It’s an average day and you’re walking with your children across a busy intersection that will soon be hidden in darkness. You and your three children are dropped off by the bus and trying to make it to your home across a busy intersection before it gets dark and oncoming traffic won’t be able to […]
With a new study showing Tuesday that more than 30 percent of Georgians are obese, state public health officials said they are drawing up battle plans to try to stop the epidemic. “We really have declared war on obesity,” said Dr. Kimberly Redding, director of the Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Program at the Georgia […]
Dwight Eubanks won’t be joining the ladies for the next season of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta.” On why he isn’t returning. “We can entertain you, but you still need to be educated. That’s what’s lacking in the television industry. It’s so much buffoonery and craziness out there. I just can’t do it. I refuse […]
*Steven Carter, a 26-year-old pastor, spent the night in an open jail cell with several hundred other men, fearing that he could face several years in prison on a terrorism charge, his employer told the AJC Wednesday. Carter is a preacher at The Church at Southside in Athens, Georgia. The pastor there, Jeff Williams, said […]
Four people died and 13 others were injured when a church van rolled over Sunday night in southwest Georgia, the state patrol said. The Columbus, Ga., church group was southbound on U.S. Highway 27 in Early County when the driver lost control of the van after a rear tire blew out, Gordy Wright, state patrol […]
Darryl L. Foster was near suicide after leaving the church. He was gay, black and Christian. “I was left thinking I was going to hell with no other options,” he said. “The gay community is attractive when the church turns its back on you.” Years later, he went on to found Witness Freedom Ministries in […]
Pants on the ground! Pants on the ground! Lookin’ like a fool with your pants on the ground! A Mayor out in Dublin, GA agrees and has officially made saggin’ pants a crime. Mayor Phil Best has decided that dropping trow is an indecent exposure crime and offenders can be fined up to $200 for […]