First Slice 5-16-16: 'Wire' actor arrested after allegedly attacking Bernie Sanders supporter

Plus, college presidents set to see paychecks rise

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Atlanta Police over the weekend arrested Wendell Pierce, the actor best known for roles in "The Wire," "Treme," and most recently, "Confirmation," in a Midtown hotel for allegedly attacking a Bernie Sanders supporter (Pierce is a Hillary Clinton fan).

Presidents of state colleges and universities, including Georgia Tech's Bud Peterson, Georgia State University's Mark Becker, and the University of Georgia's Jere Morehead, are about to see annual pay raises. What about you? 

Monorail! In Perimeter Center! It's one of the solutions that community improvement district officials are considering to connect parts of the growing yet congested area to MARTA. 

State environmental regulators say they plan to go "above and beyond" new federal rules about Georgia power plants' coal-ash ponds. But residents are concerned about landfills that are planning to accept coal-ash waste from other states.

A Democratic candidate seeking to represent part of Gwinnett County in the Georgia House of Representatives says a residency challenge against her is a "a last minute desperate distraction tactic and effort to undermine my name and the great campaign we have been running."

Mark Zuckerberg had grand plans for a whole generation of Indians to discover the internet that just happened to be curated by Facebook. Things have not gone well, according to the Guardian

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, the major political parties' likely presidential nominees, could start receiving daily intelligence briefings






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