Friday, April 5, 2013
More than 800 AAU youth basketball players are headed to Cobb County this weekend.
Atlanta may have the Final Four this weekend, but Smyrna and Kennesaw will have the Each One Teach One Basketball Hardwood Classic. The 3-day event, which begins today, will feature more than 800 AAU youth basketball players, spokeswoman Natalie Springfield said. It is hosted by one of the top AAU organizations, Each One Teach One Basketball. The Battle at the Four-Hardwood Classic is part of the five-state Southeastern Cup Series, the largest youth basketball series in the region. Regular games will be played today and Saturday at the Smyrna Community Center and Kennesaw State University University Convocation Center. The championship games will be played Sunday at Kennesaw State. The parents of Jeremy Nelson, the 12-year-old Gwinnett …
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Don Ameche Thomas turned himself in Monday, days after the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Kennesaw State Police Department arrested the university's former executive director of environmental health and safety at his Mableton home.
Two more suspects accused of conspiring to steal nearly $1-million from Kennesaw State University surrendered this week to Cobb authorities, and one of them is from Mableton. Don Ameche Thomas turned himself in Monday at the Cobb County Adult Detention Center, where he was booked on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the state, according to online jail records. Ramon Langford Morgan of Detroit surrendered on Tuesday, records show. All but two of the six suspects in the alleged crime ring accused of defrauding the state of nearly $1-million have been booked into the Cobb County Jail. Lionel Montel Elder of Atlanta turned himself in on Friday, said Nancy Bodiford, the spokeswoman for the Cobb County Sheriff's Office. Elder's surrender came …
Lionel Montel Elder of Atlanta turned himself in at the Cobb County Adult Detention Center, where he was booked on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the state.
After the arrest of Mableton's Gerald Donaldson, the second of six suspects accused of stealing nearly $1-million from Kennesaw State University surrendered Friday night to Cobb authorities. Lionel Montel Elder of Atlanta turned himself in at the Cobb County Adult Detention Center, where he was booked on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the state, said Nancy Bodiford, the spokeswoman for the Cobb County Sheriff's Office. Elder's surrender came just one day after the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Kennesaw State Police Department arrested Gerald Donaldson, the university's former executive director of environmental health and safety, at his Mableton home. Between June 1, 2002 and July 1, 2012, the men allegedly arranged payments …
Monday, April 1, 2013
The fraud extended from Donaldson's own department at Kennesaw State to private organizations and other individuals outside of the university system.
Kennesaw State University's former executive director of environmental health and safety was arrested Thursday in connection with a crime ring that allegedly defrauded the state of nearly $1-million. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Kennesaw State Police Department arrested Gerald Donaldson of Mableton on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the state, according to a statement on the university's website. Donaldson and five others are accused of creating “shell companies” to conduct the fraud, which allegedly extended from Donaldson's own department at Kennesaw State to private organizations and other individuals outside of the university system. The months-long investigation started when Kennesaw State employees reported to …
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Tour Shoupade Park, participate in a 5K around Marietta Square, join local authors for coffee and conversation, head to North Cobb High School for a community-wide electronics recycling day and more.
Tour Shoupade Park - 2013 Phoenix Flies When: Saturday, March 23, Sunday, March 24. Where: Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Paces Mill, 3444 Cobb Pkwy SE, Atlanta, GA What: The River Line Historic Area’s Roberta Cook along with Mike Shaffer of the Kennesaw State University Civil War Center, will host tours of Shoupade Park. Reservations are required due to limited parking. Shoupade Park is a historic preservation site featuring two of the nine remaining “Shoupades” designed by Confederate Brigadier General Francis Asbury Shoup during the Civil War. Additional info can be found at the Atlanta Preservation Center’s website: atlantapreservationcenter.com/PF_Decennial. Marietta Mentor 5K Run When: Saturday, March 23: 5K starts at …
Thursday, February 14, 2013
"We're here to stay, we're here to play," Owls athletic director Vaughn Williams said at Thursday's official festivities.
After offering the obligatory "Are you ready for some football?" exhortation, Kennesaw State University President Daniel Papp posed another question during a celebratory Thursday afternoon, and he had no intention of making it a rhetorical one. "Why are we adding football?" he asked during the official launch of the school's varsity football program. "We are a major university in the South." "And we are on the way to becoming a major national university as well." With that, one of many choruses of cheers rang out from several hundred revelers at the KSU Convocation Center. Not only is Kennesaw State getting a football program, but it wants to use that high-profile sport to expose the school's academic and extracurricular offerings far …
Friday, March 23, 2012
STEM Inventors Academy is still a go as South Cobb's next startup charter despite a few obstacles in the last few months.
STEM Inventors Academy may have hit a few bumps in the road, but the organizers for this South Cobb startup charter are moving forward. Rep. Alisha Morgan (D-Austell), one of the planned charter’s organizers, said the group plans to create a nonprofit organization, which would be the leading partner of the school. The details for the nonprofit organization have not been solidified, Morgan said. SIM organizers plan to reapply for the Innovation Fund grant, which it was rewarded in January. The $50,000 in funds, which come from the state’s Race to the Top funds, were returned when the Cobb County School District decided against being the school’s leading partner. The school was planned for a fall 2013 opening, but Morgan said the school …
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Cobb County citizens will get to vote on whether to allow package sales of alcohol on Sundays.
The Cobb County Board of Commissioners is meeting at 9 a.m. in the boardroom at 100 Cherokee St. off Marietta Square. The top item on the agenda is a proposal to let Cobb County citizens vote in March on whether to allow package alcohol sales on Sundays. We're using CoverItLive to, well, cover it live; jump in and join the conversation. Commission Chairman Tim Lee presented a measure to the board to approve a resolution on Sunday sales, and no one else commented before the board voted unanimously in favor, 4-0. Lee's comments indicated that he sounded out his fellow commissioners about the proposal before bringing it before the public and knew they would agree. By holding the Sunday-sales vote at the same time as the presidential primary, …
Charles Schwable
4:31 am on Thursday, April 4, 2013
Greed as the other official arrested in the conspiracy, it makes me sick how people chase that all mighty dollar! more ›