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But the thrill was short-lived. Jo got in and was able to enter her information, but when she clicked to book the appointment, she found herself bounced back to the digital waiting room, where her wait time jumped from 40 minutes to 656 minutes and everywhere in between.   "I did that for two hours," said Jo. Neither she nor her husband, both 67 and residents of Holden, were able to book appointments.  Thursday marked the rollout of the states new digital waiting room, which put residents ...

Anti-Semitic abuse recorded by a Jewish community charity fell last year but the number of incidents remained its third highest annual total.

Here is what readers of the Oxford Mail had to say about the new travel restrictions: Tony Williams: "Good lockdown is lockdown. They will soon be unhappy if their family get Covid-19 and get really bad with it. It needs to be done and should have done this from day one." Philip Babu Raj: "Politicians all over the world are weird what was suppose to be done when the pandemic started suddenly they woke up from slumber sleep with slapping with rules and regulations and fines. Sometimes I wo...

Georgia attorney general denies request for special prosecutor in high-profile police cases By FOX 5 Atlanta Digital Team Published  ATLANTA - Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr has denied a request by Fulton County District Attorney Fanni Willis to appoint special prosecutors in two high-profile cases against Atlanta police officers for excessive force. Those cases involve two Atlanta police officers charged in connection to the death of Rayshard Brooks and six Atlanta police officers arre...

The Atlanta Police Department responds to reversal of officers termination By FOX 5 Atlanta Digital Team Published  Investigator Mark Gardner and Inv. Ivory Streeter. ATLANTA - The Atlanta Police Department is responding to the Atlanta Civil Service Board’s decision to reverse the terminations of two officers who were fired in May for the arrest of two college students in Downtown Atlanta for violating a citywide curfew. Ivory Streeter and Mark Gardner were fired the day after they were se...

Loading the player... A pair of Atlanta police officers who were filmed tasering two college students during Black Lives Matter protests in the city were reinstated this week.  Spelman College junior Taniyah Pilgrim and Messiah Young, a senior at Morehouse College, were tased after police officials pulled them from a car in downtown Atlanta during a May 31 protest. Video footage of the incident quickly went viral at a time when criticism of police treatment of African Americans was heightene...

Atlantas Civil Service Board overturned the dismissals of Ivory Streeter and Mark Gardner on Monday The board said the city didnt follow its own personnel procedures in the firings Both Streeter and Gardner are still facing charges of aggravated assault for the May 30 altercation The officers confronted Messiah Young and Taniyah Pilgrim as they were stuck in traffic after a curfew declared by the mayor during George Floyd protests Police body camera footage showed the officers shouting at the c...

Atlanta Police Officers Reinstated After Being Fired For Tasing Incident A ruling determined the city was in the wrong for terminating them without giving them a chance to respond to allegations. Published February 2nd Written by Madison J. Gray Two Atlanta Police officers who lost their jobs last year when they used tasers on two Black college students during the confusion of demonstrations against police violence were reinstated Monday (Feb. 1) on grounds that the city did not fo...

ATLANTA -- Two Atlanta police officers who were fired for excessive force last summer have had their terminations reversed, according to attorney, Lance LoRusso. Mark Gardner and Ivory Streeter were fired for pulling two college students from a car and deploying a Taser on them during protests. As a

Attorney: College student pulled from car stunned by Atlanta officers reinstatement By FOX 5 Digital Team Published  Investigator Mark Gardner and Inv. Ivory Streeter. ATLANTA - The attorney of one of two Atlanta college students pulled from a car in downtown Atlanta during protests over the death of Georgia Floyd says they were "stunned and saddened" to learn that the termination of two officers involved in the arrests had been reversed.  Ivory Streeter and Mark Gardner were fired the day a...