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Atlanta
Capital of the New South, where everyday is an opening day.
As a kid roaming the hilly woods of East Atlanta in the 1930s and '40s, Gene Benton didn't think too much about the Minié balls and belt buckles he and his friends found buried in the ground. Benton's childhood home on East Side Avenue sat amidst the killing fields of the Battle of Atlanta, a Civil War clash that claimed 12,000 Confederate and Union lives and led to Atlanta's surrender in 1864. Saturday, a tiny portion of that battlefield was again alive with the sound of cannon and rifles as Civil War re-enactors staged a living history of the epic battle, which marks its 144th anniversary Tuesday.
The effort to find a jury for Brian Nichols ended its eighth day Saturday with 57 potential jurors questioned and 24 qualified for the 100-member jury pool. At this rate, the pool should be completed by the last week of August. The recitations were the same before each person took a seat in the jury box and just before they left. Judge James Bodiford spoke first and last, giving the same explanations, the same questions and the same warning not to talk about the case, whether they are kept in the pool from which they would draw 12 jurors and six alternates to hear the Brian Nichols death penalty trial.
The graduate students could have raked in pricey consulting fees, but the Harman family instead brought their favorite form of currency — tomatoes. The students in Georgia Tech's global executive MBA program in Atlanta have pooled their talents to help develop a business plan and Web site for the family's tomato farm in Opelika, Ala. The Harmans started the project two years ago to raise more than $100,000 needed to outfit a sport utility vehicle for their 17-year-old daughter, Megan, who uses a wheelchair because of arthrogryposis, a congenital tissue disorder.
Fulton County police Friday arrested a pair of suspected car thieves after a nearly six-hour stand-off, along with the owner of the home where they hid out. Negotiators and the SWAT team made contact with a 16-year-old just before 9 p.m., after he'd been barricaded in a south Fulton home since early in the afternoon. Moments later, Cpl. Melissa Parker said, his accomplice, 19-year-old Lonnie Favors, emerged and was arrested.
Generations gathered at Mattie Jackson's home on Ormond Street for birthdays, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Jackson called out recipients of Christmas gifts from a stack of presents 5 feet tall, her daughter Sheryl Calhoun recalled. Friday, the one-story home with a screened-in porch was a torched, blackened shell. The home and Jackson, a leader of the Summerhill neighborhood near Turner Field, were victims of arson, authorities said. No one was injured. "I just can't believe someone would dare to do something like this," said Jackson, 86.
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