for a condemned inmate whose attorneys are now claiming he is mentally retarded. Warren Lee Hill Jr. is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 7 p.m. on Wednesday. Hill had a clemency hearing before the Georgia Department of Paroles and pardons on Friday; the board did not rule. Hill was sentenced to death for the 1991 slaying of a fellow inmate in

Ga. Parole Board weighing clemency for Warren Hill

July 13, 2012 Express Telegraph

ATLANTA — The State Board of Pardons and Paroles is weighing clemency for condemned inmate Warren Lee Hill. Hill is scheduled to die by lethal injection on July 18, 2012, at 7:00 p.m., at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Ga. In 1991, a jury convicted Warren Lee Hill of murder and sentenced him to death. Hill was serving a life sentence for the 1986 murder of his girlfriend, when he killed Joseph

Georgia Supreme Court: Jury may apportion damages among parties at fault

July 9, 2012 The Travel Trolley

Once a jury decides a hotel was negligent for failing to keep a guest safe from a criminal attack, it may apportion damages among all the parties at fault, including the hotel owner and the criminals, the Supreme Court of Georgia ruled today.

Former correctional officer pleads guilty to conspiring to assault, injure inmates

July 5, 2012 Express Telegraph

A former member of the Correctional Emergency Response Team (CERT) at Macon State Prison in Oglethorpe, Ga., pleaded guilty to conspiring with other correctional officers to violate the civil rights of inmates in 2010, the Justice Department announced. In addition to his guilty plea, Willie Redden, 24, of Albany, Ga., admitted he and other correctional officers assaulted and injured inmates in separate incidents at Macon State Prison in 2010. Redden indicated that correctional officers beat

Aeromexico restarts Atlanta-Mexico City scheduled passenger service

July 4, 2012 The Travel Trolley

Aeromexico restarted scheduled passenger service between Atlanta and Mexico City.

AP: JetBlue pilot found not guilty by reason of insanity

July 3, 2012 The Travel Trolley

A federal judge in Amarillo, Texas, on Tuesday found a JetBlue Airways pilot who left the cockpit mid-flight after telling his colleagues “things just don’t matter” not guilty by reason of insanity, The Associated Press reported.