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DAs feel left out of salary raise talk
The afternoon of March 10, a third-floor conference room at the state Capitol was packed. Six attorneys-lawmakers, judges, a lobbyist and State Bar of Georgia President Gerald M. Edenfield-took turns urging a special legislative committee to give judges a raise.But when the committee turned to a proposal to increase pay for prosecutors, the room emptied, leaving Henry County District Attorney Tommy K.SEC probe isn't enforcement-it's a charade
Here's another discouraging lesson for anyone hoping the people who caused the financial crisis will be brought to justice someday. Just because the Securities and Exchange Commission has accused a too-big-to-fail company of committing an outrageous fraud, that doesn't mean the agency will hold anyone accountable for it.Newspaper industry losing cachet and cash flow
IT'S BEEN MORE THAN 10 years since Jim Clark, founder of Netscape and human detonator of the Internet boom, wandered around Manhattan trying to persuade established publishers that their newspaper businesses were doomed. Newspapers depended for their survival on classified ads, Clark argued, and classified ads would inevitably migrate from newspapers onto the Internet.Lawyer takes GC work to the links for a cause
LA megachurch hopes to win Super Bowl ad contest
LOS ANGELES AP - Pastors have long competed with the NFL on Sundays, but this season a hipster megachurch is turning the tables with a 30-second ad that could muscle its way into that all holiest of sporting events: the Super Bowl.Mosaic, a 3,000-member megachurch, is one of six finalists in the Doritos' "Crash the Super Bowl" challenge with a lighthearted spoof that plays off the resurrection of Jesus Christ.View more book results for the query "*"
Man exonerated in rape after nearly 22 years in prison
ATLANTA AP - After proclaiming his innocence from prison for nearly 22 years, a man who has been cleared of a rape conviction by DNA evidence walked out of the Fulton County Jail as a free man Tuesday night.Willie O. "Pete" Williams has spent nearly half his life in a Georgia prison. He was convicted of aggravated sodomy, kidnapping and rape when the victim identified him as the perpetrator in the April 1985 incident.Court Reverses Summary Judgment In School Bus Accident
The Georgia Court of Appeals reversed the grant of summary judgment to the Pierce County School District in Katina Nixon's negligence action, on her own behalf and as the “next friend” of her daughter, after Nixon suffered injuries when a school bus struck her vehicle from behind while she was nine-months pregnant, holding that the trial court erred in finding that Nixon failed to show a genuine issue of material fact as to the cause of her child's injuries.Toy makers turn to the Web to make their toys come alive
AS KIDS keep getting plugged in to the Internet, toy-makers are following them online.At the annual American International Toy Fair this week, toy-makers showed playthings like Power Rangers helmets that store secret missions found online, plenty of online games and even devices that take kids to secure Web sites where they can play without wandering into the darker corners of the Internet.Letter: Mock trial ranking system fundamentally flawed
Authorities: Ala. shooter quit job last week
SAMSON, Ala. AP - A gunman who killed 10 people and himself in the worst mass shooting in Alabama history had trained as a police officer and quit a job at a nearby sausage plant days before the deadly spree, authorities said Wednesday.But as details of 28-year-old Michael McLendon's background began to emerge the day after the bloodshed, authorities still didn't know what set him off.Trending Stories
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