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SEC, Chick-fil-A to
generate $55M for ATL
The end of the college football season may bring a windfall to Atlanta's hospitality sector, according to the Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau.
Famous Dave's pulls
out of Atlanta
Famous Dave's of America Inc. shuttered its three restaurants in Atlanta for poor performance.
Chambliss Fights Subpeona In
Imperial Sugar Explosion Lawsuit
Sen. Saxby Chambliss is fighting a subpoena by a Savannah attorney who's suing Imperial Sugar on behalf of victims of the deadly February explosion at its Georgia refinery.
Mom Blames Driver
In Jaywalking Death
Police said a 4-year-old girl was struck and killed while trying to cross busy South Cobb Drive in Smyrna before dawn Monday.
Nichols' Girlfriend Reads
Tell-All Letters In Court
Brian Nichols' jailhouse girlfriend took the stand to tell all in the trial on Monday, and the judge exploded at a request from Nichols' attorneys -- just another busy day in the penalty phase of this trial where it seems anything can happen.
U.S. recession will last
14 months: Fed survey
 Private-sector economists believe the U.S. economy fell into recession last spring and now expect a sharp contraction in the fourth quarter of this year after slashing their forecasts for gross domestic product, a Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia survey said on Monday.
Burlington, Vt., is
healthiest city, CDC says
 Bicycling, hiking, skiing and other exercises are common in Burlington. Neighborhood groups commonly focus on improving parks, working in community gardens and repairing and improving sidewalks.
50 percent more US children
went hungry in 2007
Some 691,000 children went hungry in America sometime in 2007, while close to one in eight Americans struggled to feed themselves adequately even before this year's sharp economic downtown, the Agriculture Department reported Monday.
Big Three beg for
aid as bailout bill stalls
Detroit's Big Three auto makers are begging Congress for a $25 billion government rescue, while the legislation clings to life support on Capitol Hill and top lawmakers and the White House suffer from bailout fatigue.
Court to decide anti-Hillary Clinton
movie case
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to rule on a new challenge to the federal campaign finance law by a conservative group that wants to broadcast and promote a movie critical of Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton.
Yahoo's Yang decides he's
no longer the right CEO
Yahoo Inc. founder Jerry Yang has never concealed how much he cares about his Internet company. His emotional attachment is one of the reasons he balked at a $47.5 billion takeover offer from Microsoft.
Government delays decision
on killing wild horses
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management will round up fewer wild horses and try to shuffle funds within the agency to hold off for now on killing large numbers of the animals in an effort to control herds and spiraling costs, an official said Monday.
Online to TV 'Sanctuary'
a true pioneer
A milestone was reached last week in the crossover from Internet to TV when Sci Fi Channel gave an early second-season pickup to "Sanctuary," making it the first TV show based on an online series to accomplish the feat.
Falling boulders endanger
lives at Yosemite
 YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. -- For a decade, the National Park Service has known that the 3,000-foot granite cliff hanging over a tourist village at Yosemite is susceptible to colossal rockslides like one last month that crushed cabins and sent schoolchildren running for their lives.
Informant: 5 spoke little
about attacking Fort Dix
Five men accused of plotting to attack soldiers at Fort Dix hardly mentioned the military installation in the months before their arrest, a key government informant testified Monday.
Klan leader, former member
ordered to pay $2.5M in attack
More than two years after he was surrounded by skinheads, called racial slurs and kicked with steel-toed boots, Jordan Gruver says he still lives in fear.
Obama, McCain vow to work
on D.C.'s 'bad habits'
President-elect Barack Obama and former Republican rival John McCain pledged Monday to work together on ways to change Washington's "bad habits," though aides to both men said it was unlikely McCain would serve in an Obama Cabinet.
Long-Distance Interview
From Endeavour
Interviewing astronauts in space is no longer, well, rocket science. NASA sets it all up for reporters with only a few, simple instructions, and a couple of e-mails that explain the technical information about the video and audio connections between Mission Control in Houston, and our TV station in Atlanta.
County Proposes Immigrant
Renter Measure
One Metro county is trying again to crack down on illegal immigrants living and working in the area.
Free Tickets For Jim Martin
Rally Available
Former President Bill Clinton is coming to Atlanta Wednesday to campaign for Democratic US Senate candidate Jim Martin in his runoff bid against incumbent Sen. Saxby Chambliss.
'Tuna' Song Could Help
Atlanta Food Bank
In an empty classroom, Matt Moore and Mark Adler strum their instruments and swoon out a catchy tune. Their inspiration: tuna fish. "We bought packages and packages of it," Mark said with a laugh.
Cap On Reassessments
Filed In State House
Annual residential property assessment increases in Georgia would be capped at 3 percent or the rate of inflation, whichever is less, under legislation pre-filed in the Georgia House of Representatives Monday.
Title Insurer Wins Round
In Mortgage Fraud
The federal appeals court in Atlanta has given a title insurance company a chance to recover some of the $742,000 it lost in a Georgia mortgage fraud scheme.
Repo Men Reaping Benefits
In Tough Economy
Repo men in metro Atlanta and around the country are working harder than ever before.
Nationwide, vehicle repossessions are up 10 percent this year and are projected to go up 10 percent next year.
Viewer Stories: Living
Paycheck To Paycheck
The economy has caused my employer to cut me to a 3/4 worker, cutting my wages but still putting me above the line to qualify for underemployment.
Beer Truck Driver Shot, Killed
At SE Atlanta Convenience Store
A beer deliveryman was shot and killed Monday during a robbery attempt at a southeast Atlanta convenience store.
Body Found In Abandoned
Barrow County Home
Barrow County authorities and Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents spent Monday investigating an apparent homicide after a body was found in an abandoned house.
Economy pounds
trucking biz
Cuts in manufacturing and the worsening economy have replaced soaring fuel costs as the biggest threats to transport companies.
Hospitals weaken from
economy's grave blood loss
As unemployment ticks upward, some hospitals are feeling it on their bottom lines. While almost all are tightening their fiscal belt a notch or two, some are taking more extreme measures.
Buckhead park renamed
for business leader
A longtime Atlanta business leader is being honored with a park named for him.
The Atlanta City Council voted unanimously Monday to change the name of the Buckhead Triangle Park to Charlie Loudermilk Park in honor of the former board chairman and CEO of Aaron Rents Inc. .
Holiday shoppers just
getting started
Waiting is the name of the game this holiday shopping season, as a national survey reveals that 72 percent of consumers have completed less than 10 percent of their shopping, compared with 2.2 percent of shoppers who say they have finished.
Survey: Sinking economy clouds
teenagers' views of entrepreneurship
Fewer teengers are interested in entrepreneurship, according to a new poll.
The seventh annual "Teens and Entrepreneurship" poll by Junior Achievement polled teens age 13 to 18 in February and March and found that 60 percent were interested in entrepreneurship in 2008. That's from 67 percent in 2007.
Economist survey: Recession is
on, slow growth ahead
Nearly all economists surveyed recently by a national trade organization say the U.S. economy is in a recession and their expectations for economic growth next year are meager at best.
Indigo plant may treat
chronic skin disease
Indigo naturalis, a dark blue plant used in traditional Chinese medicine, appears to be effective in treating psoriasis, a study in Taiwan has found.
'Meh': Apathetic expression
enters dictionary
At least someone is excited about "meh."
The expression of indifference or boredom has gained a place in the Collins English Dictionary after generating a surprising amount of enthusiasm among lexicographers.
'Borat' star crashes NBC
drama 'Medium'
Even a make-believe psychic couldn't spot the scam when an actor disrupted a scene for "Medium" involving Patricia Arquette, who stars as psychic Allison DuBois in the NBC drama.
Rioters attack government
office in northwest China
A crowd of about 1,000 people attacked a government office in northwest China, smashing cars and beating police and officials in a riot sparked by a property dispute, the local government said on Tuesday.
Australia temporarily
shuts down navy
Australia's navy gets a big Christmas gift this year: two months paid vacation for most sailors that will ease the effects of a recruiting slump but make the service Down Under look something like a part-time operation.
50 percent more US children
went hungry in 2007
Some 691,000 children went hungry in America sometime in 2007, while close to one in eight Americans struggled to feed themselves adequately even before this year's sharp economic downtown, the Agriculture Department reported Monday.
Big Three beg for aid
as bailout bill stalls
Detroit's Big Three auto makers are begging Congress for a $25 billion government rescue, while the legislation clings to life support on Capitol Hill and top lawmakers and the White House suffer from bailout fatigue.
Burlington, Vt., is
healthiest city, CDC says
What's the healthiest city in America? It appears to be Burlington, Vt.
Vermont's largest city is tops among U.S. metropolitan areas by having the largest proportion of people — 92 percent — who say they are in good or great health.
Physicist admits sending US
space know-how to China
A Chinese-born physicist Monday pleaded guilty before a US court to illegally exporting American military space know-how to China, US officials said.
Wis. woman pleads no
contest in toilet corpse case
A woman accused of helping her religious leader hide a decaying corpse on her toilet so they could continue collecting her Social Security was convicted of a misdemeanor in a deal for her to testify against the leader, a prosecutor said Monday.
Will Detroit's cash crisis
kill the electric car?
Call it an economic and environmental murder mystery in the making: Will a cash-strapped Detroit kill the electric car -- again?
Top salesmen for financial
bailout face grilling
The two top salesmen for a $700 billion financial bailout are in for a grilling by Capitol Hill lawmakers just one week after the administration officially ditched the original strategy behind the rescue.
Fans flock to 'Twilight'
premiere in Los Angeles
Hundreds of shrieking fans — mostly teenage girls — lined the streets outside the Mann Village and Bruin Theatres on Monday for a chance to peek at the stars attending the Los Angeles premiere of "Twilight."
Companies likely to cut
back on employee gifts
Workers shouldn't count on lavish gift baskets or monogrammed cufflinks from their employers this holiday season.
Copy of famed Lincoln
letter turns up in Dallas
A Texas museum hopes a document found in its archives turns out to be an authentic government copy of Abraham Lincoln's eloquent letter consoling a mother thought to have lost five sons in the Civil War.
Obama advisers: No charges
likely vs interrogators
Barack Obama's incoming administration is unlikely to bring criminal charges against government officials who authorized or engaged in harsh interrogations of suspected terrorists during the George W. Bush presidency.
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