Three adults are dead and one injured after a man opened fire at the Athens Community Theatre off Prince Avenue this afternoon.
The shooter was identified as George Zinkhan, a marketing professor at the University of Georgia, said Athens-Clarke Assistant Police Chief Alan Brown. Zinkhan is still at large, Brown said.
Vine City's JFK Park after last year's tornado
One year after a tornado tore through Atlanta, researchers at the University of Georgia and Purdue University say the city’s asphalt splendor may have helped create the destructive storm:
Cities like Atlanta are full of concrete asphalt and other man-made materials which make the cities hotter than surrounding areas – the so-called urban heat island effect. That urban environment probably intensified the storm into a damaging tornado, the researchers believe.
The jagged contours of the urban landscape as well as the heat pouring off the city helped intensify the pattern of rising, converging air currents that culminated in the violent tornado, Shepherd said.
“The storm system acted like a hammer, and the urban area like a chisel,” Niyogi said.
(Vine City photo by Thomas Wheatley, homepage photo of tornado damage from Andisheh Nouraee’s Flickr)
Remember the AJC’s story about Gov. Sonny Perdue’s $21 million loan? He borrowed the cash from a small bank in Perry, Ga., for his two agricultural businesses, which, unlike previous governors, he’s opted to continue running while he also manages a state of 9 MILLION PEOPLE. Repayment of the loan, the article said, is due in March.
Perdue’s office told the AJC that he wouldn’t disclose the specifics of the loan. The Athens Banner-Herald’s editorial board has laid down the funk on Perdue for his tightlipped behavior.
Retrospective, you say? I love retrospectives!
