Mental health plan is big shift to privatization Fecha: 02 Dec 2008
Atlanta Journal Constitution -
Under pressure to fix its mental health system, Georgia is embarking on an uncharted course: the total privatization of state psychiatric hospitals. In an escalation of earlier plans for limited privatization, officials now want to hire for-profit companies to build and operate three new
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Senate leader: Merge historically black colleges Fecha: 02 Dec 2008
Atlanta Journal Constitution -
The chairman of a key state Senate committee wants the University System to consider merging historically black public colleges with nearby white-majority schools to save money. In making the suggestion Monday, Senate Higher Education Committee Chairman Seth Harp (R-Midland) immediately ran into
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Lawyers want Crime Stoppers info in Carson case Fecha: 02 Dec 2008
Atlanta Journal Constitution -
Lawyers for two men accused of killing University of North Carolina student body president Eve Carson want all Crime Stoppers information on the case. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Tuesday that lawyers for 22-year-old Demario Atwater and 18-year-old Laurence Lovette want all the tips the
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Judge: UGA needs to clear name of journalism dean Fecha: 02 Dec 2008
Atlanta Journal Constitution -
A federal judge is recommending that the University of Georgia clear the name of the campus' former journalism dean. U.S. Magistrate Judge C. Christopher Hagy wrote in court documents Friday that UGA should rescind sexual harassment charges against John Soloski. The judge called the university's
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Everything you need to know for Tuesday's runoff Fecha: 02 Dec 2008
Atlanta Journal Constitution -
A Georgia U.S. Senate race that has attracted national media attention and was even lampooned on Saturday Night Live comes to an end Tuesday. Voters will also select a Georgia Public Service Commissioner, a state Court of Appeals judge and county commissioners, school board members and other local
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Roads icy in N. Georgia but not metro Atlanta Fecha: 02 Dec 2008
Atlanta Journal Constitution -
Freezing temperatures combined with moisture from Monday's snow flurries to turn some North Georgia roads icy early Tuesday, but no icing was reported on metro Atlanta roadways. Just before daybreak, the state Department of Transportation's Web site listed several roads closed in Union and Dawson
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Man dies trying wheelie on motorcycle Fecha: 02 Dec 2008
Atlanta Journal Constitution -
A Warner Robins man is dead after he lost control of his motorcycle while doing a wheelie and crashed. Houston County Sheriff's Lt. M.J. Stokes said 21-year-old Joshua Bryan Baker died when he was thrown off the motorcycle into a utility pole. Stokes said witnesses told investigators that Baker was
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Family of psychiatric patient to get $1 million from state Fecha: 02 Dec 2008
Atlanta Journal Constitution -
For the second time in two years, Georgia will pay a million-dollar settlement over the death of a patient at one of its beleaguered state psychiatric hospitals. An apology, the patient's sister said, might have resolved the case for much less money. The family of Michael Ernest Webb, a 59-year-old
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