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Largest gang bust in Alpharetta history Deadly SUR-13 gang has 10 members arrested, deported By: Rosemary Taylor 7/14/2005 An investigation by the Alpharetta Police Crime Suppression Unit into street gangs using Alpharetta as a home base for their activities in Metro Atlanta led federal agents June 30 to an Alpharetta home only half a mile from City Hall. There amidst Surento 13 (SUR-13) gang graffiti and paraphernalia agents from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI’s "Safe Street" Gang Task Force, assisted by Alpharetta Police, arrested 10 members of the SUR-13 street gang on illegal immigration charges. Arrested were...

'Rambos in the Restaurant' Bill (WSB Radio) -- A Marietta state representative is proposing legislation that would allow anyone with a concealed weapons permit to take a handgun inside most Georgia restaurants. Supporters say it embraces constitutional freedoms. Critics call it the "Rambos in the restaurant" bill. Rep. Bobby Franklin has introduced similar proposals in the past. "What if someone comes to Atlanta to stay at the Ritz-Carlton, and they have to walk a couple of blocks to a restaurant?" Franklin told the Atlanta Journal Constitution. "They'd like to be able to carry that gun in downtown Atlanta at night....

Hometown T-Shirt Causes Problems for Gwinnett Student (WSB Radio) How can a t-shirt from his hometown get a high school student in trouble? When the shirt is from Hempstead. A student at Grayson High School, in Gwinnett County, was stopped by a school administrator when he was spotted wearing the shirt that read "Hempstead, NY 516), a reference to the Long Island town, and its area code. But, the administrator only saw the first four letters of the town's name, and believed it to be a drug reference. "It was ridiculous," says Caron Jones, mother of Terrell Jones. "They were...

© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Iraq's new interim constitution sounds many of the same themes as the U.S. Constitution in guaranteeing freedom of the people – with one stark difference: There is no right to keep and bear arms in the new charter. As Secretary of State Colin Powell hailed Monday's signing of the document, which lays out the time line for Iraqi self-government, he encouraged his audience to read the new constitution. "Read this administrative law, and read what the Governing Council has written for the people of Iraq," he said in a speech commemorating International Women's Day Monday. "Read what...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, February 11, 2004 Miller on Super Bowl Half-Time Show: ‘Stink Will Linger in the Nostrils of America’ WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Zell Miller (D-GA) today released the following statement regarding the Super Bowl half-time show: “I don’t know how many of you have ever run over a skunk with your car. I have many times and I can tell you, the stink stays around for a long time. You can take the car through the wash and it’s still there. So the scent of this Super Bowl halftime show will long linger in the nostrils of...

On 3 May, F-100s from the 120th Tactical Fighter Squadron (Colorado) arrived at Phan Rang Air Base. By 1 June, all of the l20th's pilots were flying combat missions. In the meantime, the 174th (Iowa), 188th (New Mexico), and the 136th (New York) had all deployed to Vietnam with their F-100s. In addition, 85 percent of the 355th Tactical Fighter Squadron -- on paper a regular Air Force unit -- were Air Guardsmen. The Air Guard units were quickly and effectively integrated into Air Force combat operations in Southeast Asia (SEA). Prior to their return home in April 1969, they...

House Bill 1380 By: Representative Mobley of the 58th A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT To amend Article 4 of Chapter 11 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to dangerous instrumentalities and practices, so as to provide a short title; to provide for findings and a statement of purpose; to provide for definitions; to prohibit the manufacture, possession, purchase, sale, or transfer of assault weapons and assault weapon conversion kits; to prohibit the possession of certain weapons under certain circumstances; to provide for exceptions; to provide for background checks; to provide for registration of...

Student expelled over diary By MIA TAYLOR The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Roswell High freshman Rachel Boim, 14, was expelled Wednesday. A Roswell High School freshman has been expelled for the remainder of the year for writing a fictional tale in her private journal about a student who dreams that she kills a teacher. Rachel Boim, 14, who moved here from suburban Denver, about 20 minutes from Columbine High School, was expelled after a closed, three-hour hearing conducted Wednesday by a Fulton County school system official. School system spokeswoman Susan Hale said the expulsion was for "inappropriate writings that describe the threat...

I No Longer Understand My Country by Jeff Snyder On October 30, Eliane Yvonne Marcele Aguillaume, 56, of Paris, was arrested in the Evansville, Indiana, Regional Airport on charges of disorderly conduct at an airport, public indecency and resisting law enforcement after she stripped to the waist in response to a security screener’s attempt to search her with a wand. Mme. Aguillaume had visited southwest Indiana to attend her nephew’s wedding, and was on her way home. According to the AP news report of this incident: "During a routine security screening, authorities say Aguillaume kept reaching inside her sweater forcing...

<p>HOUSTON, Texas (CNN) --An airport screener who is a registered sex offender faces life in prison after a weekend rampage in which he fired shots throughout his apartment complex and then set fire to one of the buildings, officials said.</p>

MARIETTA #151; Marietta police have charged a 17-year-old Marietta High School student with rape 03/12/02 By Chris Joyner Marietta Daily Journal Staff Writer MARIETTA #151; Marietta police have charged a 17-year-old Marietta High School student with rape following an alleged attack on a 16-year-old girl at the high school last week. Michael Dawson, a junior at the high school, is being held without bond at the Cobb County Adult Detention Center for allegedly raping the girl in a boys bathroom at about 11:50 a.m. Thursday. According to police, the girl did not tell anyone at school about the alleged rape...

I am just wondering if someone is accumulating a history of Airport Security abuses. I am hearing about them, lots of them, anecdotally from random sources.

<p>It is commonplace to assume that toppling the Taliban will free Afghan women. But in an unstable country where soldiers celebrate conquest by raping — and where there is currently no guarantee that whatever form of government eventually assumes control will not be equally oppressive toward females — women have to protect themselves to remain free.</p>

MORE ZERO TOLERANCE STUPIDITY OK, stand by for another story of supreme government idiocy .. government school idiocy. And this one, like so many others, comes from none other than the Gwinnett County, Georgia school system. We go to the Five Forks Middle School. Amanda Williams is having her lunch. Later she will be suspended from school for NINE days for violating the schools zero-tolerance policy on drinking alcohol. So, did Amanda sneak a shooter into school in her Brittany Spears lunchbox? Did she pilfer a beer out to of the fridge in the teacher’s lounge? Was she chugging Nyquil? ...

Throughout the Clinton years the storm of bio-terrorism was gathering, yet the CDC is best remembered for its attacks on cholesterol and tobacco use. Diet and tobacco are things which, as individuals, we can control. But they are also high profile political issues for the Democratic Party. The defense against bio-terrorism, however, goes to the issue of “common defense,” an area in which we must trust the government. Much has been written about how Clinton “dismantled” our defense capabilities by undermining the military. Building on initiatives started during the Carter Administration, he also “dismantled” our bio-defense capability by diverting the ...