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600 jobs to fill at career fair
May 16, 2012 at 11:48 AM

NORCROSS, Ga. -- More than 50 hiring managers are expected at a career fair for veterans Thursday.

Organizers of the 3 in One Career Expo say more than 600 positions are available.

Thursday's event will be part military career fair, part health fair and part education fair....more

It will be held from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at Beaver Ruin Road Baptist Church at 1200 Beaver Ruin Road in Norcross.

While the event is targeting veterans, the public is also welcome.

Jobseekers are encouraged to preregister online at www.employmentseeker.net and show up in professional attire with plenty of resumes.
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Sanders Financial Management Chairman Emily Sanders Leads Panel at Atlanta Women’s Leadership Forum
May 15, 2012 at 9:18 AM

Emily Sanders, Chairman and CEO of Sanders Financial Management, moderated a panel at the 14th Annual Women’s Leadership Forum, held May 4, 2012, at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta. Sanders, consistently ranked one of the top women in wealth management nationwide, led a discussion on...more “Developing Relationships That Support Entrepreneurial Success.”
The Women’s Leadership Forum is presented by Atlanta Business Chronicle, in partnership with the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University.
The experts on the panel included:Henna Inam, Transformational Leadership, Inc.Mary Parker, ALL(n)1 Security, Inc.Tamika Stokes Goins, Jordan+Taylor
Building a business is familiar territory to Sanders, who founded Sanders Financial Management in 1994 and shepherded its growth into a financial advisory firm with more than $200 million in assets under management.
“Women have been leading the way in entrepreneurship, starting new businesses at nearly twice
Downtown, Midtown, Canton, lawrenceville, buckhead, decatur, marietta, norcross, alpharetta, doraville, buford, duluth, Chamblee, Suwanee, Tucker, Dunwoody, Johns Creek, Smyrna/Vinings, Stone Mountain, Sandy Springs, emory

Local moms chart new career in couture
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May 14, 2012 at 1:16 PM

(WXIA) --- On Sunday, mothers will be honored with cards, flowers and perhaps a little well-deserved rest and relaxation. However, a mother's work is never done, and that's especially the case for moms with a business focused on -- moms.

Two metro-Atlanta ladies are behind a growing...more business that's centered around celebrating motherhood. 

Vicki Stern-Brown, a mother of two teenagers, is one of them. In a printing facility in Norcross, she's going over the final ink selection for her latest design. It's one of 75 t-shirts that have been  through her Atlanta-based apparel line.

Jill Wirka, a mother of three young children, is Vicki's business partner.

"She's the more creative one and I deal with the sales piece," Wirka explains. 

"I love the paperwork and the percentages."

Together, they're creating colorful clothing for moms. 

The idea was born out of Vicki's frustration. A former attorney, Vicki, stayed at home with
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11 Gwinnett students named Gates Millennium Scholars
May 14, 2012 at 11:37 AM

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. -- Eleven graduating seniors in Gwinnett County public schools have been named 2012 Gates Millennium Scholars.
The prestigious Gates Millennium Scholarship, which is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, pays full college tuition, room and board for some of...more the country's most promising young people. Only 1,000 students earn the scholarship every school year.
This year's Gates Millennium Scholars from Gwinnett County include:
Collins Hill High School
Vivek Kamlesh Patel
Will attend the University of Georgia
Major: Pre-medicine
Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Arsalan Akkas Sufi
Will attend Yale University
Major: Undecided
Meadowcreek High School
Alex Shaun Steele
Will attend the University of Georgia
Major: Computer engineering
Mill Creek High School
Seung Kwan Baek
Will attend Harvard University
Major: International relations
Mountain View High
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Carter's adding 600 jobs in Braselton; 250 right now
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May 10, 2012 at 1:47 PM
More than 4,000 applicants are chasing 600 jobs at the new $50 million Carter's Distribution Center in Braselton through Saturday.

$17M settlement in deadly Philly duck boat crash
May 10, 2012 at 5:17 AM

PHILADELPHIA -- A $17 million settlement has been reached in the wrongful-death case of two Hungarian students killed in a duck boat collision with a barge in Philadelphia.

Attorneys say families of the victims will split $15 million and 18 surviving passengers will split $2 million....more

The surprise settlement came Wednesday after just two days of testimony in what was supposed to be a month-long federal trial.

A tugboat-guided barge slammed into the amphibious duck boat on the Delaware River in July 2010.

The two Hungarian students' families filed wrongful-death lawsuits against K-Sea Transportation of East Brunswick, N.J., which operated the tugboat pushing the barge upriver, and Ride the Ducks of Norcross, Ga., which operated the tour boat.

K-Sea Transportation and Ride the Ducks blamed each other.
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Possum-ridden family left with few legal options
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May 9, 2012 at 4:48 PM

NORCROSS, Ga. (WXIA) -- Possums invading a first floor apartment is not something anyone would want to experience.

Since early April, Lakisha Dominick said she, her husband and two children have killed eight of them in their apartment.

The family says they repeatedly told...more management at the Highland Lakes Apartments in Norcross about it, but despite exterminators, they said the possums just kept showing up.

Dominick says she even brought two of them to the front office looking for help.

Fearing illness or disease, the family has since moved out of the apartment and for now, they are living with relatives.

Management has offered another apartment, but they said that wouldn't be available until mid-June. Dominick says management has also offered a month's free rent. But the family wants more.

But in Georgia, what Dominick is entitled to is quite limited.

11Alive's Bill Liss put Dominick together with an Atlanta
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Missing Warner Robins boy found safe
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May 9, 2012 at 9:06 AM
Thursday morning, Warner Robins Police Chief Brett Evans said searchers had found 10-year-old Kit Colburn, the 10-year-old boy who disappeared Tuesday afternoon.

Possums invade home, family moves out but still must pay rent
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May 9, 2012 at 4:22 AM

NORCROSS, Ga. -- Possums have been invading a family's ground-floor apartment at the Highland Lakes Apartments in Norcross.

There have been so many "invasions," the residents -- Lakisha Dominick and her husband and their two daughters, ages 4 and 8 -- have moved out.  But they...more cannot break their lease. The parents are still paying rent on the apartment even though they have moved in with relatives elsewhere.

Dominick said Tuesday that they first saw possums in their fireplace on April 4. 

"We were watching TV," she said. "And I hear a scratching noise.  And it's basically, I looked -- it's a possum.  The mama possum, in the fireplace."

Since then, she said, she and her husband have killed eight possums that were scurrying around their apartment.

Exterminators have not figured out how the possums are getting inside.

"They came, they put out traps, they did whatever they did, but whatever they did did not work. It did not
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Judge asks for settlement talks in duck boat lawsuit
May 8, 2012 at 9:53 PM

PHILADELPHIA -- A federal trial has been put on hold in the Philadelphia tour boat crash that killed two Hungarian students.

The judge presiding in the nonjury trial has asked the parties in the case to try to negotiate a settlement. The trial started Monday.

A...more tugboat-guided barge slammed into the amphibious duck boat in July 2010, killing two Hungarian students.

Their families have filed wrongful death lawsuits against K-Sea Transportation, of East Brunswick, N.J., which operated the tugboat pushing the barge upriver, and Norcross, Ga.-based Ride the Ducks, which operated the tour boat.

U.S. District Judge Thomas O'Neill wants the groups to negotiate. An attorney representing the Hungarian families says it's unclear how long talks will go.
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GAC girls named state champs in golf, track
May 8, 2012 at 10:01 AM

NORCROSS, Ga. -- It's been a great season for the Lady Spartans of Greater Atlanta Christian School.
Both the golf and track teams have been named state champions for Region AA.
The golfers clinched their victory Monday at Goshen Plantation Golf Club in Augusta, where they defeated...more rival Vidalia by one stroke.
Freshman Bailey Tardy was the low medalist with a score of one over par. Her fellow freshmen Elizabeth Mizell and Claire Maxa both shot an 84, while the final team member, junior Kathryn Fazekas, shot an 86.
The girls' track team placed first overall in Saturday's state championship in Albany, coming up from last place to beat Blessed Trinity, Decatur and Westminster for the title.
The relay team of Brittany Arnold (12th), Maileka Slayton (11th), Airica Palmer (9th) and Kayin Mujahid (11th) set a new AA record of 47.31 seconds in the 4x100 meter run and another record of 3:51:46 in the 4x400 meter run.
Slayton also placed first in the 100 meter dash;
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Fatal duck boat crash trial begins
May 7, 2012 at 1:42 AM

PHILADELPHIA -- A trial is getting under way in federal court to determine the dollar amount two vessel operators may have to pay following a collision of a tugboat-guided barge and a sightseeing boat two years ago in Philadelphia that left two Hungarian students dead.

Szabolcs Prem,...more 20, and Dora Schwendtner, 16, whose group was visiting the U.S. through a church exchange program, drowned when their amphibious tour boat capsized and sank after being struck by an empty sludge barge in the Delaware River on July 7, 2010.

The families have filed wrongful death lawsuits against K-Sea Transportation of East Brunswick, N.J., which operated the tugboat guiding the barge upriver; Ride the Ducks of Norcross, Ga., which operated the tour boat; the city of Philadelphia, which owned the barge; and others.

Before the wrongful death lawsuit may proceed, however, a judge must decide whether a limit should be set on the financial liability of the two boat owners. By
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Teen arrested for shooting, killing man
May 1, 2012 at 8:07 AM
An 18-year-old Atlanta man was arrested for shooting and killing another man at a Mableton apartment complex.

Teammate charged in deadly post-prom wreck
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Apr 30, 2012 at 6:05 PM

NORCROSS, Ga. -- A 19-year-old Meadowcreek High School senior faces vehicular homicide charges for a crash that killed his track teammate.

RELATED | Teen killed, 3 hurt driving to prom after-party 

RELATED | Local businesses offer prom advice to parents

Gwinnett...more County Police said DeJon Wideman was driving 16-year-old Johlanda Lindsey and two other girls to a prom after-party early Sunday when he crossed the center line of Steve Reynolds Boulevard to avoid hitting a car in front of him. Police said he hit an oncoming car instead.

Lindsey and another passenger were ejected from the car. Police said none of them were wearing seatbelts.

The two surviving girls, who are sisters, remain hospitalized.

Wideman was released from the hospital Monday and booked into the Gwinnett County jail on charges of vehicular homicide, serious injury by vehicle, reckless driving and improper lane change.

Lindsey's father said he feels for
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Teen killed, 3 hurt driving to after-prom party
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Apr 30, 2012 at 6:10 AM

NORCROSS, Ga. -- An early morning crash Sunday took the life of a Meadowcreek High School student and injured three of her classmates.
Johlanda Lindsey,16, was on her way to an after-prom party with several friends when their car was struck by an oncoming vehicle that crossed the center...more line on Steve Reynolds Boulevard.
Lindsey was pronounced dead at the scene. Her father John Lindsey said she wasn't wearing a seat belt.
Three other teens were injured, one critically. Two people were thrown from the car during the crash.
Gwinnett County Police spokesman Sgt. J.L. Sligar said a preliminary investigation indicates alcohol did not play a role in the accident, but speed may have. Sligar said charges are pending against the driver who hit the teens, including reckless driving and first-degree vehicular homicide.
Family and friends gathered for a vigil at Meadowcreek High Sunday afternoon to honor the popular student and track star. Grief counselors will be at the
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