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Gwinnett's emergency dispatches enter digital age
11/20/2008 5:10 PM
The recent switchover to a digitally encrypted emergency dispatch system in Gwinnett County has drawn a veil of secrecy around police communications even as it has made transmissions clearer and more secure. The $35 million Motorola P25 digital 911 system was paid for by the voter-approved penny sales tax. Static and interference typical on the old......

Closed crematory sues Snellville to get back in business
11/20/2008 3:15 PM
A controversial crematory in Snellville, ordered to shut down in October after its operating licenses were revoked, is fighting back. The attorney for Chris Nuzum, owner of Cremation Society of the South, has filed a lawsuit against the city of Snellville, its planning department director and its appeals board, directing the city to reissue certifi......

Georgia's hopes fading for reversing water ruling
11/20/2008 2:50 PM
Georgia is running into more resistance in its bid to convince the Supreme Court to overturn a critical ruling that undermined the state's water rights. The Justice Department recently recommended that the high court not take up the case, maintaining in a brief filed last week that Georgia's arguments are flawed and that the issue is not significan......

Duluth wrestles with developing old City Hall
11/20/2008 12:21 PM
Duluth already has decided on the fate of the old City Hall and adjacent museum. What's next to decide is how to redevelop the downtown block while preserving the area's historic sensibility. That was a big question Wednesday night as about 50 residents turned out to offer input on plans for a multi million-dollar mixed-used development at the old ......

3 Meadowcreek football players in jail without bond
11/20/2008 10:40 AM
Four Gwinnett County teenagers — three of them members of this year's Meadowcreek High School football team — are in jail without bond following their arrests this week on armed robbery charges. Sean Frezell and Simon Terzian, both 18, and Cory Huck and Atiim Henderson, both 17, were arrested Monday and charged in connection with the No......

Counties debate, decide to take $81M in foreclosure aid
11/20/2008 9:56 AM
Georgia's largest local governments have all agreed to ask for federal money to create governmental house-flipping programs in hopes of propping up values in neighborhoods beset by foreclosures. In all, Atlanta and Fulton, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Clayton and Cobb counties stand to get about $81 million in federal aid through the Neighborhood Stabilizatio......

Residents awakened by Molotov cocktail in home
11/20/2008 7:27 AM
Two Snellville residents had a rude awakening Wednesday when someone tossed a Molotov cocktail through a ground floor window into their living room. Two people happened to be sleeping in the living room that night when the explosive device came sailing through the window shortly before 5 a.m., igniting a nearby chair, said Gwinnett fire Capt. Thoma......

SWAT team nabs fugitive wanted in shooting
11/20/2008 7:09 AM
Gwinnett deputies on Wednesday arrested a fugitive wanted in connection with a shooting in DeKalb County. Deputies received information Wednesday morning from DeKalb County's fugitive unit that Bertram Alton Gordon was holed up at a residence near Norcross with several firearms. He had also made threats that he was not going back to jail, according......

Educator to use prize money to take class to Obama inauguration
11/19/2008 4:59 PM
Nina Gilbert, the head of the state's first charter school for girls, has won a national award for showing visionary leadership in education. And she isn't planning to spend her $10,000 prize money on a school trip to Disney World. Gilbert's plaid-skirted girls are heading north — to the inauguration festivities of president-elect Barack Obam......

Snellville boy's mom charged in fatal fire
11/19/2008 2:43 PM
A soldier's wife has been charged with setting a fire at their Kentucky Army base home that killed her two young children. Billi Jo Smallwood, 35, also faces a federal charge of attempting to destroy a residential facility for members of the U.S. Army that caused the death of two minors, the U.S. attorney's office announced Tuesday. The May 2007 fi......