Lines eased somewhat Tuesday in Atlanta, the largest city hit by a hurricane-induced gas shortage in the southeast, as Georgia's governor waited for a White House answer to his request to release more crude oil.
Gas shortages are afflicting drivers across the Southeast. Some of the problems were caused by Hurricane Ike affecting oil production and refining along the Gulf Coast, but empty gas pumps also are being blamed on the consumers themselves.
Mohammed Hussain got 3,000 gallons of gas delivered to his Chevron station in suburban Atlanta on Saturday. By Sunday morning, all of the gas, priced at $4.39 per gallon for regular unleaded, was gone.
An electronic communication failure Tuesday at a Federal Aviation Administration facility in Georgia that processes flight plans for the eastern half of the U.S. was causing hundreds of flight delays around the country
Scientists hope to add one more ability to the tongue and turn it into a computer control pad
Getting enough rest should be as simple as just shutting your eyes.
A Delta Air Lines flight en route to Peru was forced to return to Atlanta, Georgia, after attendants heard a loud "popping sound," a Delta spokesman said.
When Atlanta police officers Bryan Ernest and Bernatt Collins get a burglary call, they know that the house they walk into will probably be stripped, right down to the materials inside the walls.
Dear FSB: Can I copyright bread? My wife makes a special kind of bread that's not available in grocery stores. We don't have our own baking facilities and would like to work with a local baker on a contract basis. So the issue is, how can we prevent the baker from stealing and using our recipe?
Food is a huge part of any destination for me, and my home base -- Atlanta, Georgia -- is no exception.
Lines eased somewhat Tuesday in Atlanta, the largest city hit by a hurricane-induced gas shortage in the southeast, as Georgia's governor waited for a White House answer to his request to release more crude oil.
Gas shortages are afflicting drivers across the Southeast. Some of the problems were caused by Hurricane Ike affecting oil production and refining along the Gulf Coast, but empty gas pumps also are being blamed on the consumers themselves.
Mohammed Hussain got 3,000 gallons of gas delivered to his Chevron station in suburban Atlanta on Saturday. By Sunday morning, all of the gas, priced at $4.39 per gallon for regular unleaded, was gone.
An electronic communication failure Tuesday at a Federal Aviation Administration facility in Georgia that processes flight plans for the eastern half of the U.S. was causing hundreds of flight delays around the country
Scientists hope to add one more ability to the tongue and turn it into a computer control pad
Getting enough rest should be as simple as just shutting your eyes.
A Delta Air Lines flight en route to Peru was forced to return to Atlanta, Georgia, after attendants heard a loud "popping sound," a Delta spokesman said.
When Atlanta police officers Bryan Ernest and Bernatt Collins get a burglary call, they know that the house they walk into will probably be stripped, right down to the materials inside the walls.
Dear FSB: Can I copyright bread? My wife makes a special kind of bread that's not available in grocery stores. We don't have our own baking facilities and would like to work with a local baker on a contract basis. So the issue is, how can we prevent the baker from stealing and using our recipe?
Food is a huge part of any destination for me, and my home base -- Atlanta, Georgia -- is no exception.
Atlanta's East Lake community was a rough place to grow up in 1989, when murder, gangs, poverty, teen pregnancy and drug problems were common.
Hispanic workers die at higher rates than other laborers, with 1 in 3 of these deaths occurring in the construction industry
A combo platter of a column, with How I Spent My Weekend in Atlanta, followed by what I loved, and what I scratched my head about after the 2008 draft.
Delta Air Lines, the nation's third-largest carrier, says its loss widened in the first quarter to a whopping $6.39 billion due to soaring fuel prices and the steep decline in the company's market value
Nearly 300 people were arrested Wednesday in immigration and identity theft raids at Pilgrim's Pride poultry plants in five states
Authorities have identified a man whose body was found under rubble more than a week after a tornado swept through downtown Atlanta.
Atlanta was scrambling back to normalcy Monday, but city officials warned it could take time to clear the devastation left by a tornado that swept through the city's downtown Friday evening.
Waves of severe thunderstorms streaked through downtown Atlanta on Saturday, hours after a tornado left a trail of destruction through the heart of the city.
A possible tornado swept through downtown Atlanta on Friday night, disrupting a college basketball game and damaging the building that houses CNN.
The boards of directors of Delta Air Lines Inc. and Northwest Airlines Corp. were expected to vote on a combination provided their pilot unions can reach their own deal
BIGGEST CLIMB: Dallas (7 to 3), Montreal (10 to 6), NYR (22 to 18), Atlanta (25 to 21) BIGGEST FALL: Columbus (19 to 25)
ATLANTA -- Bravo to the NHL for giving a little life to its YoungStars game. Last year, as I wrote from Dallas the game was aggressively boring. Seriously. Worse than early Conan. The teams played 10-minute periods of 4-on-4, a too-organized farce that failed in part because of its proximity to being a real game.
Usher's father, Usher Raymond III, passed away at an Atlanta hospital on Friday, the R&B star's rep confirms to PEOPLE.
Another suspect wanted in connection with the shooting deaths of two suburban Atlanta police officers this week was arrested Friday, the U.S. Marshals Service said.
Police have made a second arrest in the fatal shootings of two off-duty DeKalb County police officers near Atlanta, a police spokeswoman said Thursday.
Thanks to a rainy holiday season, the Atlanta area stayed just above its historical low-water mark for annual rainfall, the National Weather Service reported.
BIGGEST CLIMB: Atlanta (28 to 21) BIGGEST FALL: S.J. (3 to 9), Boston (5 to 11), Philadelphia (11 to 17)
If we're using fluorescent bulbs and solar panels, but taking 14 car trips a day, how eco-friendly is our lifestyle, really?
What William Goldman once said about Hollywood -- "Nobody knows anything" -- can easily describe the decisions made by children's book publishers.
It was an image that got the nation talking: Two giggling young women in oversized sunglasses robbing a bank. The "Barbie Bandits" helped their hometown earn the dubious distinction as the nation's bank robbery capital.
A bottle of perfume, a box of candy or a set of pajamas are quick, easy gifts to buy and wrap during the holidays. This year, instead of giving something predictable, why not give the gift of health? The selections are endless, and prices range from expensive to downright cheap. Just imagine the reaction you'll get when you use your imagination.
Some major US airports are offering flu shots to travelers as they pass through security checkpoints
Federal health officials are revising their estimate of how many people are infected by HIV each year, and advocacy groups say the number could rise by 35 percent or more
Usher and his wife, Tameka, welcomed a baby boy on Monday night, his rep has confirmed.
The state of Georgia, stricken by months of drought, confirmed Friday that it will sue the Army Corps of Engineers.
Two-hundred thousand visitors later, it's a year since Louvre Atlanta opened at the High Museum of Art.
Drivers waste nearly an entire work week each year sitting in traffic on the way to and from their jobs, according to a national study
Drivers waste nearly an entire work week each year sitting in traffic on the way to and from their jobs, according to a national study released Tuesday.
Temperatures reached record highs across much of the Southeast on Thursday, while rainy weather cooled off many of the mid-Atlantic states.
A white board at the International Rescue Committee in Atlanta shows the origins of the hundreds of refugees the agency has placed in Georgia -- Vietnam, Burma, Iran. Soon, it will add another country, Iraq.
It wasn't what Nick Lawrimore was casting for when he went to his "secret fishing spot" on the Chattahoochee River in Atlanta, Georgia, but experts say he made a rare find anyway.
A man with a dangerous form of tuberculosis had health officials around the world scrambling Wednesday to find about 80 passengers who sat within five rows of him on two trans-Atlantic flights
Not all hotshot money managers are based on Wall Street and its suburban outposts. Take Bowen Hanes & Co., for example. Headquartered in Atlanta, far from the ticker tape of the NYSE, it has establ...
At the Atlanta Home Show, a three-room installation showed off trendy new building supplies, like ceramic tile that mimics weathered wood, high-tech ovens and home security systems. But the installation, called "Safe Home for Life," wasn't trying to sell new plumbing or expensive cabinets.
An armed man was shot Thursday at around 4 p.m. in Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park, a spokesperson for the Georgia World Congress Center said.
Atlanta has been the fastest growing metropolitan area in the nation since 2000, with a gain of nearly 900,000 residents to 5.1 million.
Deadly shootings recently at Atlanta's CNN Center and the University of Washington's Seattle campus underscore how attackers may target victims who work in public places.
Note: All statistics are through Sunday.
The first large change-out of artworks in the three-year Louvre Atlanta cycle of exhibitions at the High Museum trades charcoal drawings for cabinetry and sketches for silver.
Note: All statistics are through Sunday.
When one of Atlanta's most notorious criminals held journalist Don O'Briant at gunpoint, the incident changed his life.
A suspected tornado damaged 20 homes and knocked down trees south of Atlanta on Sunday, but no one was hurt by the storm, local officials said.
An informant cited in a search warrant as having purchased narcotics at an elderly Atlanta woman's house denies buying drugs there, authorities say.
The delegation assembled at the High Museum of Art awaits you in regal rows, beautifully ordered, devastatingly confident, graciously imperious. They watch through glass, unsmiling, as you approach. Serene. Accomplished. French.
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See: If you fancy some offbeat Atlanta history, head to Oakland Cemetery. Amongst the leafy oak trees, camellias and magnolias is buried all of Atlanta, from princes to paupers. Look out for ornate carved monuments of the great and the good, contrasted with the unmarked indigents' graves in Potter's Field.
Set against the foothills of the Appalachians above the Chattahoochee River, Atlanta watches over the fertile red clay of Georgia.
Joanne Smith wants to make flying Delta swank again. In 2003 she helped launch mod offspring Song, known for lime-green planes and Kate Spade - attired flight attendants. But the budget service flo...
Ralph and Norton, meet Alice and Trixie.
The bird's-eye view of metro Atlanta tells you what you need to know about local real estate: Houses are big and there's plenty of raw land.
The cherry blossoms are out, and lush green hills are beckoning from coast to coast. So now's the time to stop hibernating in musty hotel gyms and get outside. Whether your next business trip takes...
While pets across America cuddle in their owners' laps, sleep at the foot of a bed or fetch a ball in the backyard, countless others have no such comforts.
The Georgia Aquarium opened in November to great fanfare and high expectations -- with organizers predicting it would draw more than 2 million visitors the first year and pump millions of dollars into the Atlanta economy.
Federal regulators are searching for the assets of an Atlanta hedge-fund firm that allegedly defrauded several current and former professional football players along with its other clients, according to a published report.
The Georgia Aquarium points to the Atlanta skyline like the prow of a giant ship -- an ark filled with more than 100,000 exotic creatures.
Chapter 11* Bookstores learned there's a lot to a name this weekend.
The Drug Enforcement Administration said Thursday it has wrapped up an operation aimed at shutting down an alleged Atlanta-based hub of a major Mexican drug cartel.
News that two pipelines supplying the Southeast with gasoline were knocked out by Hurricane Katrina sparked runs on gas and a sharp spike in prices Wednesday in the Atlanta area.
Ashley Smith, who was held hostage after the Atlanta courthouse killings in March, has signed a book deal with HarperCollins Publishers, the company said Wednesday.
Did you know the human body produces enough mucus each day to fill a quart-size mayonnaise jar? Yuck!
Police on Saturday arrested a suspect in a Florida slaying who had spent 56 hours atop a crane high above an Atlanta construction site.
Sensory experiences on the subway aren't necessarily a good thing. But riders in Atlanta will soon have a welcome diversion: television. This summer the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority...
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In May, CNN joins the FORTUNE Global Forum in Beijing for a week of special programming from China.
The shooting spree that started in an Atlanta courtroom, killing a judge and two others on Friday, occurred despite security measures common in courtrooms across Georgia and the United States, according to lawyers familiar with the incident.
A Fulton County Superior Court judge was killed when a defendant grabbed a gun from a deputy sheriff and opened fire in an Atlanta courtroom Friday, officials said. A court reporter and deputy also were killed, and another deputy was injured.
Friday's deadly courtroom shooting shut down parts of one of the busiest areas of downtown Atlanta, near state and city government offices, tourist attractions and the site of a major college basketball tournament.
Atlanta police said late Friday night they have found the car believed stolen by Brian Nichols, the suspect accused of gunning down a popular judge, his court reporter and a deputy that morning.
Federal drug agents in suburban Atlanta, Georgia, have made what authorities call the largest seizure of methamphetamine in the eastern United States.
Vermont Butter & Cheese Cultured Butter, $19 a pound To support herself while studying in France, Allison Hooper, 45, milked goats on local dairies. She returned to her native New England and a dec...
Delta Air Lines said Wednesday it will cut 6,000 to 7,000 jobs over the next 18 months as part of a "transformation plan" to keep the struggling carrier from declaring bankruptcy.
I'm not the typical minority," says Jose de Lasa in a thick Caribbean accent. De Lasa thinks that because he was born and raised in a privileged family in Cuba that came to Miami when he was 20 yea...
Chlorine-laced clouds of smoke billowed over Interstate 20 in suburban Atlanta, Georgia, as a warehouse storing pool chemicals burned into Tuesday afternoon, officials said.
A glitch in a Delta Air Lines computer system grounded flights out of Atlanta on Saturday afternoon because data needed for takeoffs was not available, an FAA spokeswoman said.
In an effort to get people excited about wallpaper--sales have been flat for years--Rexam Image Products, a manufacturer, is aggressively pushing digital printers to pursue the idea of custom-makin...
We'll admit it: We at FORTUNE had a pretty serious case of dot-com fever. When the boom was at its height, we wrote about Internet companies in rapt detail. Internet mania amazed us. So many people...
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How would you like to run your own airline? Yes, you, beleaguered business traveler, squeezed into a middle seat with carry-on bags under your feet and your seatmates' elbows poking you from both s...
Cracking a crustacean can challenge even the nimblest diner--few meals require such intensive surgery. But few meals are as rewarding: Both sweet and sour, with a touch of brine, lobsters are the k...
In late March the average retail price for a gallon of gasoline fell to around a dollar--a record low, adjusted for inflation. "We've nearly had traffic accidents as people braked to check our sign...
Every Saturday from March through May, managers, bankers, and lawyers from Seattle to Atlanta shed their ties and don their cleats to rumble in one of the world's roughest games--rugby. Started thi...
You don't want to eat them in airports, but if you're a meat eater, you probably crave a hot dog once in a while. The best come from Vienna Beef in Chicago. "A good hot dog should have a nice snap ...
Hungry and alone? Whatever you do, don't believe everything you see in the movies. In the 1984 film The Lonely Guy, Steve Martin's forlorn protagonist picks a busy restaurant. "Are you alone?" asks...
That brilliant flame streaking across the horizon during the first half of the year wasn't the Olympic torch on its 15,000-mile, 42-state trek to Atlanta: It was the mutual fund fireball. Performan...
While world-class athletes view the 1996 Summer Olympics as a chance to beat the best competition, the credit-card industry has pinned a different sort of hope on the Games. This July in Atlanta, V...
THE BIGGEST BRUISERS in sports manufacturing battled each other (and a backfield of peewee-size competitors) at last month's Super Show in Atlanta--the biggest sporting goods show in the world and ...
WHILE THE WORLD'S BEST ATHLETES VIE FOR HONors in Atlanta's arenas this summer, some of the stiffest competition will be on the sidelines. The sport? Olympic pin collecting. "The parking lots at th...
Got georgia on your mind? coming up short of the $50,000 needed for so-called patron status on prime digs and gold-medal tickets for the first Summer Games on U.S. soil in 11 years? Not to worry, s...
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