Monday, August 11, 2008
News Morning headlines
Posted by Scott Freeman on Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:55 PM
BULLDOGGED: Did an Athens site for a federal research facility get left off the finalist list because of politics? It's suspicious that a site in Mississippi that scored lower than Athens on the Department of Homeland Security's checklist made the pool of finalists, and Athens didn't.
ADULT SWIM: Squirty the loggerhead sea turtle makes its first foray into the ocean, and 1,000 people gather at Tybee Island to watch.
STEEP HILL: Clayton County is so exasperated with Sheriff Victor Hill that it has filed papers in federal court asking that a special monitor be appointed to run the sheriff's department until Hill's term expires.
SKIPPING A BEAT: The Braves are back in Atlanta for the first time since Skip Caray died. And Pete Van Wieren dreads a press box that doesn't have Skip holding court.
JUDGMENT DAY: The former judge in the Brian Nichols trial joins the chorus of those who say the reason the trial is so costly is because Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard has turned a simple, one-week trial into a tangled mess of hundreds of witnesses and a dozen crime scenes.
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