Hartsfield News Archives

The Ex-DeKalb County sheriff's deputy turned fugitive is now back in Georgia. Derrick Yancey arrived in Hartsfield-Jackson Airport Saturday evening in handcuffs.

Following the Atlanta airport's loss of flights to China just a little more than a year after they began, general manager Ben DeCosta says business leaders and the government should consider whether to offer incentives for key international flights.

Presbyterian Homes Celebrates 60 Years of Service! - Presbyterian Homes of Georgia celebrates its 60th Anniversary of serving senior adults.

Several areas of metro Atlanta were impacted by flooding Monday. Below is a county-by-county update.

The big plane sitting on the tarmac at Knoxville's airport didn't set out to land there.

A year ago Georgia was begging for rain, and now it seems the rain won't stop. The wet weather is far from over, the National Weather Service said Saturday.

A record-setting rainfall Saturday dumped more than five inches of water in some areas of the metro area, flooding houses and floating cars in at least one neighborhood.

Candidates for mayor of Atlanta spoke about everything from the prospect of a second airport to making downtown more attractive for businesses during a Thursday luncheon with airport-area business leaders.

Officials at Piedmont Hospital say they have run out of seasonal flu vaccine for its employees.

Atlanta mayoral candidate Kasim Reed finished off a state Capitol rally on Thursday by warning John Oxendine, the Republican candidate for governor, that this talk of a new connector through east Atlanta is "improbable" and a "budget-buster" that would wreck the state's credit rating.

Deaths reported to The Moultrie Observer on Friday, Sept. 11, 2009, include Edwin D. Baldree, 84, of Hartsfield; Carl V. Carter, 64, of Adel; Betty Sue Cravey Holloway, 63, of Moultrie; and Jarvis J. Gafford Jr., 83, of Moultrie.

We've already got historians taking issue with state Sen. David Adelman's assertion this afternoon that _ if elected, of course _ Kasim Reed would be the first mayor of Atlanta to have served in the state Legislature.

W. Fred Mills was a professor of trumpet and brass chamber music in UGA's Hugh Hodgson School of Music.

University of Georgia music professor Fred Mills, a Grammy nominee who made numerous records as a trumpeter with the Canadian Brass quintet and performed with numerous orchestras, has died after a highway accident.

Internationally known University of Georgia music professor W. Fred Mills died after a car crash Monday night, reportedly while returning from Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport near Atlanta.

If running a coffee shop can bring redemption and healing, Sean Lupton-Smith hopes to find both at Cafe Nineteen.

You'll recall that John Oxendine, the state insurance commissioner, has been taking some heat for suggesting that we look at building a new traffic pipeline through east Atlanta, parallel to the Downtown Connector.