Airport Check-in: Atlanta shows off upcoming rental car center

By Roger Yu, USA TODAY
Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson offered the public its first peek of the new rental car center that opens in November, becoming the latest location to embrace a growing airport design trend.When it opens, all rental car counters in the passenger terminal will move to the new location, which will have about 8,700 parking [...]

Swine Flu Vaccine Tests Begin In Atlanta

ATLANTA — Emory University researchers have started vaccinating adult volunteer participants in the first of several national clinical trials of a new H1N1 vaccine.  
The Emory clinical trial will evaluate the safety and immune response to an H1N1 vaccine and help determine how the pandemic and seasonal flu shots should be given to make it most [...]

3-year countdown begins for Atlanta’s water future

Georgia faces the dire prospect of losing metropolitan Atlanta’s main water source if political leaders can’t broker a solution with Alabama and Florida over rights to a major reservoir within three years.
That doomsday scenario would cut off water from Lake Lanier for more than 3 million residents, driving a stake through the heart of Atlanta’s [...]

Atlanta might have to return millions in fed aid

ATLANTA — Atlanta might have to return millions in federal aid money allocated to help some of the city’s poorest communities.
The city expects to give back more than $30 million at year’s end unless program administrators get an extension from the federal government.
Program officials say few applicants have been able to qualify or get the [...]

Noted Atlanta author Paul Hemphill dies

It was said of country music legend Hank Williams that he wove his magic using “three chords and the truth.”
Atlanta writer Paul Hemphill, whose critically well-received biography of Williams was one of his last books, worked that same magic.
As a columnist and author, Hemphill entranced readers chronicling the blue-collar South. He wrote about stock cars [...]

Woman Reportedly Raped at Home of Atlanta Falcons Player Harry Douglas

BUFORD, Ga. — Authorities in Georgia are searching for a suspect accused of raping a woman at a party hosted by an Atlanta Falcons wide receiver.
The woman told Gwinnett County police Thursday morning she was raped at the home of Harry Douglas after she fell asleep in one of the bedrooms.
She told police she [...]

Obama Taps Atlanta Fed Chief For Job

President Obama named Atlanta Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran to head the U.S. Fire Administration, where he will oversee national efforts to prevent fires and improve response.
Cochran, 49, was chief in his hometown of Shreveport, La., when named head of the Atlanta Fire Rescue Department in November 2007. A city budget crisis forced him to make [...]

Gwinnett County: Changes to Library Hours and Services

Branches will be open fewer days and hours, and when they are open, they will be operating with reduced staff. There will be less programming, fewer titles from which to choose, and materials will not be shelved or placed on hold as quickly as customers expect.
Changes will be effective August 9, 2009.

Branches will reduce [...]

Obama donor and supporter forces cancellation of Atlanta tea party

Obama donor and supporter forces cancellation of Atlanta tea party. There are four things President Obama cannot do without: Teleprompters, his PDA, Air Force One and being liked. In response to the April 15 TEA (Taxed Enough Already) parties, he engaged in infantile and cynical mimicry. By so doing, he demonstrated visceral behavior affirming his [...]

Cheating: It doesn’t belong at Peachtree

It’s a great event, OK? As I’ve said before, it’s the great Atlanta event. But when you’ve observed as many Peachtree Road Races as I have, you pick up nuances. And this time it wasn’t a nuance. It was blatant.
I arrived Saturday morning at my viewing spot of choice —- Peachtree Battle, about two miles [...]