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Caught red-handed
A man was arrested and taken to jail after he was interrupted while breaking into vehicles on Little Neck Road. A 911 call was received by Metro Police at 10:10am on Jan. 5 about a man breaking into vehicles behind the Georgia Lottery building on Little Neck Road. As officers were responding to the scene,…
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City Council is same old song Editor, Regarding Linda Sickler’s “A crying shame,” about the last City Council meeting: Several things occurred during the meeting Dec. 18, 2008. The main thing is that the citizens of Savannah were witness to the same old song! A mayor who promised that after he got re-elected he would…
Tying off 2008’s loose ends
JUST BEFORE November 30, 2008, at least six Savannahians turned purple. I was not one of them. In the cyber literary world of National Novel Writing Month, “turning purple” is the jargon used to describe writers who succeed in writing at least 50,000 words of a novel during the thirty days of November. Known as…
School daze
A 21-YEAR-OLD city employee who tried to break up a scuffle between a group of teenaged girls was injured when one of the girls took a shotgun out of a car and fired it. Just before 8 p.m. on Dec. 30, the Leisure Services employee was working at a basketball league that plays at Shuman…
Unbelievable
Lead Story Freud de Melo, 73, operates a quirky tourist park in central Brazil that features stone models of Noah’s Ark and other sculptures, but he also notoriously suffers from taphephobia, the fear of being buried alive, and one of his sculptures is his own elaborate, fear-assuaging crypt. His vault houses a TV and fruit…
How do you launder money?
BEING THE fount of all knowledge, could you tell me the best way to launder money? The information may come in useful one day. —Ben Vicken, Asia I’m confident you’re not contemplating anything illegal, Ben. However, it’s helpful fto understand the workings of the criminal mind. So let’s start at the beginning. Suppose you have…
Remembering local concert promoter Steve Andrews
ANYONE WHO KNOWS ME KNOWS that I’m very bad with dates. So you’ll forgive me if I can’t pinpoint exactly when I first got the call that Steve Andrews had been diagnosed with what was characterized as a terminal case of cancer. A year and a half ago? Maybe two? Surely not three. I’m just…
The fire down below
IT WAS a quiet morning, with residents hurrying to work and tourists poking around. But the peace and quiet was shattered with a boom as a manhole cover was blown high into the air. Fire roared out of the manhole, and soon, more covers were blown out into the street. No, this particular incident didn’t…
Pianist Bradley Moore in concert
Bradley Moore AASU’s Dept. of Art, Music & Theater gets their yearly schedule of public events off to a rousing start with this solo guest recital by a highly acclaimed pianist whose current main gig is as assistant conductor, vocal coach and featured pianist with the Metropolitan Opera! To say this fellow’s resumé is impressive…
A stitch in time
THERE’S SOMETHING stitchy going on in Savannah, and fiber artists Rubi McGrory and Karin Soderholm are putting this trend into the limelight with “Stitch Spectacular.” This juried collection of contemporary hand-embroidered artwork will be on display Jan. 9-Feb. 3 at Dimensions Gallery, 412 Martin Luther King Blvd. The exhibition’s statement of purpose declares, “No longer…
Uh-uh, no way
Lead Story Aggressive questioning of a weak-willed suspect can produce an occasional false confession, but experts now believe six men in a single case, and four in another, confessed to group crimes they did not commit, even though some described their roles in vivid detail. Recent DNA evidence in a 1989 Beatrice, Neb., murder case…
“Just Do It”
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Diary of the planet
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