Metro Atlanta jobless rate drops to 9 percent
Mar 29th
Metro Atlanta’s unemployment rate has declined to 9 percent in February, state labor officials said. The preliminary unemployment rate is down one-tenth of a percentage point from a revised 9.1 percent in January, the Georgia Department of Labor announced Thursday. More >
Atlanta Braves enduring tough spring
Mar 28th
The perception is that not much has changed with the Braves’ roster since they coughed up that 10-game lead last September. Especially since they’ve been offensively challenged in spring training games.
General manager Frank Wren saw no need to blow up the team because the collapse could be traced to injuries to right-handers Jair Jurrjens (knee) and Tommy Hanson (shoulder), and to catcher Brian McCann (oblique), and to the heavy use of the bullpen’s back-end pitchers, left-hander Jonny Venters and right-hander Craig Kimbrel.
Atlanta home prices plunged 15% in January
Mar 27th
After tumbling nearly 13 percent in 2011, metro Atlanta’s home prices were off to a historically rough start in January 2012. A new report by S&P/Case-Shiller shows prices here were plunged 14.8 percent year-over-year in January and were down 2.1 percent compared with December 2011. More >
Rally in Atlanta to Honor Trayvon Martin
Mar 26th
Activists are planning to rally at the steps of the Georgia statehouse in memory of the unarmed 17-year-old who was killed by a Florida neighborhood watch captain while returning from a convenience store.
Civil rights groups, students and public officials are planning the rally on Monday on the steps of the Georgia Capitol in memory of Trayvon Martin.
Mayor Kasim Reed leads business delegation to China
Mar 23rd
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed and a delegation of local business leaders left town Friday on a nine-day trip to China. “This trade mission – my first to China – is vital to helping Atlanta compete for global business opportunities and maintain its position as the leading international city in the Southeast,” Reed said before departing Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. More >
Atlanta equity firm buys mini-burger titan Krystal
Mar 22nd
Chattanooga-based Krystal announced Thursday that it had been purchased by Argonne Capital Group, an Atlanta private equity firm that owns hundreds of IHOP, Applebee’s and Stevi B’s Pizza locations. More >
Atlanta rapper indicted for fellow entertainer’s death
Mar 21st
A grand jury has indicted an Atlanta rapper accused of killing a fellow entertainer known as Slim Dunkin in a recording studio fight last December, prosecutors said on Wednesday. More >
Kim Zolciak to gift Atlanta with a new baby
Mar 20th
Kim Zolciak, one of the 500 or so 30-something blondes on the Real Housewives franchise, is replicating. The Real Housewives of Atlanta sweetie is four months pregnant with her second child with husband, NFL beefcake Kroy Biermann, 26, she tells Life & Style in an !Exclusive! (Talk about genetic engineering: Kim ‘n’ Kroy, defensive end for the Atlanta Falcons can’t but produce beautiful babies.)
“Kroy and I are so excited,” Kim, 33, !exclusively! confirms the news to Life & Style. “To decide we wanted to get pregnant again and have it happen so quickly was such a blessing.”
Atlanta fires first teacher in cheating scandal
Mar 14th
A panel of educators today voted to fire Parks Middle teacher Damany Lewis for cheating, making him the first Atlanta educator to be terminated as a result of the scandal.
Lewis confessed to cheating four years in a row and to using a razor blade to cut into test booklets and make copies for other teachers. Today, Lewis went before the panel and asked for a lighter punishment. He didn’t deny his confession to special investigators, but highlighted the pressure teachers were under to improve test results. “We were told failure was not an option,” he said.
Jet rolls off taxiway at Atlanta airport
Mar 13th
Cranes are moving a jet that rolled off a taxiway and was significantly damaged at the world’s busiest airport in Atlanta. Delta Air Lines spokesman Eric Torbenson says mechanics were testing the engines of the Boeing 737 when there was a problem with the braking system around 5 a.m. Tuesday.
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen says no passengers were aboard. There were two maintenance workers on the plane but no one was hurt.
