Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Braves' Hector Olivera charged with assault, battery and other top stories.

  • Braves' Hector Olivera charged with assault, battery

    WASHINGTON — Braves left fielder Hector Olivera was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault and battery for his alleged involvment in a domestic dispute at the team hotel in Arlington, Va.The 31-year-old Cuban rookie was placed on administrative leave by Major League Baseball per its domestic-violence policy. The Braves are in Washington for a series against the Nationals that runs through Thursday.Police were called to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Pentagon City at 6:51 a.m. Wednesday by a wo..
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  • Patchy light rain possible overnight in metro Atlanta

    Patchy light rain possible overnight in metro Atlanta
    There’s not much in the way of rain, but don’t rule out patchy light showers Wednesday night in metro Atlanta.Rain crossed the Mississippi Valley early and is expected to produce spotty showers locally at about 11 p.m.Those showers will continue into the midnight hour and through Thursday morning.The best chance of rain for metro Atlanta is Thurs., April 14, 2016. (Credit: Channel 2 Action News)“As that moisture continues to ride up over the top of this cool air that’s wedged down the Appalachia..
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  • FBI: Inmate sent letters to Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Georgia Bar

    FBI: Inmate sent letters to Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Georgia Bar
    Suspicious letters delivered this week to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Georgia Bar Association appear to have been sent from an inmate at a corrections facility in Georgia, the FBI said.The suspicious letters in both incidents tested negative for any hazardous materials, FBI spokesman Stephen Emmett said.A hazmat team was called to The AJC’s Dunwoody headquarters after the letter arrived in the mailroom Wednesday morning, newspaper general manager Brian Cooper said in a memo to emplo..
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  • Zika virus causes microcephaly, other birth defects CDC confirms

    Zika virus causes microcephaly, other birth defects CDC confirms
    The Zika virus is definitely the cause of not only microcephaly, but a range of other severe birth defects of the brain, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday.“We conclude that a causal relationship exists between prenatal Zika virus infection and microcephaly and other serious brain anomalies,” wrote the four lead doctors of the CDC’s Zika response team in a paper published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.Zika is the first mosquito-borne virus ever known..
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  • Atlanta Police make arrest in 20-year-old cold case murder

    Atlanta Police make arrest in 20-year-old cold case murder
    Atlanta Police make arrest in 20-year-old cold case murder Arrest in cold case murder of Atlanta mother Michael King, WXIA 9:25 PM. GMT April 13, 2016 Cold case murder suspect, Ralph Williams, 45, is escorted by police outside Atlanta PD Headquarters on Wednesday, April 13, 2016. (Photo: WXIA) ATLANTA (WXIA) – Atlanta Police officials said they have arrested a suspect in a 20-year-old cold case murder on Wednesday afternoon.Cynthia Morris was found dead from..
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  • Atlanta home sales up, yet no surplus of homes for sale

    Atlanta home sales up, yet no surplus of homes for sale
    Sales and prices went up in March, as the region slid toward the peak of the selling season, according to two reports issued late Wednesday.The reports underscore the uneven way that the metro Atlanta housing market has lurched forward in the years since 2007 when the housing bubble burst and 2012 when the overall market began to improve.Overall, there continues to be steady improvement, said Lane McCormack, president of the Atlanta Board of Realtors. “I believe low rates and positive employment..
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  • Chamber focuses on tourism at Early Bird Breakfast

    Chamber focuses on tourism at Early Bird Breakfast
    In October 2015, the tourism team selected Rhyme & Reason, a marketing firm from Atlanta, to help create a new campaign to represent the tourism assets of ...
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  • Council approves controversial road

    Council approves controversial road
    Every single grant we make is approved by the foundation's Atlanta attorneys and is 100 percent legal.” For his part, Sears said the road's plans simply don't add ...
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  • Two bodies found in house in northwest Atlanta; foul play suspected

    Two bodies found in house in northwest Atlanta; foul play suspected
    Two bodies were found in a house Wednesday afternoon in Atlanta, and police said in a media release that foul play is suspected.The discovery of two women’s bodies was made at an abandoned house in the 700 block of Jones Avenue in northwest Atlanta. The bodies were decomposed.At least one of the bodies appeared to have some sort of trauma, Atlanta police said. Homicide investigators are on the scene.— Please return to AJC.com for updates.
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  • Will Smith death: Surveillance video, police search offer clues

    Will Smith death: Surveillance video, police search offer clues
    The Smith family lawyer, Peter Thomson, called a news conference Wednesday afternoon to insist that Smith was not armed when he was killed in downtown New Orleans during a confrontation on a busy street."At no time during this event, to my knowledge at all, did Will Smith ever brandish or carry on his person a firearm," Thomson said in the first extensive comments from the Smith family or its representative.Smith was licensed to carry a concealed weapon that may have been inside the vehicle, but..
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