Posted: 9:18 a.m. Thursday, April 14, 2011
Obama Talks Budget; Barry Bonds Convicted; Kobe Fined $100K; Another Toddler Served Booze
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- It's the last day of Georgia's legislative session. An immigration bill similar to Arizona's contentious law is still hanging around, but there is strong opposition from agriculture and business groups making it an uphill battle--even with Republicans in control. Other bills include a measure to allow residents here to buy health insurance from other states, and one involving tax breaks for Delta Air Lines.
- President Barack Obama says the government has to balance the books. In a speech calling for bipartisan efforts to reduce the deficit, the president offered a long-term proposal to trim the nation's deficit by $4 trillion dollars over 12 years. Mr. Obama says that all areas of the budget are fair game, including ending the tax cuts for the wealthy.
- April 15 is tax day, right? Not this year. Thanks to a Washington, DC holiday, procrastinators get an extra couple of days to get those 1040s to Uncle Sam. April 16th's Emancipation Day, marking the end of slavery, falls on Saturday this year--so the holiday is being celebrated tomorrow--pushing the tax deadline to Monday, the 18th.
- Was financial stress behind the disappearance of a Bartow County mother of five? Court records show 30-year-old Wazinah Suleiman and her husband filed for bankruptcy last summer with personal debts of $1.2 million. Abed Suleiman says detectives have cleared him of any suspicion in his wife's disappearance. They've also found that she never made it to the Wal-Mart where she was supposedly headed to rent a movie Friday night.
- Federal and local agents stage a major drug raid in DeKalb County, swarming homes near Wesley Chapel and Panola. Eighteen people are under arrest, with 20 kilos of cocaine and $25,000 in cash seized. District Attorney Robert James says it was an international ring that trafficked drugs through two countries.
- Dozens of Cobb County families say they were blindsided after learning that a senior center, that helps patients with Alzheimer's and dementia, will soon be closing its doors. The Cobb County Commission announced the closure as part of its budget cuts.
- Barry Bonds is now a convicted felon. Baseball's all-time home run slugger was convicted by a San Francicso jury of obstruction of justice charges. But did he ever knowingly use steroids? After four days of deliberations, the jury deadlocked on three counts that he lied under oath--and one of the jurors reveals that most of them were voting to acquit.
- Kobe Bryant apologizes for yelling a gay slur at a ref after he got a tech called on him Tuesday in the Lakers game against the Spurs. He's been fined $100,000, and NBA Commissioner David Stern says the league won't tolerate that kind of language. Bryant says he didn't mean what he said in a moment of anger, and is concerned that those who look up to him make sure they don't take away a message of hate from his words.
- The state Board of Education eliminates high school graduation tests for this fall's freshman class, and the exams will be phased out for current students. Instead, students will have to pass eight core class tests--which will account for 20% of their final class grade.
- Gwinnett Police implicate a Snellville woman in a string of armored car robberies. Desiree Jones has a child with one of the first suspects charged, Stacey Dooley, and cops say she was in on the planning. Jones is still at large.
- Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says the problem of sleeping air traffic controllers cannot continue on his watch. He's displeased after hearing about another napping controller, this time at the Reno-Tahoe International Airport, who slept for about 16 minutes while a medical plane was landing. The pilot landed without incident, but LaHood says he's getting to the bottom of these incidents. The FAA's top official overseeing air traffic, Hank Krakowski, has now resigned.
- A Rockdale County man is charged with murder in the death of his girlfriend's 2-year-old son. 23-year-old James Sims of Conyers allegedly beat the toddler to death last week after Cayden Allen wet his pants.
- Another kid gets booze ata restaurant. A two-year-old at Olive Garden was served sangria instead of orange juice. He was given fluids at the hospital and will suffer no long-lasting ill effects. Days ago, Applebees gave a toddler a margarita in his sippy cup, prompting the restaurant to change its policy to serve children juice from single-serve containers from now on.
- The KISS 104.1 weather forecast: mostly sunny high around 78; lows tonight in the mid-50s.
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