East Point News

The inaugural ceremony for Earnestine Pittman, East Point's new mayor, will be held next Mondayevening.

Very good news to report from East Point, Georgia, an overwhelmingly black suburb adjacent to southwestern Atlanta.

East Point has become just the second city in Fulton County -- and one of a handful statewide -- to adopt protections for its gay and transgender employees.

A woman who was a top jailer at the Fulton County Jail spoke with CBS Atlanta News about Monday's shake-up there.

What happens to a public school student who gets caught carrying a pocketknife in his backpack, or who gets arrested for vandalism, uses drugs, starts fights or is chronically truant? Is this the end of the road for his education? Students at Crossroads North perform community service as part of their curriculum.

When in Georgia do as the Georgians do - why should we change for you. You are the transplant - get used to it.

Lawyers looking for records of a bankrupt funeral home business found the cremated remains of 96 people in the back of three storage units.

A lawyer says 96 boxes of cremated remains from a former funeral home have been found in an East Point storage unit.

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Where's Comet? Where's Cupid? Where's Donner and Blitzen ... ? Hyosub Shin, hshin@ajc.com Chick-fil-A employees posted signs on the windows to draw attention to the crime and customers also lined the streets with signs in hand to express their disappointment.

Some metro Atlanta Chick-fil-A customers are banning together to find Rudolph. The red-nosed reindeer was stolen from the store's elaborate Christmas display.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Friday continues its eight-part investigation "Property Tax Meltdown," an exclusive look at how metro Atlanta's property tax system has responded to the collapse in home values.

Even by metro Atlanta standards, it was a grisly weekend. The deadly chain of unrelated incidents began on Moreland Avenue Friday night -- where a liquor store clerk was killed by an armed robber -- and continued through Sunday when human remains were found in a southwest Atlanta manhole.

A 60-year-old man remains in critical condition after being beaten in the head, and a teenager has been charged for the attack.

These are personal and true stories as told by octogenarians, still living, who well remember that day.

A funeral mass for Mr. Elbert R. Hackney of East Point, Georgia, was held Saturday, Nov.

The East Point Historical Society is the new home of a project examining public housing in the south Fulton County city.

It's now up to the voters. Today, metro residents will elect new mayors in the cities of Atlanta, Clarkston, East Point and Roswell.

Perform a good deed while promoting your talent. This special event is a combined talent search and canned food and clothing drive to assist people in need in the metro Atlanta area.

Should "last call" for alcohol be 2:30 a.m. or 4 a.m. in the city of Atlanta? Enlarge photo Elissa Eubanks, Elissa Eubanks, eeubanks@ajc.com -Tom Houck, who was a talk show host on Newsradio WGST for 20 years and now owner of a public affairs and media company , voices his support of Councilman Kwanza Hall's proposal to study the prospect of ...