Last Week July 01 2000
June 20:
Hello?: A Sandy Springs attorney files suit on behalf of BellSouth customers who lost service for a week when a contractor snipped some cables. ... New twist on an old theme: Republicans in Rockdale County suggest that Democrats re-opened qualifying for a state House position in order to attract a white candidate rather than supporting a black candidate.
June 21:
Beggars can’t be choosers: The state Department of Human Resources announces a program called Good Works designed to get the “hard-core unemployed” off the welfare rolls by 2001. ... It’s just foraging, OK? State wildlife officials reassure complaining Butts Countians that the bears digging through garbage in their trailer parks are just looking for (like, what else?) food.
June 22:
The land of Canin’: Korean immigrant Young Lee faints when she is sentenced to serve two years for the 1998 caning of her step-daughter in Gwinnett County. ... The wrath of grandpa: A 60-year-old Zion Hill Baptist Church deacon shoots and injures the man charged with the kidnapping, statutory rape and child abuse of the deacon’s runaway granddaughter in south Fulton County. ... P.E. or not P.E., that is the question: The state School Board votes to allow local school boards to decide whether they will include physical education classes in their curriculums.
June 23:
In a conciliatory mood: Gov. Roy Barnes talks to the Georgia School Boards Association in Savannah and promises them more help in building schools. ... Fighting for air: United Airlines tells Congress it intends to expand its Charlotte hub and go head-to-head - er, well, hopefully not — with Delta if its proposed merger with U.S. Air is approved. ... It’s paved with good intentions: A Los Angeles-based anti-mass-transit traffic planner tells Atlanta officials that the only way to beat congestion is with more roads.
June 24:
Fighting over the car keys: A driver fatally shoots a dispatcher for Yellow Cab Co. of Atlanta. ... Smoked out: A fire at a Jonesboro apartment complex displaces 33 people. ... We’re queer, we’re here: Hundreds of thousands gather at Piedmont Park for Atlanta Pride. ... Get ‘em while they’re hot: NHL newcomers, the Atlanta Thrashers, land the overall best player in the league’s draft, Dany Heatley, a freshman at the University of Wisconsin.
June 25:
How many times do we have to write this story?: A pickup truck carrying two sleeping grade-schoolers is stolen in Chamblee when the boys’ father leaves the keys in the ignition and the kids inside while paying for gas. ... Fifty years after: Veterans of the Korean War join with South Korean immigrants in Atlanta to commemorate the day that North Korea invaded its southern neighbor, launching a three-year war that claimed 55,000 American lives.
June 26:
Cut like a tomahawk chop: The Braves ban the club’s television crew from the team’s charter plane after the crew correctly reports that the Turner Field batter’s box had been shortened five inches between Friday’s game and Saturday’s game. ... Not even a kiss goodbye: Six executives of MediaOne’s Atlanta office resign right after the area’s largest cable provider is swallowed by AT&T. ... Silence observed: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that all criminal defendants still have a right to receive Miranda warnings.??