First Slice 8/17/14: Massive steel transit beast spotted on Downtown streets
Plus, Soren, the owl that eats secrets, has been found
Did you and your loved ones venture Downtown and watch the Atlanta Streetcar get “tow-tested” on the tracks linking Centennial Olympic Park and the King Center early on Saturday morning?
Congressman Doug Collins, R-Georgia, says an atheist group that’s raised concerns about a Hall County high school football team’s pre-game banners and promotions is a bunch of bullies. “It’s utterly disgusting that while innocent lives are being lost in Iraq and other places at the hands of radical religious terrorists,” Collins said, “a bunch of Washington lawyers are finding the time to pick on kids in Northeast Georgia.” Damn lawyers.
Soren the Truth Owl, the winged guardian of justice that recently escaped from its confines at Zoo Atlanta, was discovered less than one mile away and returned to the Grant Park attraction.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is trying to find out who killed Afolabi Odifa while he was driving his taxi over the weekend. Odifa came to the United States six years ago and leaves behind a wife and 8-month-old son.
One person was shot and seven arrested during an overnight curfew in Ferguson, Mo., where residents are protesting the shooting of Michael Brown by a police officer.
ICYMI: Luke O’Donovan, a student who says he was defending himself when he stabbed several people during an altercation at a Reynoldstown party, was sentenced to 10 years - eight of which he’ll be on probation and banished from all but one county in Georgia.