December, 2011 Archives

On December 31, 2004, Ricardo Palmera, also known as “Simon Trinidad,” was extradited to the United States on charges of drug smuggling and kidnapping. Palmera was a senior leader of the Colombian rebel group the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC). Colombian President Alvaro Uribe agreed to Palmera’s transfer to US authorities after the FARC [...]

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On December 31, 2009, Judge Richardo M. Urbina of the US District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed voluntary manslaughter and weapons charges against five Blackwater guards indicted for their involvement in the deaths of 17 Iraqi civilians in September 2007. Following the dismissal, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki stated that Iraq rejected the [...]

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Print E-mail By Joel Provano and John Spink The Atlanta Journal-Constitution A 103-year-old Atlanta woman who was spared foreclosure on the home she’s lived in for half a century received a belated Christmas present Thursday. John Spink, jpsink@ajc.com Vinia Hall, 103, who was spared foreclosure on the Atlanta home she’s lived in for half a [...]

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Print E-mail By Steve Visser The Atlanta Journal-Constitution The Jim Cox Jr. Foundation has established the Betty Gage Holland Chair in Neurology at the Emory University School of Medicine. Holland, who died in 2004, was married for 15 years to James M. Cox Jr., who presided over Cox Enterprises until his death in 1974. The [...]

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Print E-mail By Mike Morris and Joel Provano The Atlanta Journal-Constitution The 19-year-old woman who claimed she was being held hostage in a home in Buckhead has been released from the Fulton County Jail. John Spink, jspink@ajc.com Attorney Raymon Burns (left) addresses court for client Alexandra Dahm, a 19-year-old woman who claimed she was being [...]

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Paulding County Schools could receive a late Christmas present with your help: $100,000. That’s because the Felix family’s light display, which this week was named Dallas-Hiram Patch’s nominee for Patch’s nationwide Deck the House contest, has been named one of the 24 finalists. Patch users—you—have until Jan. 8 to vote for the Best Decked House [...]

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1) Peach Drop 2011 at Midnight When/Where: Underground Atlanta, 50 Upper Alabama St., 11 A.MSaturday 2011 until 4 A.M. Sunday 2012 The Event: The New Year is approaching; everyplace has its own way of counting down, from Time Square in New York City to the Power of Houston in Texas, but no place will have [...]

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  When it comes to the level of fan interest for sports in southwest Atlanta, nothing rivals the passion behind football, basketball, and to some degree, baseball. However, if one was to scratch beneath the surface, lurking in the rear and gaining momentum is tennis. Just this past spring, Westlake High School’s boys’ squad became [...]

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