Friday, February 19, 2016

Transcript of Budenholzer's post-NBA trade deadline press conference and other top stories.

  • Transcript of Budenholzer's post-NBA trade deadline press conference

    The following is the transcript from Hawks president of basketball operations/head coach Mike Budenholzer’s press conference following the NBA trade deadline Thursday:Opening statement: I would like to start my thanking Shelvin Mack and Justin Holiday for everything they’ve done for us. Both great players, great people. Added a lot of what we’ve done this year, obviously with Shelvin what we’ve done the last three years. I wish them luck. I wish nothing but the best for both of them.I’d also lik..
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  • Family, police search Atlanta homeless shelters for missing ...

    Family, police search Atlanta homeless shelters for missing ...
    Merhawit Shibeshi(Photo: Special to WXIA-TV, Atlanta)CLARKSTON, Ga. -- A desperate search in underway to find a missing Clarkston woman - 26-year-old Merhawit Shibeshi.11Alive's Keith Whitney was live in Atlanta when friends and family set out hoping to find clues on where she might be.There are a lot of places in the city of Atlanta where the homeless take shelter. This woman's family hit many of the big places Thursday night hopeful that someone had seen Merhawit.They came with fliers in hand ..
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  • Weekend lane closures in metro Atlanta to affect Cobb and Fulton ...

    Weekend lane closures in metro Atlanta to affect Cobb and Fulton ...
    Traffic in North Fulton. Jason Getz jgetz@ajc.com Take a look at the list of this weekend’s planned roadwork and lane closures around metro Atlanta’s interstates, according to the Georgia Department of Transportation. Click here to get real-time updates on traffic conditions around the metro area Follow the @AJCWSBTraffic on Twitter to get those updates on the go State Routes • One lane will close on Ga. 237/Piedmont Road at its intersection with Habersham Road from 9 p.m., Friday until 5 a.m...
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  • Networking, economic development focus at Gathering of Eagles

    Networking, economic development focus at Gathering of Eagles
    VALDOSTA — Networking and economic development were the key focuses at the 10th Annual Gathering of the Eagles Thursday at Wiregrass Georgia Technical College.“Networking will enable you to go further in your life than anything I’ve found so far,” said Ricky Steele, one of the featured speakers. “If you create a great network, it will open doors for you that you wouldn’t dream to be possible.”Steele, pulling from his book, “The Heart of Networking,” took people through the key characteristics o..
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  • What happened to the plans for Atlanta Trump Towers?

    What happened to the plans for Atlanta Trump Towers?
    “Nine years ago a triumphant Donald Trump came to Atlanta to announce his plans to revolutionize the midtown Skyline,” WXIA noted. “At the time, 11Alive ...
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  • Exile paints horrors of Syrian war

    Exile paints horrors of Syrian war
    Painted tears fill a woman's eyes, while human flesh dangles from metal hook in front of her. "The country is totally destroyed, and the people also are destroyed," Shamma says."People are fighting their own countrymen, so it is a civil war in a way, and it is a world civil war because it is happening everywhere now. I think it is the third war." Shamma reflects from her Beirut studio.But it wasn't always this way. Shamma was well-known before the war and painted a portrait of Syria's first lady..
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  • Atlanta Airport GM wants TSA to beef up staffing

    Atlanta Airport GM wants TSA to beef up staffing
    Long lines through airport security prompt Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport General Manager Miguel Southwell to deliver an ultimatum to the TSA. If the Transportation Security Administration cannot beef up staffing within 60 days, the Atlanta airport will bring in private contractors to man security checkpoints. Channel 2 Action News obtains a letter written by Southwell, complaining of excessive delays while a majority of screening lanes sit empty and unmanned. He writes he drea..
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  • Atlanta weather | Sunny and breezy afternoon, temps in the 60s

    Don’t leave the jackets at home just yet, but metro Atlantans might be able to get away with taking them off later Friday, according to Channel 2 Action News meteorologists.High pressure moving off the east coast is allowing a southeasterly wind to blow in the metro area and warm it up some, meteorologist Karen Minton said.“We’re looking for sunshine to take you through the course of the afternoon, highs reaching into those lower 60s here in town,” Minton said.Temperatures were 41 degrees in Atl..
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  • DeKalb school to perform in Rose Parade next year

    DeKalb school to perform in Rose Parade next year
    Let the fundraising begin. A metro Atlanta high school band will get to perform in the 2017 Rose Parade in California, the Pasadena Tournament of Roses announced Thursday.The “Kings of Halftime,” the marching band at Martin Luther King Jr. High School in Lithonia, will serve as the only Georgia representative in the New Year’s Day event that began in 1890 to promote Pasadena agriculture as the Mediterranean of the West, according to the Tournament of Roses.The band, one of 19 marching bands to p..
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