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China's influence grows in global auto market
Nissan's Teana sedan has a full-size back seat, conservative looks and a reasonable price-just the thing for a Chinese entrepreneur with a family.That Chinese buyer is why the car exists. Nissan says the Teana, though also sold in Japan and other countries, was created with China in mind-one of a growing number of models designed by global automakers for the world's biggest car market.
DeKalb schools' legal bill to double in 2013, to $10.5 million
Spending on legal matters for the DeKalb County School District is expected to more than double in the current fiscal year, as the school board has approved a $10.5 million legal budget compared with payouts of $4.7 million to law firms last year.Critics Question Gonzales' Willingness to Stand Up to White House
Vanessa [email protected] drowned Clinton. Iran-Contra clipped Reagan. And Watergate slammed Nixon. In two decades, presidential second terms haven't escaped a major scandal. Last week, the newly re-elected President Bush picked his new attorney general, the man who would be entrusted to investigate any second-term administration misdeeds.GOP recruiters tilting toward center in 2010 races
WASHINGTON AP - Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh argue the Republican Party needs less moderation and more conservative backbone to win back voters who have been abandoning it in droves.Leaders of the party's 2010 election efforts don't think ideological purity is the answer.In the latest example, key Republican senators jumped this week behind the Senate candidacy of centrist GOP Gov.Report Slams Traffic Court for Financial Abuse, Waste
Steven H. [email protected] yearlong investigation of the City Court of Atlanta alleges that the court consistently violated the city's accounting rules and mismanaged or misappropriated funds under its control. The investigation, begun in November 2003 by Atlanta's law department at the request of Mayor Shirley C.In The Trenches: Kilpatrick beefs up Charlotte office
KILPATRICK STOCKTON is pouring reinforcements into the heated Charlotte legal market, where local competitor King Spalding just opened an office last week.The firm has added seven lawyers to its 11-lawyer Charlotte, N.C., office and will bring on three first-years in September, said its co-managing partner, William E.As President Bush presses lawmakers, many immigrants try to revive stalled reform bill
SAN FRANCISCO AP - As President Bush pressed lawmakers Tuesday to get immigration reform back on track, immigrants across the country were marching, praying, writing lawmakers and hitting the road for Washington in a desperate push to revive the stalled measure.Before the bill collapsed in the Senate last week, most immigrants agreed it was flawed.Probe: Fed employees may have bought fake degrees
WASHINGTON AP - Immigration officials are looking through a list of more than 9,000 names to see how many federal employees may have bought a phony high school or college degree from a Spokane, Wash.-based diploma mill.The Spokesman-Review newspaper obtained the list and published the names on its Web site Monday. The Justice Department has refused to release the list, which grew out of a lengthy investigation by the U.Fulton Marks First Takeover of Crack House From Owner
Trisha [email protected] Georgia Court of Appeals, in dismissing an appeal, has upheld the seizure of a southwest Atlanta crack house.This is the first seizure by Atlanta police and Fulton prosecutors under the Fulton district attorney's Neighborhood Fresh Start program, which targets properties where drug activity occurs.Trending Stories
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