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ATLANTA- Attorney General Chris Carr is advising consumers who are buying used cars to be wary of vehicles that might have suffered flood damage as the result of Hurricane Ida. Flood-damaged vehicles are often sold at auction and then wind up on used car lots. Sometimes the vehicle's title will indicate "salvage" or "totaled," but sometimes the vehicle is retitled...
The deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history occurred 75 years ago in 1946 when the Winecoff Hotel in downtown Atlanta burned, costing 119 people their lives. Two men who were at the fire, but never knew each other before, recently met in Jackson and shared their experiences. Walter "Sonny" Mayfield, 87, of Decatur, was a 12-year-old Boy Scout helping firefighters at the fire. Albert "Sonny" Welby, 73, of Monticello, is known as the youngest survivor of the fire as his mother was two to three months pregnant with him and staying at the Winecoff at the time of the fire. Mayfield and Welby met thro...