East Point News

Atlanta Medical Center and financially ailing South Fulton Medical Center announced Wednesday that they will seek state permission to consolidate the two hospitals.

Five companies that lost out on contracts to run restaurants and bars at the Atlanta airport filed formal protests this week, trying to stop the deals and convince city officials that they deserve to win.

In this Jan. 17, 2012 photo, contemporary Christian recording artist Jamie Grace poses for a portrait in East Point, Ga.

East Point homeowner Daniel Morgan views his house on Lyle Avenue as an oasis, even though it was surrounded by three abandoned houses.

Woodstock City Manager Jeff Moon said Friday that he demanded the resignation of Chief Financial Officer Henry Bucci because two outside annual audits in a row had found that the city Finance Department had kept poor records.

Martin-Brower, the largest distributor for McDonald's restaurants, will invest $30 million to set up operations in a 220,000 square-foot build-to-suit refrigerated distribution center in East Point, GA in the fall of 2012 and will employ nearly 300 workers.

The DeKalb County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday unanimously approved a zoning use change of a 52.54-acre tract at 1415 Constitution Road that paves the way for an automobile recycling firm to establish operations there.

The Georgia Supreme Court has upheld convictions against a East Point car dealer who shot and killed two of his employees after they had asked for raises.

East Point Public Works in conjunction with the city's Capital Improvements Program has developed an updated model and floodplain mapping presentation prepared for city residents in regard to the city's four main watersheds.

Thirty-five years ago, the Chandlery, an upscale home goods store, opened in Roswell's historic district.

The mother of a South Carolina toddler missing since Thanksgiving was arrested in Georgia and accused of prostitution shortly before her son disappeared, according to police records.