Morning headlines
May 9, 2008 at 10:41 am by Russell McLendon in NewsOBAMA: Tries to solidify his standing as presumptive nominee by visiting the House of Representatives and taking a “victory lap,” as the NYT calls it.
BONEHEADED: Without even being asked, teen being questioned about an unrelated crime tells police officers that he and a friend dug up a 1921 grave, stole the skull and made a bong out of it.
ATLANTA NO. 1 FOR SINGLES: Maybe now there actually will be thousands of local singles waiting for our call.
BAN KI-MOON: U.N. secretary-general, while visiting Atlanta, calls for Myanmar to allow in foreign aid workers.
CLAYTON COUNTY: Has the best-tasting water in metro Atlanta.
BURNING TO THE VICK: Judge orders Michael Vick to repay more than $2.4 million to a Canadian bank for defaulting on a loan.
UNIONS FIGHT LAYOFFS: Fired city workers and union leaders say Mayor Franklin didn’t exhaust enough short-term options before laying off 441 employees.
YOU’VE COME A LONG WAY, RABIES: Hall County has its 20th reported case of rabies this year. AccessNorthGa has used one of its finest rabies file photos for this story.
EVENT VERIZON: Girl discovers that a Verizon store manager, while doing an “emergency battery charge” on her phone, sent himself a copy of a revealing photo she had taken of herself on her phone. WSB is so outraged on her behalf that it posted a (cropped) copy of the photo on its home page.
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May 9th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
I accidentally made eye contact with that rabies raccoon. Now I just KNOW he’s going to come over and hit me up for spare change.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
I’ve always wondered…do these “singles rankers” count the gay and lesbian population that are in committed relationships as “single” because they can’t technically get married?
If so, its not really accurate.