Friday, August 4, 2017

6 peach cocktails to sip around Atlanta and other top stories.

  • 6 peach cocktails to sip around Atlanta

    6 peach cocktails to sip around Atlanta
    Elberta Fashion is a peachy Old Fashioned riff. Photo courtesy of Eight Sushi. The end of the peach season is nigh, Atlanta, and it wasn’t the best of years for the state fruit. It’s estimated Georgia farmers lost 80% of their peaches after a warmer than average winter followed by a deep freeze in March killed off the blooms of prematurely flowering trees. This could equal a loss of nearly $50 million dollars when the final numbers are tallied later this summer. Chefs and bartenders around the..
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  • Atlanta police release sketch in Georgia State University officer's ...

    Atlanta police release sketch in Georgia State University officer's ...
    Atlanta police have released a sketch of one of the men involving a shooting that injured an off-duty Georgia State University police officer with the hopes of gathering any leads.  Off-duty Officer LaToya Denise Crook  was walking with her friend on the 1400 block of Donnely Avenue when two men came up to them Monday night and tried to rob them, Atlanta police said. The suspects are still at large. Crook suffered a gunshot wound to the torso and hand during a struggle with one of the men, p..
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  • Health check: Atlanta sushi bar had cakes prepared at employee's ...

    Health check: Atlanta sushi bar had cakes prepared at employee's ...
    A downtown Atlanta sushi bar failed a recent health inspection, Fulton County records show. Satto Thai and Sushi Bar scored a 35/U following the July 25 evaluation. Scores below 70 are considered failing. Its prior score, from December, was a 95. According to the report, cakes for customers were prepared at an employee’s home. That violates the code that says food must be obtained from an approved source. Officials also reported that an employee handled cooked spring rolls with bare hands a..
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  • Rules pitched for private murals in Atlanta

    Rules pitched for private murals in Atlanta
    Rules pitched for private murals in Atlanta A new ordinance is being proposed to regulate public murals on private property. Doug Richards, WXIA 6:53 PM. EDT August 03, 2017 ATLANTA — Critics are questioning the constitutionality of a proposed Atlanta city ordinance that would regulate outdoor murals on private property.  The ordinance requires four layers of regulatory approval for the art—which is unregulated now.  Fabian Williams created a 60 foot-high mural depicting civil ..
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  • 6 months later, suspect arrested in teen's shooting death

    6 months later, suspect arrested in teen's shooting death
    A 26-year-old man who was on Atlanta’s Most Wanted list was arrested in Detroit Thursday, six months and one day after he allegedly shot and killed a 16-year-old girl in southwest Atlanta, officials said. Dwight Lewis, who is charged with murder in the killing of Keosha Tinch, was arrested without incident, the FBI said in a statement. He is in a jail in Detroit awaiting extradition back to Atlanta. Atlanta police said Tinch was sitting in the back seat of an SUV outside an apartment complex..
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  • 1 adult, 5 teens arrested after chase, crash in west Atlanta

    1 adult, 5 teens arrested after chase, crash in west Atlanta
    1 adult, 5 teens arrested after chase, crash in west Atlanta Christopher Buchanan, WXIA 8:22 PM. EDT August 03, 2017 (Photo: Courtesy of Shon Carter for WXIA) ATLANTA -- One adult and five teens were arrested, Thursday, after running from police twice before ultimately standing a stolen SUV on end.Atlanta police report that officers first attempted a traffic stop of the vehicle on Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard around 1:30 p.m. But officers eventually lost sight of the S..
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  • Witnesses claim abuse by Atlanta police of Uber driver

    Witnesses claim abuse by Atlanta police of Uber driver
    ATLANTA (CBS46) - Atlanta's Uber and Lyft drivers are claiming abuse by the Atlanta Police Department. They have video showing a police confrontation with an Uber driver all because of a decal in the wrong place.Wanda Miller says the officers did her a huge favor because now she has on tape what she calls repeated mistreatment by officers toward ride sharing drivers.Miller was a witness Wednesday during an exchange where an Uber driver was parked in the Rideshare Assembly Lot used b..
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  • LEADOFF: Will Alabama, Florida State play twice in Atlanta this ...

    LEADOFF: Will Alabama, Florida State play twice in Atlanta this ...
    Good morning. This is LEADOFF, today’s early look at Atlanta sports.  Alabama and Florida State will meet in a season-opening Chick-fil-A Kickoff game on Sept. 2 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Will the same two teams return to Atlanta on Jan. 8 to meet in the College Football Playoff national championship game?  Rece Davis, host of ESPN’s College GameDay show, says he “absolutely” thinks so.  “You’ll see Alabama-Florida State in September, and you’ll see them again in January,” he said while..
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  • Lynx outscore Dream 23-2 in 4th quarter, reach 20 wins

    Lynx outscore Dream 23-2 in 4th quarter, reach 20 wins
    Transcripts of President Donald Trump's conversations with the leaders of Mexico and Australia in January offer new details on how the president parried with the leaders over the politics of the border wall and refugee policy — with random asides on such subjects as drug abuse in New Hampshire. The president's exchanges with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull just a week after the inauguration were widely reported upon at the time. ..
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  • A map of all the places Baby Driver filmed in Atlanta

    A map of all the places Baby Driver filmed in Atlanta
    A map of all the places Baby Driver filmed in Atlanta Consider this your definitive list August 3, 2017Matt WalljasperComments This post office? Not actually a post office.Photograph by Wilson Webb ©2017 TriStar Pictures, Inc. and MRC II Distribution Company L.P. All Rights Reserved.By now you’ve seen Baby Driver, right? If not, you should; I’ll wait. Writer/director Edgar Wright practically gave Atlanta an open love letter in his action-filled, music-driven, heist getaway flick. And yeah, we..
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Man arrested after standoff at midtown condo .2 people shot outside Atlanta food mart .
Yale students join resolution to push Exxon Mobil for more transparency in lobbying .Delta hopes to catch up on days of delays by Sunday afternoon .

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