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Stories by Pete Combs
Former Woodruff Arts employee admits embezzling
An Ellenwood man pleads guilty to bilking one of Atlanta’s most visible arts institutions out of more than a million bucks. It turns out, it was an inside job. As director of facilities for the Woodruff Arts Center, Ralph Clark, 42, had the ability to approve vendor payments up to ...
Cobb school board looks for $86 million in cuts
Cobb school board members have until the end of June to come up with more than 86-million dollars in budget cuts. But when doing away with arts and music programs was suggested -- parents rebelled. “It would cause a lot of outcry,” said Board Member Kathleen Angelucci. Indeed, she and ...
Extending a hand for Boston in Atlanta
As the Boston Marathon bombing drama continues to play out in Massachusetts, a lot of folks here in Atlanta wonder how they might be able to help. Jacqueline Herd said she, like many Atlantans, finds it difficult to simply sit by and listen as events related to the marathon bombings ...
Increased entertainment brings increased security
A big entertainment weekend in Atlanta kicked off Thursday night with the Taylor Swift concert at Philips Arena, and with it comes concerns about security in the aftermath of the Boston bombings. Weekend events include the Dogwood Festival at Piedmont Park and the Sweetwater 420 Fest at Candler Park. Atlanta ...
Emory professor explains ricin threat
As authorities at the offices of lawmakers in Washington and around the country scramble to test letters and packages they suspect may contain the poison ricin, investigative tools that have been developed over the past decade may finally be coming into play. Sean Kaufman at the Emory School of Medicine ...
Boston bombing stirs Olympic Park nightmares
On a warm afternoon in Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park, children ran laughing through the jets of water shooting up from the fountain at the park's center and the terror at the finish line of the Boston Marathon seemed a horrible fiction in the hazy, golden sunshine. Except to those who ...
Extra security for Taste of Marietta after Boston blasts
The effects of Monday’s bomb attacks at the Boston Marathon are already rippling through the metro area’s law enforcement community. A week from Sunday, when more than 70 restaurants are expected to draw at least 100,000 people to the Marietta square for a day of food and music, security will ...
Former WSB Traffic Reporter in Boston Marathon at time of incident
Former WSB Traffic Reporter Dave Calhoun was running the Boston Marathon as a way to raise money for Charity - one of 363 Georgians registered to compete in the 26.3 mile challenge. He was well back in the pack, more than five miles from the finish, when the finish line ...
Murderer's death not what it appears
The death of a man wanted in the murder of two people in Union County last week was not what it first seemed. Just out of prison, 34-year old Anthony Payne was suspected in the murders of his father and stepmother in Blairsville. The bodies of Charles Payne, 59 and ...
'Brutal' woman now behind bars
A Cherokee County woman described by authorities as “vicious” and “brutal” is now behind bars in Florida. Karen King, 52, is accused of ordering five men - including her three sons - to beat her live-in boyfriend, Lyndon Smith, nearly to death. The men were then supposed to dispose of ...
Little Jane Doe identified
It began as a mystery last Tuesday. A little girl showed up on the doorstep of a couple in Anderson County, South Carolina. She was in a stroller… and was wearing a diaper. “Written on her diaper was a note that said, ‘Call DFAC,’” said Anderson County Sheriff’s Deputy Chad ...
Northside Atlanta parents work on plan to avoid future scandals
'Hello, this is Matthew.” The phone doesn’t stop ringing in Matthew Kirby’s office. Not only is he a business owner, he’s also chairman of the board at Northside Education, Inc., a group that hopes to build a new charter school called the Atlanta Classical Academy. While Kirby says starting this ...
Atlanta police ready for Final Four crowds
Let the games begin! That declaration from the World Congress Center… the Final Four gets underway Friday. “For the next few days, the world will be focused on Atlanta as much as it has, I think, since the Olympics in 1996,” said former Atlanta Mayor and UN Ambassador Andrew Young, ...
Explosion at Georgia Power's Plant Bowen
The explosion that rocked Georgia Power’s Plant Bowen in Bartow County Thursday afternoon blew a hole the size of a football field in the side of this massive power plant’s main building. “We believe at this point that it was something mechanical in nature,” said utility spokesman Mark Williams. But ...
Study: Georgia ranks 10th worst in gun crime
Georgia ranks 10th worst in the nation when it comes to a new study on gun crime. The Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank with close ties to the White House, has ranked the fifty states on gun violence in a study just out. “Georgia was the tenth ...
Baby shaker indictment
A Cobb County man faces trial on child cruelty and assault charges after being indicted by a grand jury. The victim in this case was an eight-week old baby. 30-year old Joseph Rucker McFall of Smyrna is accused of violently shaking and throwing the infant sometime between the end ...
Cobb County mom charged with murder and child cruelty
When police arrived at the home of 36-year old Ebony Berry in June 2011, they found her 16-year old daughter, Markea, unresponsive. The teenager was later pronounced dead. Markea, who weighed just 43-pounds, had died of starvation. It wasn’t the first time police had been called to the home on ...
One charged with arson at Marietta motel
Assistant Marietta Fire Chief Scott Tucker sticks his head in the door of Room 102 at the Sun Motel on Cobb Parkway, where an arson fire came close to reaching into the roof and threatening the entire motel – along with all those sleeping inside early Tuesday morning. “It ...
Final Four presents challenge for APD
After sending observers to each of the last two Final Fours in New Orleans and Houston, Atlanta Deputy Police Chief Ernest Finley said Monday, he’s got this. “It’s going to be a cop city, so to speak,” Finley told reporters at Atlanta Public Safety Headquaters. For police, all ...
APS educators start turning themselves in
The first two Atlanta Public School teachers plan to surrender at the Fulton County jail around daybreak, starting what is expected to be a long march of indicted educators. 35 former Atlanta public school employees have been ordered to give themselves up after the grand jury handed up its ...
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