A Search Engine for Roswell

ajc.com —  2+ hour, 20+ min ago

...On the day he steps down as chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, David Shafer will likely take the stage one more time with Donald Trump.... ...For Shafer, it marks a fitting conclusion to a tumultuous -year tenure that has largely been defined by the former president.... ...Senate to Democrats, electing Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock in 2021.... ...Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has named Shafer a target in her wide-ranging criminal probe into election meddling....

atlantadailyworld.com —  1+ hour, 2+ min ago

...Vice President Kamala Harris is putting forth new actions to tackle racial bias in home appraisals.... ...Models (AVM), which are algorithms used to determine the value of homes, The Hill reports.... ...The new actions come two years after President Joe Biden announced the creation of the Interagency Task Force on Property Appraisal and Valuation... ...Equity (PAVE) on the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre....

atlantadailyworld.com —  1+ hour, 6+ min ago

...A Maryland man went from working as a sanitation worker to earning his juris doctorate from Harvard Law School.... ...Rehan Staton, 27, told ABC News that his family “started to run into a lot of financial insecurities” when he was in second grade.... ...Staton attended Bowie State University before transferring to the University of Maryland.... ...He passed the LSAT and was accepted into Harvard Law School....

ajc.com —  7+ hour, 50+ min ago

...A Columbia County Superior Court judge ruled in favor of the churches,.... ...The two churches, Trinity on the Hill United Methodist Church and Mann-Mize United Methodist Church, filed a lawsuit to restart the disaffiliation... ...Harold Buckley Jr., conference chancellor, said the conference was required by the court to hold the vote on the Augusta churches, saying not to... ...Delegates to the South Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church voted in May to let 193 churches leave the denomination....

atlantadailyworld.com —  10+ hour, 33+ min ago

...in a statement shared by the Black Film Center & Archive.... ...Jessie Maple, Cinematographer, director and pioneer in the film industry, has died at the age of 76.... ...After attending Ossie Davis" Third World Cinema through the National Education Television Training School, Maple was hired as an apprentice editor... ...Maple and her husband  Leroy Patton would go on to found LJ Productions, which screened films in Harlem, NY by independent and Black filmmakers....

ajc.com —  3+ hour, 6+ min ago

...Herring"s current contract with Atlanta Public Schools ends in June 2024. “So long as she is the Superintendent, Dr.... ...The Atlanta school board announced Friday it won't offer Superintendent Lisa Herring a contract extension.... ...APS parent Amy Harward opposed extending Herring"s contract.... ...In the fall of 2019, the board decided not to extend then-Superintendent Meria Carstarphen"s contract....

ajc.com —  12+ hour, 8+ min ago

...The Georgia insurance commissioner has shut down the insurance company Friday Health, which insures more than 35,000 Georgians on the Affordable... ...Georgia announced Wednesday it was placing Friday Health in receivership, joining all six other Friday Health states in saying that they had to take... ...The office of Georgia insurance commissioner John King said policyholders who switch by July 31 should avoid any lapse in coverage.... ...The company raised more than $300 million in venture capital, Modern Healthcare reported, citing Crunchbase data....

ajc.com —  1+ day ago

...June 17 for Gritters Library to prepare for the construction of a new library at the site in Shaw Park off Canton Road in northeast Cobb.... ...Plains Road, Marietta south of the Shallowford Road intersection.... ...During the rebuild of the new Gritters Library, the Mountain View Regional Library will serve as the go-to location for Gritters patrons at 3320 Sandy...

ajc.com —  3+ hour, 43+ min ago

...Herring"s current contract with Atlanta Public Schools ends in June 2024. “So long as she is the Superintendent, Dr.... ...The Atlanta school board announced Friday it won't offer Superintendent Lisa Herring a contract extension.... ...APS parent Amy Harward opposed extending Herring"s contract.... ...In the fall of 2019, the board decided not to extend then-Superintendent Meria Carstarphen"s contract....

ajc.com —  3+ hour, 20+ min ago

...After a year of negotiations, the family that owns the 14,000-acre Pine Log Wildlife Management Area in Bartow County told the state it's time to... ...Jim Ramseur, the Neel family"s representative, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution those negotiations hit an impasse, with the state's final offer... ...Pine Log"s main entrance off Stamp Creek Road northeast of Cartersville is now locked, a DNR spokesperson confirmed to the AJC.... ...The Neel family placed Pine Log and thousands of additional acres in Bartow and Cherokee counties for sale last summer....