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Metro Atlanta hotels drop rates to attract more business (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
The slumping economy is forcing Atlanta hoteliers to lower room rates and add more packages to entice visitors who are increasingly watching their budgets, industry observers say.
20 Nov 2008, 5:00 pm | click here for more
NFL Preview - Carolina (8-2) at Atlanta (6-4) (Miami Herald)
Strong play at the Georgia Dome has helped the Atlanta Falcons become one of the NFL's most improved teams of the 2008 season. It's also a place where the Carolina Panthers have enjoyed visiting in recent years.
20 Nov 2008, 4:43 pm | click here for more
Atlanta firms keep lid on health care costs (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Atlanta employers tamed their health benefits costs in 2008 better than their counterparts nationally, according to a survey released this week.
20 Nov 2008, 2:15 pm | click here for more
Mistrial denied in Atlanta courthouse shooting (The State)
A judge has denied a mistrial for an Atlanta man who escaped during his rape trial and went on a courthouse shooting spree that left four people dead. Jurors are deciding whether 36-year-old Brian Nichols should be executed for killing a judge, a court reporter, a sheriff's deputy and a federal agent in the violence that began in downtown Atlanta. He was convicted earlier this month in the 2005 ...
20 Nov 2008, 2:12 pm | click here for more
Mistrial denied in Atlanta courthouse shooting (The Charlotte Observer)
(By GREG BLUESTEIN, Associated Press Writer) A judge has denied a mistrial for an Atlanta man who escaped during his rape trial and went on a courthouse shooting spree that left four people dead. Jurors are deciding whether 36-year-old Brian Nichols should be executed for killing a judge, a court reporter, a sheriff's deputy and a federal agent in the violence that began in downtown Atlanta. He ...
20 Nov 2008, 1:59 pm | click here for more
Mistrial denied in Atlanta courthouse shooting (AP via Yahoo! News)
A judge has denied a mistrial for an Atlanta man who escaped during his rape trial and went on a courthouse shooting spree that left four people dead.
20 Nov 2008, 1:48 pm | click here for more
Wendy's to lay off 14 locally, move 120 HQ jobs to Atlanta (The Columbus Dispatch)
About 14 local Wendy's employees will lose their jobs early next year and another 120 positions at the Dublin headquarters will move to Atlanta in phases during 2009. In addition, 45 field-organization positions, none in central Ohio, will be eliminated. In September, Triarc Cos. Inc. which already owned Arby's, purchased Wendy's for $2.3 billion. The merged company, known as Wendy's/Arby's ...
20 Nov 2008, 11:54 am | click here for more
Clinton rallies Atlanta support for Jim Martin (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Former President Bill Clinton urged Georgia voters on Wednesday to send the man who will sit in his former office one more deputy — Jim Martin. Clinton told a chilly crowd at Clark Atlanta University to return to the polls on Dec. 2 and elect Martin to the U.S. Senate and reject incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss. Martin, Clinton said, is "the nice of guy we ought to have in public ...
19 Nov 2008, 7:15 pm | click here for more
High-paying jobs on decline in metro Atlanta (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
The Atlanta area's high-paying jobs are declining and its low-paying jobs are increasing. That's one of the trends in Regional Snapshot, an Atlanta Regional Commission report that comes out Thursday. The report also says the 10-county population increase of 70,200 this year is the lowest since 2003, and is 16 percent lower than the annual average for the decade.
19 Nov 2008, 5:30 pm | click here for more
Wendy's/Arby's moving 120 jobs to Atlanta from Ohio (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
The Wendy's/Arby's Group said Wednesday it expects to relocate at least 120 jobs to Atlanta from Ohio for its corporate support middle. Wendy's, based in Dublin, Ohio, and Atlanta-based Triarc, the parent company of Arby's, completed in September a merger to create Atlanta-based Wendy's/Arby's Group. When the deal was announced in April, Triarc and Wendy's said a support middle would be created ...
19 Nov 2008, 4:47 pm | click here for more