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Two days before Christmas, Around Town presents the holiday wish lists from the people who made news in 2020. Ranging from the profound to the peculiar, here’s what several community participants are hoping to see in their stockings come Friday morning. --- I’ll bet you can guess mine. “An angel expressed my wish a long time ago, ‘Peace on earth, good will toward all.’” — The Rev. Nelson Price, pastor emeritus of Roswell Street Baptist Church in Marietta and M...

Cobb will spend what remains of its federal pandemic aid to top up food and rental assistance programs. The Board of Commissioners approved the expenditure in a 4-1 vote Tuesday, with west Cobb Commissioner Keli Gambrill opposed. The money comes from the CARES Act, which Congress passed in March. The act was among the largest stimulus bills in the country’s history and provided — among many other things — money local governments could use before Dec. 30 to address the fallout fro...

But Richard Jewell and Watson Bryant formed a bond, one that Jewell would rely on heavily when thrust upon the global stage as the suspect in the 1996 Olympics bombing. Watson Bryant, left, poses with Hollywood mogul Clint Eastwood and Bobi Jewell, mother of Richard Jewell, who was falsely accused of setting off a bomb in Centennial Park during the 1996 Olympics.  Bryant told the story of the improbable alliance as guest speaker of the Kiwanis Club of Marietta last week. He also shared Hol...

Possible. when that happens, in the end, the vast majority of voters return to their party. they do it sooner or later. >> larry, i got to get to karen handel. she is down there and she is about to give her victory speech. thank you, larry. >> i have to start first of all by saying thank you. there are literally hundreds of people to thank, and scores of elected officials and gop leaders who put their confidence in me right from the beginning and ill probably miss a few, but there were several w...

But lets not forget our equally great vice president mike pence. and i think its appropriate to take a minute to acknowledge a new friend that i was able to make over the course of that campaign, this campaign. and that was majority whip steve scalise. right up till that tragic day on ballfield, steve would drop me a text message every single week. just to make sure i was doing okay and hanging tough. i think he even called me the terminator in one of them. wasnt sure about that one, steve, but ...

well. >> reporter: rice has never run for office, but shes no stranger to presidential politics. by george w. bushs side during his campaigns. shes an intellectual with a good personal story. and a concert pianist. the former secretary of state and national security advisor would bring some needed foreign policy chops to romneys ticket, which brings us to the condi cons. she was a central bush administration player making the case for the iraq war, warning about saddam husseins weapons...

angeles where a possible pipe bomb was found at manual arts high school in los angeles. its home to about 2,000 students and staff. they all had to be evacuated to an athletic field while a bomb squad is inside working to remove the item. theres year-roung classes. were going to keep our eye on that developing situation while the bomb squad is inside trying to figure out exactly whats going on there in southern los angeles. president obama today held a conference call with members of h...