First Slice 9/12/14: Fulton announces early weekend voting in multiple locations

Fulton County voters will be able to cast ballots during the two weekends before November’s election at multiple locations in North Fulton, the city of Atlanta, and South Fulton.

Turner Broadcasting is up for additional tax breaks from Fulton County in a move that officials hope will help retain local jobs. The tax breaks are contingent on Turner having 7,000 employees in Fulton by the end of 2018. That is 500 more employees than Turner currently has in the county. So there’s that hurdle as well as the fact that Turner recently offered buyouts to nearly 600 workers and a swarm of layoffs are expected in the coming months. Turner has its own ideas on whether keeping jobs locally plays a part in the tax break deal.

According to new documents released by the Cobb County police, Geddy Lee Kramer, the man who shot six employees at a Fed Ex facility in Cobb Couny before killing himself, also had an elaborate plan for a massacre at his high school, North Cobb. Kramer lacked the funds to carry out his elaborate plan that included shootings and bombs as well as locks and chains for doors. Kramer shelved the plan and graduated in May of 2013.

Sack of dead beavers is the new horse head in the bed. Chad Artimovich of Cumming has been charged with illegal dumping after police discovered he had dropped off a sack of rotting beaver carcasses in the parking lot of a local TitleMax. Artimovich said TitleMax was harassing his family over $4,000 in lending debt. According to the officer who discovered the contents of the sack, the smell was “atrocious” and lingered for hours afterwards in the officer’s patrol car.